[Freedombox-discuss] The Freedombox Economy
- Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] The Freedombox Economy
- From: seb35wikipedia@gmail.com (Seb35)
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:39:41 +0200
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(First post here, hi! :)
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:05:07 +0200, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On 25 September 2011 15:58, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 11:07:35AM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>> Just a crazy thought:
>>>
>>> Why not create a bitcoin derivative and put it on the freedombox
>>> (perhaps also with opentransactions as glue)
>>
>> There is no reason to not allow a nonmining bitcoin client on
>> the system to be on the standard depository, at least as an
>> installable option (bitcoin clients needs both storage and network
>> bandwidth even when nonmining, so activating it by default
>> would not a good idea).
> The current client is non mining by default.
> Just to be clear the proposal is not to use bitcoins themselves but to
> create a fork specifically for FBX. All bitcoin chains start with the
> number "1" ... however the derivatives could start with, say FBX. And
> the rules of the system could be tweaked appropriately according in
> the fork. Other projects such as solid coin have taken this approach.
> B/W IS an issue. But the proposal is to leverage the mass power of
> the FBX network essentially with an aim of reducing hardware cost
> (hopefully to zero!) thereby achieving mass penetration.
In the domain of alternative moneys you could visit the really interesting
site <http://www.creationmonetaire.info> (in French) which is talking
about bitcoins, free and unfree moneys, citizen?s dividend/basic income
guarantee and other related things.
I think also it could be valuable to put an alternative money in the
Freedom Boxes.
S?bastien
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