Category: Currency

Sperimentare circuiti monetari complementari. Il progetto europeo D-Cent – di Gabriele Toccaceli
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Link to the original article: http://effimera.org/sperimentare-circuiti-monetari-complementari-il-progetto-europeo-d-cent-di-gabriele-toccaceli

L’articolo che qui pubblichiamo contribuisce ad approfondire alcuni aspetti dei circuiti di moneta complementare che sfruttano le più recenti tecnologie riconoscendo al contempo la necessità di evitare che le regole relative all’emissione monetaria siano risolte senza una discussione politica bottom-up. Sono aspetti emersi nel convegno sulla Moneta del Comune tenutosi a Milano il 21 e 22 giugno 2014 (i cui atti sono stati pubblicati da Alfabeta in collaborazione con Derive/Approdi) come anche più di recente, il 3 e 4 ottobre scorso, nel convegno organizzato da Effimera “Sovvertire l’infelicità”. Read more +

On Freecoin, Blockchains and the future of money: an interview with Jaromil
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Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website. 

Denis Rojo aka Jaromil

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Denis Roio (aka Jaromil) is a researcher in philosophy of technology, artist and software artisan whose creations are endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. He has been involved in Bitcoin since the early days and since 2000 he has been dedicated to building Dyne.org, a software house gathering the contributions of a growing number of developers who value social responsibility above profit.

Jaromil is leading D-CENT development of Freecoin, a blockchain-enabled digital social currency and has been invited at the reinvent.money event on the 26th of September by organiser Paul Buitink to explore the opportunities of Bitcoin beyond its function as currency.

 

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Digital identity ecosystems in the context of Big data and mass surveillance
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Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.

During the last few years, the internet economy has been mainly developing using a business model that offers services for free to the end users, but at the same time creates profits by mining, aggregating, and selling personal and social data for commercial and surveillance purposes. Therefore, the lives of internet users are continuously electronically tracked, analysed, clustered and segmented in profiles and graphs: personal data as a commodity for the “markets of identity“, with large implications on the users’ privacy and the rights related to personal data. Read more +

In conversation with Evgeny Morozov on big data, identity and the Silicon Valley hegemony
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Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.

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Historian of technology, author and editor at journals such as the Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and the Financial Times, and of books such as The Net Delusion: the dark side of Internet freedom, To Save Everything, Click Here, and Le mirage numerique soon out in France. Evgeny Morozov talks about why it is important to go beyond the concept of the Internet in order to understand what Identity means in the current digital world; by politicizing the debate over the future of technology and infrastructures Morozov starts shedding a political and ethical dimension to data use and data sharing.

 

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The D-CENT Freecoin Toolchain
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Writer: Marco Sachy, Dyne.org

The experimentation on the Digital Social Currency Pilots in D-CENT can be conceived as an open-source approach to decentralized complementary currency design, which becomes ever more relevant where pilot communities are already actively designing tools for collective engagement and decision making on monetary economic matters affecting their communities.

D-CENT is going to prototype the Freecoin Toolchain as a set of features that are apt to advance the state-of-the-art in two domains of social innovation: complementary currencies governance systems and decentralized trust management systems.

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Interview: Denis “Jaromil” Roio
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Denis Roio, also known as Jaromil, is a researcher in philosophy of technology and a software artisan. His creations are recommended by the Free Software Foundation and redistributed worldwide. Since 2000 Jaromil has dedicated to build Dyne.org, a software house gathering the contributions of a growing number of developers who value social responsibility above profit. Dyne.org is also a partner in the D-CENT project.

“The digital money of the 21st century is definitely not going to be a number in a database of a bank. It’s going to be a blockchain, triple-signed ledger that more people can have in custody. Hopefully it also involves the creation of new forms of institutions that can re-establish the trust towards value circulation – the same trust that banks have lost today”, states Denis Roio.

D-CENT interview: Denis Jaromil Roio from D-CENT on Vimeo.

Join us at FutureFest
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FutureFest is almost here! The upcoming weekend in London is full of immersive experiences, compelling performances and radical speakers to explore and challenge perceptions of the future. On Sunday 15th of March, D-CENT is hosting two panels: one on the future of political parties and another on the future of money. Join us, there’s still tickets for Sunday!

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Interview: Marco Sachy
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Marco Sachy is the currency designer of the Dyne.org foundation, Ph.D Candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Leicester School of Management. His research focuses on the nature of money, currency design and banking engineering in order to proactively expand the representational horizon and the modes of conducting the bottom-up resistance against the unfolding violence of financial capitalism.

Sachy works for Dyne.org in the D-CENT project doing research on Social Crypto Currencies and geo-localized market places.

D-CENT interview: Marco Sachy from D-CENT on Vimeo.

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