Comments on: Cryptocurrencies and What They Mean for Sharing

By: Bob Haugen

Bob Haugen — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:50:27 +0000

What Karl said.

Unfortunately, we are in this transitional age. But while we are in this transitional age, I think alternative forms of money are a lot less important than thinking about de-monetization and how we get there.

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:14:06 +0000

In the “Money as Commons” video Michel raised the most important
issue which is de-monetization. Sadly, some of the other participants
didn’t want to hear anything about that and quickly brought the conversation
back to “accounting with money”.

IMO these people are fools since all forms of currency constitute a mechanism to decouple permission to control resources from actual reality. Once you’ve admitted to yourself that there can be any number of different forms of currency you have to also admit that you don’t actually need any at all. Why should anyone accept abstract forms of accounting when we can do concrete and accurate accounting? The abstract forms only play into the hands of those who want to
psychologically game others for their own benefit.

By: Alain Ambrosi

Alain Ambrosi — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:03:32 +0000

Thanks for this short and clear article.
Matthew is also one of the participants of a round table interview conducted by Michel Bauwens
Money as a communs at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5paen0ayI8&feature=player_embedded