Local Money and Liquidity Saving • Easy There Entropy
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A short review of some types of local money systems, with a focus on their potential as liquidity saving mechanisms via credit clearing.
Local Money Systems As you may know, I'm quite enchanted with the idea of local money systems - money designed to facilitate local economic organization and trade. There's a nice overview in Bernard Lietar's Creating Wealth . I think they're the best application of blockchain tech and the best hope for a sustainable civilization. I expect that progress in blockchain tech and tokenomic primitives (like bonding curves ) will revolutionize the field of Optimum Currency Areas and paint a path towards a more sustainable theory of international monetary economics grounded in self-sufficient local ec
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