[p2p-research] Distributed Currency Standards

[Michel Bauwens]

Sam,

but isn't that what the metacurrency project is working in, i.e. precisely
such standards?


see:


"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://p2pfoundation.net/Metacurrency_Project?title=Open_Identity&action=edit&redlink=1>:
   Create, manage and own your identity in a trustworthy manner, independent of
   any central authority.


   - Open Rules <http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Rules>: Know the rules of any
   currency you participate in and see when they change.


   - Open Transport<http://p2pfoundation.net/Metacurrency_Project?title=Open_Transport&action=edit&redlink=1>:
   A protocol to enable a participant to transact with any other participant
   and a currency to interact with any other currency.


   - Open Data <http://p2pfoundation.net/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.)"

(http://www.metacurrency.org/)


On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:20 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.
>
>
>
> --
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>
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> ambition." - Carl Sagan
>



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