CCG Chronicles #5 - The Credit Commons, Currency Design, and Totemomics

This episode is a continuation of the CCG Chronicles series which is a collection of interviews conducted during the Crypto Commons Gathering (CCG) in Austria back in August 2021. The interviews were also filmed to potentially be a part of a documentary I'm making with a few others.

I interviewed Matthew Slater, creator of the Credit Commons Protocol which is a mutual credit accounting software ( which does not use any blockchain). The Credit Commons Protocol allows for ledger to be recursively nested allowing trading blocs of all scales to exchange with each other without using money. This accounting is used commercially by business barter systems, and socially by LETS and time banks. Matthew has a lot of experience working with various types of communities look for alternatives to the traditional monetary / economic system without using crypto or a blockchain which he explains more on his personal site as well as in his Money & Society MOOC. We discuss some of his criticisms of the crypto space regarding tokenomics (or what he calls totemomics) as well as how his opinions shifted while attending the CCG.

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