Comments on: Book of the Day: The Lost Science of Money https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-the-lost-science-of-money/2012/12/09 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:12:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Tom Crowl https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-the-lost-science-of-money/2012/12/09/comment-page-1#comment-494887 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:19:44 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=28097#comment-494887 I never proof-read enough… I’d insert the phrase “in those same currencies” following “P2P transaction network”… resulting in the now flawless line:

The path to opening this up is via a NON-financial-services-owned (nor corporate, nor government owned) P2P transaction network in those same currencies which can accommodate a greater filed of possibilities for human inter-change.

]]> By: Tom Crowl https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-the-lost-science-of-money/2012/12/09/comment-page-1#comment-494886 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:14:25 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=28097#comment-494886 No easy solutions… BUT… I’ve been pushing the idea of giving this a shot:

SINCE we are bound… and the current globalization model depends on… our NEED to believe in the same currencies our neighbors also depend on. I’ve been asserting that the path to opening this up is via a NON-financial-services-owned (nor corporate, nor government owned) P2P transaction network which can accommodate a greater filed of possibilities for human inter-change.

No… this doesn’t fix the world all at once… but I believe its a pre-requisite… along with an online viable microtransaction, which co-incidentally can catalyze the network referred to above.

The method and model is ready.

]]> By: Matthew Slater https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/book-of-the-day-the-lost-science-of-money/2012/12/09/comment-page-1#comment-494872 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 01:48:09 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=28097#comment-494872 True that this book doesn’t offer a strategy or a P2P solution, but it really really helps to hear how the two main kinds of money, valuable commodity money, and worthless accounting units have interacted through history, taking many forms and having many effects.
I loved this book.

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