Collection Agency: A More Inconspicuous Coin Category

A Generous Grift: Museums, Finance Capital, and the Clash of Cultural Workers and Collector-Trustees — The Lab

A Generous Grift: Museums, Finance Capital, and the Clash of Cultural Workers and Collector-Trustees

Ceptr & Holochain - Currencies of Social Coherence. Holography and Distributed Hash Tables vs. Consensus Bottlenecks in Monolithic Blockchains.

“Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about science fiction and money is the different kinds of currencies that are imagined for future worlds: the poscreds of Philip K. Dick’s Ubik, a currency required for every minute transaction such that the door becomes not an item you own but, rather, a provider of services for which you must continually pay, leaving protagonist Joe Chip trapped in his own apartment until someone pays his door to open; the bars of gold-pressed latinum used by the avaricious Ferengi on Star Trek, the only thing that cannot be replicated in this post-scarcity world, useless other than as an atavistic marker of wealth; the reputation- based currency of whuffie in Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, used to replace the social role money plays in creating a hierarchy in another post-scarcity world.

On the immaturity of tokenized value capture mechanisms

Pursuing value in an age of borderless-ness, experimental monetary policies, costless forks and unlimited innovation.

Stablecoins, Tokens, and Global Dominance

Technology is reshaping capital flows and currency dominance; data integrity is essential for financial stability

The New currency landscape

author: Eric Harris-Braun

Designing Collections

A new way to share and discover accounts on Mastodon

Inside Design Tokens: The Three Class Token Society

Design tokens are often grouped based on their phenomenal reference sequence. From basic, over semantic to component tokens. This article compares this organization with a model based architecture and figures out the advantages and disadvantages.

On the Mental Accounting of Restricted-Use Funds: How Gift Cards Change What People Purchase

Abstract. This article emphasizes the role of categorization in mental accounting and proposes that once a mental account is established, purchases that ar

A gentle introduction to digital tokens – Bits on Blocks

A gentle introduction to digital tokens for business people and students. One of the most popular articles on the Bits on Blocks blog.

Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods

An era of global protocols requires a visionary redefinition of public goods, in service of others.

Robin Hood mit Cash-Tracker: ARD, ZDF und die Spar-Challenge - DWDL.de

Discount-Einkauf, Gemüse-Anbau und Basar-Disziplin: Mit Begeisterung zeigen ARD und ZDF ihrem Publikum in Spar-Reportagen, wie sich im Alltag Kosten reduzieren lassen. Peer Schader testet, was passiert, wenn man die Empfehlungen der Sender auf sie selbst anwendet.

Families' Use of Payment Instruments During a Decade of Change in the U.S. Payment System

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

Stellar | Together We Can - A Decentralized Vision for Financial Inclusion

In this post, our contribution to Financial Inclusion Week organized by the Center For Financial Inclusion @ Accion, we’ll share SDF’s vision for achieving financial inclusion globally.We’ll do this by first outlining how we define financial inclusion, wh