[p2p-research] discussing money on ning

[Kevin Carson]

This is another forwarded message from Michel that the list bounced

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sepp Hasslberger <sepp at lastrega.com>
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:59:34 +0100
Subject: Re: [p2p-research] discussing money on ning
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.
>
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