Cryptocurrencies: Designing Alternatives

By Shumi Szumacher, March 27, 2014

The late afternoon session on Saturday was dedicated to the theme of “Designing Alternatives”. Matthew Slater, a software activist from the UK, introduced the prototype of an online platform implementing the crypto currency payment method. Slater has been building an open-source mutual credit system for five years now. As co-founder of Swiss NGO Community Forge [...]