[p2p-research] Request: Peer to Peer and Human Evolution

[Michel Bauwens]

at least in many countries in western europe, complementary currencies are
tolerated, and they pay taxes, so they do not seem to be seen as a threat by
states,

on the contrary, there is support by regional german state governments,
there is a EU funded pilot in Ghent for implementing a WIR like b2b currency
(with planned deployment in other countries if successfull)/ there are
hundreds if not more LETS and other projects that are functioning without
interference

there are also many state-tolerated if not supported currency initiatives in
Latin American, and here in Thailand the government has equally learned to
accept formerly repressed local currencies

recent interventions in the U.S. were clearly related to demonstrated
massive violations regarding whitewashing of criminal money, as far as I
understand,




On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 07:09:54PM -0600, Kevin Carson wrote:
>
> > OTOH, one of the benefits of the emerging network society is its
> > opacity to the state, and its ability to function outside the
>
> Very few activities are truly opaque to the state these days,
> unfortunately. The trend is up, way up.
>
> > regulatory framework that creates artificial scarcity.  I see a
> > darknet economy of networked, encrypted currency transactions, in
>
> It could be only an economy which operates on the slack that
> the state has left. Even so the state so far has been extremely suspicious
> about e.g. unregulated monetary transactions, and tended to
> treat them as if they were criminal.
>
> > which patents and copyrights are ignored, and with its own
>
> Bits yes, atoms no. Since readily inspectable, and difficult
> to hide.
>
> > certification and authenticating mechanisms, as the basis for the
> > post-state society.
>
> So far there are preciously few such institutions. OpenCA comes
> to mind, which is pretty obscure.
>
>
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