[p2p-research] Distributed Currency Standards

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

http://metacurrency.org/  ?

short video presentation :

http://ow.ly/koQg

Welcome to the Metacurrency Project

We are building platforms and protocols necessary for an open source
economy. This requires new technology capacities which need to function in a
non-monopolizable manner.


   - Open Identity:<http://metacurrency.org/content/metacurrency-principles#open-identity>Create,
manage and own your identity in a trustworthy manner, independent of
   any central authority.
   - Open Rules:<http://metacurrency.org/content/metacurrency-principles#open-rules>Know
the rules of any currency you participate in and see when they change.



   - Open Transport:<http://metacurrency.org/content/metacurrency-principles#open-transport>A
protocol to enable a participant to transact with any other
participant
   and a currency to interact with any other currency.
   - Open Data:<http://metacurrency.org/content/metacurrency-principles#open-data>The
ability to share, decentralize and distribute data (like your account
   balance) and ensure its integrity and privacy… also, to allow you to be a
   reliable authority of your own data. (You can represent your own accounts,
   and I can validate your data.)



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and collaborate with ... ?

http://geekgene.com

*Alternative Currencies:*
We build systems to shape healthy flows of resources and participation for
businesses and communities. ...

http://www.artbrock.com/


On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Matt Boggs<matt at digiblade.com> wrote:
> > ·         Michel: I will indeed add/use P2P explicitly in my project
> name,
> > to indicate the linkage. Why would I not? J Also, regarding eCars; we
> have a
> > full time master mechanic in house that will be converting
> generators\cars
> > to run on biodiesel as well as DIY workshops. While electricity is the
> way
> > to go, it is too new for most people. We will experiment with fuel
> > cell\battery technology eventually. Our next door neighbor is Car-Go
> Battery
> > (http://car-gobattery.com/) and they seem very open to our goals. I like
> the
> > term ‘Godfather’ or better yet, 10 godfathers !
> >
> >
> >
> > ·         Nathan Cravens: I did look at Kew Bridge Eco Village.
> Interesting,
> > but, indeed spontaneous and therefore possibly unstable. I await your
> report
> > upon visiting the facility. Also, I like this quote you made to Sam Rose:
> ‘A
> > global effort might be useful for what Paul referred to as
> >
> > "stigmergic" development in another thread.   Model p2p money software
> >
> > might be designed to be adopted by any local network that wanted to
> >
> > use it, and to be built on a modular basis.’ I think this to be the type
> of
> > mind shifting path to P2P emergence to the masses.
> >
> >
>
>
> I agree with the premise of what Nathan and Matt are stating here.
>
> Perhaps we could use this thread as a launching point to create a
> standard for distributed alternative currencies? So that, in any web
> application, in any email list, anywhere online (including via sms, or
> even devices like networked controllers) it is possible to securely
> profile data, track origins, revisions, etc when appropriate, of an
> alternative currency.
>
> I think that an open digital currency standard could be realtively
> simple and straight forward to start out with. It should be based on
> the principles of plurality (many ways to interact with the same
> thing) applied to diversity (many ways to interact among any different
> things)
>
> At minimum, a distributed digital currency object should have the
> following metadata:
>
> - A unique id
>
> - An way to identify the entity that issued the currency
>
> - A way to query the object via http as a networked data object
> (currency objects have URI's)
>
> - The spec has ways to build URI based on local domain, so that URI
> contains the unique id.
>
> The idea is that I want to make it really easy to start a local
> currency, but that I want to do it in a way that makes an
> explosion/proliferation of currencies not be an issue, because they
> work together by default. And, the spec that makes them work together
> is really simple and minimal and as non-constrained as possible
>
> This would also allow other parties to build value tracking, and other
> systems on top of the data standard.
>
>
>
> --
> --
> Sam Rose
> Social Synergy
> Tel:+1(517) 639-1552
> Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451
> skype: samuelrose
> email: samuel.rose at gmail.com
> http://socialsynergyweb.com
> http://socialsynergyweb.org/culturing
> http://flowsbook.panarchy.com/
> http://socialmediaclassroom.com
> http://localfoodsystems.org
> http://notanemployee.net
> http://communitywiki.org
>
> "The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human
> ambition." - Carl Sagan
>
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