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The Metacurrency Project is building open source platforms for the next economy. As co-founder, Arthur is committed building a rich ecosystem of digital currencies to enable quantum leaps in cooperation and value-sharing. Arthur builds targeted currencies that are at the core of the emerging post-industrial economy. He has created more than 100 designs for multi-currency systems and his software company has built and deployed dozens of those systems. Arthur enjoys solving problems large and small. The tr...
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New Currency Frontiers: March 2010
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Tapping into the power of currencies as part of the language of living systems. Thursday, March 4, 2010. Beyond Quid Pro Quo. Game But, is the quid pro quo. Game the most efficient way of allocating resources? Gift economies come in many forms, but usually what we mean by a “gift” is when quid. Is less tied to quo. Clearly, this is a matter of degree as there are many possible social contracts around gifts. When you are dealing with people who aren’t as close to you, the quid pro quo. Game comes more int...
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New Currency Frontiers: April 2011
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Tapping into the power of currencies as part of the language of living systems. Sunday, April 3, 2011. The Central Covenants of Successful Economies. Our commercial economy is headed for destruction. There are many contributing factors, but in the end it all boils down to the fact that we’ve broken the core covenants, contracts or agreements of successful economies. These rules exist for a reason and you can no more avoid them than you can the principles of mathematics or the laws of physics. These may j...
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Skip to main content. Links to Metacurrency Resources. Our New Currency Frontiers Shared Blog. Our Ideas Web Site. With interactive tools for developing a currency pattern language and cataloging currencies according to their design principles. On Bettermeans.org. Log in and help us make MetaCurrency happen! A vision for currencies as an operating system for planet earth: OS-Earth. The Transitioner Ning Community. And The Transitioner Wiki. New Economy, New Wealth. By Arthur Brock on Prezi. RT @stunde: R...
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New Currency Frontiers: January 2010
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Tapping into the power of currencies as part of the language of living systems. Friday, January 8, 2010. The Future of “Open” Depends on Open Currency. I am going to make a bold claim. If we want the new modes of economic production we’ve seen thus far in the information age to become deeply ingrained in our cultural fabric, we must apply these modes of production to currency itself. I take as my starting point for this contention a recent post. For me, the principles embedded in the “open movement...
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New Currency Frontiers: Gift Transactions vs. Commercial Transactions
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Tapping into the power of currencies as part of the language of living systems. Monday, February 21, 2011. Gift Transactions vs. Commercial Transactions. Gift Economies are Alive and Well. Let’s illustrate this through a few examples. What does the sun charge for sunlight? What does nature charge for bringing rainfall to crops, or delivering drinking water through rivers, or for growing our food? What do bees charge for their pollination services? How far would our markets expand without the hillsides of...
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New Currency Frontiers: August 2011
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Tapping into the power of currencies as part of the language of living systems. Monday, August 29, 2011. Future trajectory for our species? I just contributed to the Human Project on Kickstarter, but I'd also like to open an inquiry here about the direction of our species that doesn't sound like it's included in their plans. But what would happen if humanity had a breakthrough in our capacities to do these kinds things together because of the advent of new kinds of "Social DNA? What if these breakthrough...
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New Currency Frontiers: July 2011
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Tapping into the power of currencies as part of the language of living systems. Thursday, July 21, 2011. The Deepest Importance of Currencies. The reason I blog is because there are not many people writing about the topic I'd most like to engage people in. Specifically, it is about currencies as social DNA. You see, corporations, institutions, governments, and nations are in fact. Living organisms. This is not a lofty metaphor, but literal truth. Until we learn to rewrite the DNA of these social organism...
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New Currency Frontiers: November 2009
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Tapping into the power of currencies as part of the language of living systems. Monday, November 16, 2009. On this blog we have spoken much about the design principles that underlie “Open Currencies.” However, there is an aspect of this we haven’t said much about, which I believe has significant implications for on-the-ground currency efforts. So let’s unpack how the principles of Open Currency would apply to the Point-of-Sale (POS). So what is the primary function of a POS device? Most currency projects...
