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Satoshi Nakamoto is a cryptographic genius who in 2007 began to design a system that could conceivably liberate the mass of humanity from the clutches of traditional centralized money systems and the controllers thereof.  (more)

The deep link between money and being is good news because human identity today is undergoing a profound metamorphosis. What kind of money will be consistent with the new self, the connected self, and a world in which we increasingly realize the truth of interconnectedness: that more for you is more for me? (more)

If there ever was a father of local currency it would be Paul Glover. In 1991 He started a local currency in Ithaca N.Y. called Ithaca Hours. It is the largest and longest running complementary currency in the country.  (more)

The time has come to splice biophilia into the DNA of a new kind of fiduciary responsibility that enables one million people to put 1% of their money into local food enterprises that support principles of soil fertility, sense of place, economic, cultural and ecological diversity, and nonviolence.  (more)

If the global economy were broken up into local units, would there be any need for national governments? Would it not make more sense for governments to scale down to the size of the economic units? The decentralization and democratization of the exchange process can only be achieved through traders establishing their own mutual credit clearing circles and independent private and community currencies. (more)