untitled - 3 views
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Just a decade ago, the idea of moving money that quickly and cheaply would have been ridiculous. Checks took ages to clear. Transferring money from one bank account to another could take days, as banks leisurely handed off funds, levying fees nearly every step of the way. Credit cards made it a little easier to pass money to a friend — provided that friend owned a credit card reader and didn’t mind paying a few percentage points in fees or waiting a couple of days for the payment to process.
New Currency Frontiers: Reputations - 6 views
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It's going to be a whaacy world out there!
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more about reputation...seems like a recurring theme...
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it's right after attention and trust on the list of dimensions of Value - incidentally these metacurrency project guys are looking at dimVals as being each represented by a currency, and then providing a currency exchange (which is transformation of value) a little different from the econ models i've been talking about but not much
Sacred Economics | Reality Sandwich - 2 views
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What we call deflation, an earlier culture might have called, "God abandoning the world." Money is disappearing, and with it a third property of spirit, the animating force of the human realm. At this writing, all over the world machines stand idle. Factories have ground to a halt, construction equipment sits derelict in the yard. Yet all the human and material inputs to operate them still exist. There is still fuel, there are still raw materials, and there are still human beings in abundance who know how to operate the machines. It is rather something immaterial, that animating spirit, which has fled. What has fled is money. That is the only thing missing, so insubstantial (in the form of electrons in computers) that it can hardly be said to exist at all, yet so powerful that without it, human productivity grinds to a halt. It is as if God had forsaken the world. Even beyond the mechanical realm, we can see the demotivating effects of lack of money. Consider the stereotype of the unemployed man, nearly broke, slouched in front of the TV in his undershirt, drinking a beer, hardly able to rise from his chair. Money, it seems, animates people as well as machines. Without it we are dispirited.
PaySwarm @ Digital Bazaar - 1 views
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PaySwarm enables people that create digital content to distribute it through the Web and receive payment directly from their fans and customers. It is also designed to help fans and customers distribute digital content on behalf of the content creators in a way that is both legal and financially beneficial to the creators, fans and customers. The technology is designed to be integrated directly into web devices, finally making legal digital content distribution a first-class citizen on the web.
Schrödinger's cash: Minting quantum money - physics-math - 20 April 2010 - Ne... - 3 views
L019: Bitcoin P2P Currency: The Most Dangerous Project We've Ever Seen - Laun... - 2 views
The Monetary Blind Spot by Bernard Lietaer - 2 views
The Death of Cash? Square's Personal iPhone Credit Card Reader | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views
New Economy, New Wealth by Arthur Brock on Prezi - 1 views
The End of Money and the Future of Civilization | Reality Sandwich - 3 views
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separation of money and the state
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Legal tender laws and banking regulations endow the banking cartel with the exclusive power to issue money (as debt), which we are forced to use (through legal tender laws)
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money evolved as a reaction to the inconveniences of barter.
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Dark Roasted Blend: Funny Money: Unusual and Fascinating Currency - 2 views
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Graphical Marvels, Forged Notes, Hyperinflation "Riches" and Propaganda Bed Sheets"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero." (Voltaire, 1694-1778)World's historical bank notes often provide the clearest and unique view on country's political and design sensibilities. For example, old Russian Empire bank notes were pretty elaborate and some of the largest in size:
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The world’s oldest known banknote The earliest recorded use of paper money is in China around 800 AD, although the Chinese abandoned paper money in the mid fifteenth century. This Chinese Kuan note is the world’s oldest known banknote, from around 1380.
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flattr - 2 views
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We aim to revolutionize how people pay and get paid for content on the internet. Come, join and show the world that good content is worth some coins out of your pocket.
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I went ahead and requested an invitation....
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http://payswarm.com/ is another micropayment system. For some reason, I'm unable to bookmark it in Diigo (failed with Chrome and Firefox). Someone else could try? Or explain why it fails? I already knew that Diigo has problems with annotations over PDF files. What's wrong with http://payswarm.com/ ?