Hello,
I've been working an another alternative currency project, Unmuni, for the last year. I was wondering if people here would be willing to give some suggestions about how to eventually decentralize the infrastructure. Currently Unmuni has a web wallet backed by a serverless AWS API and that's fine while we develop our governance model. It seems like a federated model is about the best we're going to get to have a extremely horizontal governance process, but if anyone has an examples of distributed governance that would be applicable to an alternative currency I would be very eager to hear about it.
Jiffies, the Unmuni currency have steep demurrage to prevent hording and help control supply. I haven't written a smart contract for Ethereum before, but I imagine given the ERC20 standard that it wouldn't be too horrible to move the Unmuni ledger onto that platform. I'd prefer to move to Tezos because of its better environmental footprint; it will probably mature quite a bit before I would be ready for it. I assume it would be challenging to implement continuous demurrage in a smart contract. I'd really appreciate thoughts on that.
Ripple related technologies are most dear to my heart. I'm assuming it doesn't make sense for a community project to try to use Ripple Lab's Ripple at this point, would you agree? It seems like Interledger is only useful after you already have some kind of ledger, right?
More info about Unmuni is at
https://www.unmuni.com. If anyone is interested in learning more about Unmuni specifics, I would be happy to chat off list.
Thanks,
Seth