Re: Why is local currency good or bad or neither?

2003-10-31 Thread Burns, Erik
this also reminds me of the internet currencies created during the dotcom boom (i.e. flooz & beenz) and also of "e-gold" (which is still around: www.e-gold.com), all of which use tokens rather than dollars (which are tokens too). these always seemed to me to be ADDING a step to transactions rather

Re: Why is local currency good or bad or neither?

2003-10-30 Thread Burns, Erik
here's a good introduction to local currency systems. http://www.transaction.net/money/ etb -Original Message- From: ArmChair List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Susan Hogarth Sent: quinta-feira, 30 de Outubro de 2003 20:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why is local currency go