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Michael Grube  
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 More options Oct 25 2012, 2:58 pm
From: Michael Grube <michael.gr...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:58:49 -0400
Local: Thurs, Oct 25 2012 2:58 pm
Subject: Re: Alternative Value Exchange. Anybody interested?
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Oh hey, I made an incomplete Wiki page.

http://wiki.allhandsactive.com/Value_Networks

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Michael Grube <michael.gr...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey All,

> As most of you are probably aware, alternative currency has been becoming
> a more and more popular topic in the last few years. I see people get
> excited about BitCoin and  other things, but nobody seems to have
> implemented a practical system for exchanging value with these alternative
> currencies. I guess there's an debit card coming out that's supposed to
> support bitcoins, but why settle for something so limited? BitCoin has its
> own problems.

> So it'd be nice if we could make a testbed for experimenting with
> different value exchange systems. It'd be even nicer if I had anybody to
> work on this with. I'm thinking we'd set up some kind of physical way to
> exchange value(maybe swipe cards or rfid tags or whatever) and an
> electronic system to track the exchanges being made.

> There is no better place to play with the future of economics than a
> makerspace.

> Mike


 
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