[p2p-research] Distributed Currency Standards

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Sam,

my impression as well, i.e. they want to have everything conceptually right,
and not sure if the process is iterative enough to be successfull at this
stage,

how can we get a status report on how far this has been evolving?

Michel

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > Dante, Michel,
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> > Definitely. I was just trying to start a discussion *here* within this
> > network about the specific topic of currency objects themselves. If
> > that is off topic here I will take it to metacurrency
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> Also, honestly, their design doc and system seem to me to be heading
> towards a very dense, and likely very complicated spec.
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> http://metacurrency.org/sites/metacurrency.org/files/docs/Design_for_a_Meta_Currency_Platform.pdf
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> My opinion is that this can be abstracted into simpler basic
> specifications. The dynamics they are trying to standardize (such as
> SGFL) are interesting, but are targetted in the end towards a limited
> group of people. It's not necessary to include all of this stuff into
> a spec for an distributed currency object (not that I am sure that
> this is what they are actually doing, but it seems to be the direction
> they are headed in).
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