<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sounds similar to how Disney Dollars (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_dollar" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/<u></u>wiki/Disney_dollar</a>) and other gift card / certificate systems work.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Quite similar. The key difference is that hackerspaces regularly provide goods and services to their members, so such a currency would have a more consistent value. I'd compare it more to grocery stores that have done similar things, backing currency based on their stocked goods.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Also, wouldn't having hackerspaces acting as hubs for cryptocurrency transfer and/or exchange obviate a good number of the anonymity aspects of such a system?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Depends. Mark's proposal and the one I described could both be done using anonymous paper or crypto currency, you'd just know that participants are part of a specific community. But you also have to ask when you want anonymity. Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin focus on solving problems that arise in the absence of trust. I'm more interested in currencies that help communities build trust, in which case you don't want anonymity. There's probably a place for both.</div><div><br></div><div>-Ed</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Edward L. Platt<div><a href="http://elplatt.com" target="_blank">http://elplatt.com</a></div><div><a href="http://civic.mit.edu/users/elplatt" target="_blank">http://civic.mit.edu/users/elplatt</a></div><div><a href="http://i3detroit.com" target="_blank">http://i3detroit.com</a></div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/elplatt" target="_blank">@elplatt</a></div><div><br></div><div>This electronic mail message was sent from my desktop personal computer. Please forgive any long-winded, overly-prosaic ramblings.</div></div></div>
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