Links

Our GEO Presentations

• GEO Currency Introduction — a 15-minute PowerPoint summary of the full Soul of Money presentation: types of money, roles of complementary currencies, types of dollars, types of GEO.
• GEO Introduction — Short — a 3-minute introduction telling why we created the GEO, without the details. Designed for those with less time.
• The Soul of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity — the full 3-hour version: money theory, archetypal psychology of money, effects of money types on women and the Divine Feminine, demurrage, complementary currencies, and more. Also viewable on this site or on Dropbox.
• GGCurrency Proposal Document — the principles behind the implementation of this currency (download from Dropbox).

The Google Drive presentations are best downloaded and viewed as a slide show in PowerPoint rather than in the Drive preview. If you need a free PowerPoint viewer, get one here.

Money and Its Nature

• A Brief History of Money — a slide show from the University of Nicosia’s Digital Currencies course. More lessons on our Digital Currency Course page.
• Hidden Secrets of Money — a great series about the past and current YANG money system (says nothing about Yin currency systems) by investor and gold bug Mike Maloney: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (The Biggest Scam in the History of Mankind), Part 5 (The Rise of Dictators via Economic Crises), Part 6 (End of USA Dominance).
• Power vs Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior — David Hawkins, PhD.
• Bernard Lietaer’s website (archived).

Complementary Currencies

• Community Exchange System
• REconomy: Alternative Means of Exchange (archived).
• Bernard Lietaer, The Future of Money — slide presentation with transcript; also the full book.
• Balancing mutual credit and parity systems: Introducing the Talent and Mutual Credit for the 21st Century.
• Qoin — implements, manages and supports community currencies around the world.
• TERRA — the Trade Reference Currency.

LETS — Local Exchange Trading Systems

• LETS-Linkup international directory (archived)
• UNILETS (archived)
• On LETS — from the Complementary Currency Library (archived)

The Swiss WIR

• Our page on the WIR — 80 years of stability no one knows about.
• WIR Bank profile (archived).
• The Macro Stability of Swiss WIR Bank Spending: Balance, Velocity and Leverage (April 2012) — James Stodder (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Bernard Lietaer (Univ. California Berkeley). Since 1934 the WIR Bank has issued its own reciprocal credits, not backed by Swiss Francs; turnover in WIR credits is shown to be highly counter-cyclical — firms are cash-short in a recession, and economize by greater use of WIR.

Cryptocurrencies

• Free online course DFIN-511: Introduction to Digital Currencies from a Master’s Degree program in Digital Currencies — see the lessons from this course on our site.
• James Corbett on Bitcoin — alternative currencies, and the need for an integrated new currency system.
• Andreas Antonopoulos — The Future of Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin

• Bitcoin Basics (Part 1) — Explained For Beginners
• How Bitcoin Works Under the Hood
• How Bitcoin Works in 5 Minutes
• “Colored Coins” — Bitcoin 2.0 (archived)
• Blockstream

Ethereum

• The Ethereum blog
• Ethereum: A Secure Decentralised Generalised Transaction Ledger (the “Yellow Paper”, archived)
• DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide

Ripple

• Ripple Primer (archived)
• Ripple Executive Summary for Financial Institutions (archived)
• The purpose of money is to record value across a network of people (archived)
• Ripple Consensus Whitepaper
• Wired: New Digital Currency Aims to Unite Every Money System on Earth
• Codius — smart contracts on Ripple.

Currencies with Intrinsic Value

• Aurum: A New Way to Hold Gold (Peak Prosperity podcast, archived) and What is an Aurum? (archived)
• Dan El Trade Notes (archived)
• Shire Silver (archived)
• Brixton Pound — including its pay-by-SMS system like in East Africa (archived).

If you have some good currency links which we should post here for our readers, please pass them on to us.