[p2p-research] discussing money on ning

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear friends,

Sorry, I forgot in the excitement preceding my departure (plane leaves in
one hour now)

but yes indeed, we have two volunteer people who agreed to maintain the
list, Ryan Lanham and Kevin Carson, they truly saved the day, so thanks a
lot guys!!

Michel


On 3/17/09, Sepp Hasslberger <sepp at lastrega.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Michel, others,
>
> one effort that may fit into this is what Mark Herpel is doing. He is a
> supporter of gold backed digital currencies but open to other stuff
> including community currencies.
>
>
> In reply to a recent post of mine on the openmoney ning group, he said he
> had established a new magazine for reporting on community currencies.
>
>
> Here is my ning post:
>
>
> http://openmoney.ning.com/forum/topics/scec-italian-complementary?page=1
>
>
> Mark gives a link to his new Community Currency magazine (and email where
> he can be reached) in comments to that one.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Sepp
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  On 17/mar/09, at 03:02, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> I've been saying the same thing for a while, and one of my dreams with
> p2p-f is to host a global conference where open money architects can discuss
> their similarities and differencies, and agree on the common infrastructure
> that all of them need ...
>
> Is there any way to pull this of?
>
> Athina: any news on possible funding for the Assn. of P2P Researchers?
>
> Michel
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Kevin Carson <
> free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/13/09, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Dear Sepp,
>> >
>> > For a long time, I have been surprised on the slow uptake on
>> internet-based monetary systems, so unlike the steady adoption of cc's in
>> regional and urban settings ...
>> >
>>
>>
>> One reason is probably that local alternative barter systems tend to
>> be unique (in the sense that there's a dominant one in a particular
>> community, rather than a bunch of different ones constantly being
>> started and discontinued--not to mention not being mutually
>> incompatible), and to be stably identified with a particular
>> geographical area and set of businesses.  When it comes to Internet
>> currencies, OTOH, there are too many different efforts to reinvent the
>> wheel.  Not only are many of the people engaged in such efforts not
>> aware of each other, and not making their systems interoperable, but
>> there is no reason for public confidence in deciding to use one or the
>> other in the assumption that it will become the standard and be around
>> for a long time to come.  Only when this is all sorted out and there
>> is a single dominant network (or at least a common standard to which
>> all networks will conform in order to be compatible with other
>> networks), will it catch on.
>>
>> It seems to me the first order of business should be networking
>> between those engaged in creating internet-based currencies to work
>> out an agreement on the architecture, etc., so that they can coalesce
>> their efforts around some common system.
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Carson
>> Mutualist Blog:  Free Market Anti-Capitalism
>> http://mutualist.blogspot.com
>> Studies in Mutualist Political Economy
>> http://www.mutualist.org/id47.html
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