How to Print Dollars in Your Own Backyard and Keep Them Away from Wal-Mart
What if you used a different currency to buy a sandwich from your main street deli than you did to make a purchase at the Wal-Mart 10 miles outside town?
10 alternative currencies, from Bitcoin to BerkShares to sweat to laundry detergent
“Is there a reason for governments to be in charge of money?” asks Paul Kemp-Robertson in today’s talk. Judging by the new raft of alternative currencies—from digital coins to point systems that reward customers of a certain brand—the answer might someday be “no.” Again.