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Workshop game 'Trading floor'

published by matslats on Sun, 11/25/2012 - 14:45
This game is designed to show participants in workshops
  1. how trade is affected by the availability of money
  2. how outside control of the money supply may be counter productive to a local economy
  3. how money is separate from real value
  4. how using debt as money can obstruct the economy
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Rolling Jubilee - will it work?

published by matslats on Sat, 11/10/2012 - 11:47

The Rolling Jubilee campaign is raising money to buy up cheap debt and forgive it.

I wrote to them asking
1) Who will sell you debt for pennies on the dollar?
2) Who's debt will you buy?
3) Don't you think the price will go up if the campaign gets traction?
4) is there a way that we can buy the debt of people we care about?
5) By purchasing the debt, you legitimise it, and the whole system that created it.

Why not a campaign of solidarity and support for debtors and people who default?

Why bitcoin isn't enough.

published by matslats on Wed, 10/31/2012 - 23:05

Bitcoin is a super way for frictionless transactions and for disassociating ourselves from the fraud, waste, and centralised control of commercial credit and legal tender monies. Most techies working on monetary solutions seem to think that the ideal currency is a globally uniform, frictionless unit in which transactions are quickly settled, with anonymity an arguably desirable trait.

Cforge architecture

published by matslats on Thu, 09/20/2012 - 11:50
As part of some discussions with other projects, and while I'm upgrading the Cforge drupal distribution to Drupal 7, I'm posting a full description of the architecture here....

In hope that this installation profile may be of use to others, I write here a description of the architecture of this profile. My hope is always to make discreet, reusable components that other developers can modify or build on. The architecture is deliberately simple because my first interest is module development more than site design. Also LETS groups are not very ambitious with technology.

Where to start with credit clearing systems?

published by matslats on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 15:06
[draft of a page intended for Positive Money's web site]

So now you understand that national currency is toxic, and that banks profit from all the money in circulation. You've written to your MP and received the standard response - now what?

Legacy of 15M - Coop renewal

published by matslats on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 09:45

In my capacity of voluntary open-source-money-=system engineer, I just returned from a month deep research in Valencia and Catalona, Spain, the country allegedly next in line after stricken Greece, for the proverbial chop.

Transition bonds?

published by matslats on Mon, 06/18/2012 - 11:42

Transition Network aims to make necessary, large-scale, pervasive changes to the infrastructure of our civilisation and to our society while appealing for funds from charitable organisations and grant-making bodies, much as a donkey sanctuary might.

In a period of capital squeeze, small business, local businesses have less access to captial than ever, because the monetary runes dictate that large, asset stripping organisations make better investments than local, productive, resilient, enterprises.

A week in Transition

published by matslats on Fri, 06/15/2012 - 13:28

Had three very productive visits last week to actors in transition towns.

Coming soon... mutual_credit 7.x-3.0!

published by matslats on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 19:20

After 18 months developing (since Drupal 7 was released), I can't wait to put Community Accounting version 3 to reach production. The need for this software, I believe is more than ever, and awareness of it too, is growing. In four years dedication I've seen the competition fall away, and the main obstacles to implementing grass-roots exchange systems is no longer technical, but political. In Drupal 6 the following has been achieved:

rCredits

published by matslats on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 16:55

Common Good Finance is developing a set of open source tools for local communities to create liquidity and investment capital, backed by their own productivity. It is looking for local economic actors such as chambers of commerce or Transition Towns who are ready to update the way they do business.

Intro
Transition and the money system

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