Comments on: The Blockchain: A Promising New Infrastructure for Online Commons https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-blockchain-a-promising-new-infrastructure-for-online-commons/2015/03/12 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 21 Apr 2015 05:07:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: Kevin Carson https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-blockchain-a-promising-new-infrastructure-for-online-commons/2015/03/12/comment-page-1#comment-1157927 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 05:07:58 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=49050#comment-1157927 I found Hundt’s proposal for blockchain ledger accounting of energy transactions within a solar power network especially interesting.

Imagine using it, similarly, to track individual member debits and credits in one of Thomas Greco’s mutual credit-clearing networks.

Bitcoin itself is deflationary and specie-like, and prone to concentration and hoarding — and therefore predictably popular with right-libertarians. But its architecture might be used to make a more just and egalitarian currency system more secure in its operation.

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