Now four years old, Bitcoin is the celebrity of the complementary currencies world. It is currently trading at over $800 after two US senate committee fact-finding sessions heard last week. Political opinion is still divided, but for those investing … Read the rest
NEF Blog: Why Europe needs CCs

Time banking, business-to-business currencies, local payment schemes: community currencies such as these are rapidly rising to prominence in the wake of the financial crisis, in Europe and elsewhere.
NEF Research: Energising Money
An introduction to energy currencies and accounting.
Written by my future NEF colleagues Josh Ryan-Collins and Tony Greeham, and my colleague in Berlin at the time Ludwig Schuster.
Download the full PDF here.
Modern interest-bearing bank-debt money creates the … Read the rest

