https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dialstation-low-cost-radical-business-model-and-self-bank-for-the-poor/2007/05/04 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:40:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dialstation-low-cost-radical-business-model-and-self-bank-for-the-poor/2007/05/04/comment-page-1#comment-94921 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:40:18 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/dialstation-low-cost-radical-business-model-and-self-bank-for-the-poor/2007/05/04#comment-94921 […] Not all of us, but I do get the point. A heartbreaking number of indy ventures never get a chance to succeed or fail on their merits. They get drowned out in the roar over annoying gewgaws, trends and gimcracks. Same thing happens to people in the arts, for that matter. There’s a lack of the kind of sustained consideration that would at least give people who are taking a risk some feedback. Speaking of which. . . Hey, Jon! Michael Bauwens of P2P has written them up and there’s a post on them too from Phillip Smith, of Community Bandwidth. There’s also this interesting comment at neural.it: Telephone cards and vouchers have then become a sort of currency in remote places, being used as a payment currency instead of cash, which is often hard to transfer where bank accounts and Internet are not easily available. Thus money held in Dialstation accounts can be transfered between accounts using the voucher feature, available to all users, opening up the possibilities of being used for both market opportunities and gift economies. […]

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