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href=\"#involved\">Get Involved<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/nav>\n\n<header class=\"ggc-hero\" id=\"top\">\n  <div class=\"ggc-hero-blobs\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span><\/span><span><\/span><\/div>\n  <div class=\"shell ggc-hero-inner\">\n    <span class=\"ggc-hero-tag\">GEO &middot; A Complementary Currency System<\/span>\n    <h1 class=\"reveal is-visible\">There&#8217;s a simple solution to many of the world&#8217;s biggest problems <em>in a place you never thought to look<\/em><\/h1>\n    <p class=\"lead reveal is-visible r1\">Human psychology and behavior are affected by the very type of money we use. All nations currently use a type of money severely unbalanced toward the male, or Yang, side. History shows that by modifying the type of money system we use, we can shift from a paradigm of scarcity and control to one of freedom and prosperity.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"lead2 reveal is-visible r1\">Help us implement it.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"ggc-hero-ctas reveal is-visible r2\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/introduction\/\" class=\"btn btn-gold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the Introduction<\/a>\n      <a href=\"#idea\" class=\"btn btn-ghost\">Explore the Full Case<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-hero-stats reveal is-visible r3\">\n      <div class=\"stat\"><b>4,000+<\/b><span>Complementary Currencies Worldwide<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"stat\"><b>130x<\/b><span>W\u00f6rgl Circulation vs. National Money<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"stat\"><b>75%<\/b><span>Curitiba GDP Growth Advantage<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"stat\"><b>80 yrs<\/b><span>Swiss WIR Countercyclical Stability<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n<!-- CORE IDEA -->\n<section class=\"ggc-idea\" id=\"idea\">\n  <div class=\"shell-nrw\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">The Core Idea<\/span>\n      <h2>Not just a new currency &mdash; a whole new system<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"reveal r1\">Money is an agreement to use something as a medium of exchange. Based on how money systems affect the human psyche, they can be divided into <strong>Yang money types<\/strong> and <strong>Yin money types<\/strong>. All current national money is fiat currency, a Yang type, which tends to activate protection, hoarding, competition, scarcity, and control. Complementary currencies are usually Yin types, which activate cooperation, community, and abundance.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"reveal r1\">GGTrust proposes a system of Yin-type local currencies to increase local prosperity and community, alongside an international Yin-type currency that complements the current Yang fiat money system. We believe GEO can increase prosperity for those who use it, preserve freedom and privacy, encourage long-term thinking, and balance the cycles of global economics &mdash; while including the positive characteristics of Yang money, most characteristics of Yin money, and selected new opportunities from cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"ggc-idea-callout reveal r2\">\n      <p>&ldquo;GEO isn&#8217;t just a new currency. It is a whole new currency <em>system<\/em>. Let&#8217;s look at why we&#8217;d want a new system at all &mdash; instead of just the plain old pocket money we use today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-bio reveal r3\">\n      <div class=\"badge\">BL<\/div>\n      <p><strong>Dr. Bernard Lietaer<\/strong> &mdash; MIT-trained computer scientist, PhD economist, former central banker, architect of the Euro, successful currency trader, and past professor of International Finance at Louvain University and of Economics at the Sorbonne. His research into complementary currencies and archetypal psychology underlies much of this project&#8217;s thinking.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-jump reveal r3\">\n      <a href=\"#problem\">Where are we now? &darr;<\/a>\n      <a href=\"#money\">What is money? &darr;<\/a>\n      <a href=\"#archetypes\">How money shapes behavior &darr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- THE PROBLEM \/ PART I -->\n<section class=\"ggc-compare ggc-dark\" id=\"problem\">\n  <div class=\"shell-md\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Part I &middot; Where Are We Now?<\/span>\n      <h2>Our money system is broken<\/h2>\n      <p>It is skewed and dysfunctional. There is plenty of money in the world, but most of it sits still and never circulates.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-split reveal r1\">\n      <div>\n        <h3 style=\"color:#fff;\">The giant sucking sound<\/h3>\n        <p style=\"color:rgba(255,255,255,.72);font-size:.94rem;\">Our whole economy is set up to pull wealth out of local places and send it to the pockets and banks of the wealthy. Money spent on groceries flows to distant corporate headquarters, not the farm down the road. Colonial-era extraction never really stopped &mdash; it just changed uniforms.<\/p>\n        <p style=\"color:rgba(255,255,255,.72);font-size:.94rem;\">One question worth sitting with: if our monetary system were so good, why would people have spontaneously developed some <strong style=\"color:#fff;\">4,000+ local currency systems<\/strong> to complement it? If there were no persistent deficiencies in the current system, why would so many intended solutions emerge?<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div>\n        <h3 style=\"color:#fff;\">What if just one thing changed?<\/h3>\n        <ul class=\"ggc-list-check\">\n          <li><strong>Wealth stays in local communities<\/strong>, rather than being sucked up by cities and governments<\/li>\n          <li><strong>An increased sense of community and cooperation<\/strong><\/li>\n          <li><strong>Privacy<\/strong> in money transactions, without banks as a required intermediary<\/li>\n          <li><strong>Removal of governmental restrictions<\/strong> and interference in transactions<\/li>\n          <li><strong>Long-term thinking<\/strong> in economic decision-making, backed by real assets<\/li>\n          <li>Increased <strong>balance in the male-female dynamic<\/strong> in our societies<\/li>\n          <li>Many of the <strong>benefits of cryptocurrencies<\/strong>, like Bitcoin, without the speculation<\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- WHAT IS MONEY \/ PART II -->\n<section class=\"ggc-benefits\" id=\"money\">\n  <div class=\"shell\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Part II &middot; What Is Money?<\/span>\n      <h2>Money has taken many forms &mdash; currency is just the one that circulates<\/h2>\n      <p>An agreement to use something as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, and a store of value. US Dollars have lost 96% of their value in the last 100 years &mdash; not much of a store of value.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-timeline reveal r1\">\n      <div class=\"ggc-tl-item\"><span class=\"tag\">Commodity<\/span><div><h4>Cows, cowries, cigarettes<\/h4><p>The earliest pattern: start with a commodity everyone already values, and use it to exchange for anything else.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-tl-item\"><span class=\"tag\">Precious Metal<\/span><div><h4>Gold &amp; silver coinage<\/h4><p>Retained value for millennia &mdash; but precious metals have a strong tendency to migrate toward existing wealth.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-tl-item\"><span class=\"tag\">Representative<\/span><div><h4>Ostraca, warehouse receipts, silver certificates<\/h4><p>A token that represents a commodity held elsewhere &mdash; potshards for stored wheat in Dynastic Egypt, or a US Silver Certificate redeemable for real silver.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-tl-item\"><span class=\"tag\">Fiat<\/span><div><h4>Every national currency today<\/h4><p>Backed by nothing but government decree. Every fiat currency in history has eventually failed, typically within about 40 years.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-tl-item\"><span class=\"tag\">Yin-Type<\/span><div><h4>Bracteaten, ostraca, scrip<\/h4><p>Thin silver wafers used in the High Middle Ages, and grain receipts in Dynastic Egypt &mdash; both periods of unusual prosperity, health, and women&#8217;s rights.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-tl-item\"><span class=\"tag\">Electronic &amp; Crypto<\/span><div><h4>Bank ledgers, Bitcoin<\/h4><p>Most money today exists only as electronic entries. Cryptocurrency adds cryptographic security and a public ledger, but early versions favor speculation over stability.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-tl-item\"><span class=\"tag\">Complementary<\/span><div><h4>Over 4,000 in active use today<\/h4><p>Mutual credit systems, time\/dollar systems, scrip, and loyalty currencies (air miles, elder-care currencies in Japan) all coexist with national money to fill gaps it leaves behind.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-jump reveal r2\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/part-ii-what-is-money\/\">Read Part II in full &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- ARCHETYPES \/ PART III -->\n<section class=\"ggc-resources ggc-dark\" id=\"archetypes\">\n  <div class=\"shell\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Part III &middot; Archetypes of Money<\/span>\n      <h2>How a money system shapes human behavior<\/h2>\n      <p>Bernard Lietaer uses the Jungian concept of archetypes &mdash; recurring patterns of emotion and behavior observed across time and cultures &mdash; to explain how the type of money we use shapes the society around it.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-archgrid reveal r1\">\n      <div class=\"ggc-archcard\"><div class=\"glyph\">S<\/div><h4>Sovereign<\/h4><p>Integrates all the other archetypes into a whole self; the power to choose and rule over one&#8217;s own life.<\/p><span class=\"shadow\">Shadow: Tyrant \/ Weakling<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-archcard\"><div class=\"glyph\">W<\/div><h4>Warrior<\/h4><p>Discipline and protection &mdash; defends what needs defending, Yang energy activated to protect scarce currency.<\/p><span class=\"shadow\">Shadow: Sadist \/ Masochist<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-archcard\"><div class=\"glyph\">M<\/div><h4>Magician<\/h4><p>Knowledge and technology &mdash; the complex machinery of central banking and anti-counterfeiting.<\/p><span class=\"shadow\">Shadow: Apollonian \/ Dionysian<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-archcard\"><div class=\"glyph\">L<\/div><h4>Lover<\/h4><p>Beauty, empathy, and connectedness &mdash; the archetype current money leaves almost entirely inactive.<\/p><span class=\"shadow\">Shadow: Addict \/ Impotent<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-archcard\"><div class=\"glyph\">G<\/div><h4>Great Mother<\/h4><p>Abundance and provision &mdash; deeply repressed by scarce currency, its repression is a root of scarcity thinking.<\/p><span class=\"shadow\">Shadow: Greed \/ Fear of Scarcity<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal r2\" style=\"margin-top:3rem;margin-bottom:1.5rem;\">\n      <h3 style=\"color:#fff;font-size:1.3rem;\">Fear splits each archetype into two shadow polarities<\/h3>\n      <p>When an archetype is repressed rather than balanced, it expresses itself unconsciously through predictable behavior.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-tablewrap reveal r3\">\n      <table class=\"ggc-table\">\n        <thead><tr><th>Archetype<\/th><th>Yang Excess<\/th><th class=\"yin\">Yin Deficit<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n        <tbody>\n          <tr><td>Sovereign<\/td><td>Tyrant<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Weakling<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Warrior<\/td><td>Sadist<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Masochist<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Lover<\/td><td>Addict<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Impotent<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Magician<\/td><td>Apollo (hyper-rational)<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Dionysus (indiscriminate)<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Great Mother<\/td><td>Greed<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Fear of scarcity<\/td><\/tr>\n        <\/tbody>\n      <\/table>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"reveal r3\" style=\"text-align:center;color:rgba(255,255,255,.6);font-size:.9rem;max-width:700px;margin:1.5rem auto 0;\">All national money today activates the Sovereign, Warrior, and Magician &mdash; and leaves the Lover and Great Mother almost entirely dormant. Activating those two through a complementary Yin-type currency is the psychological mechanism behind everything GEO proposes.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- COMPARISON -->\n<section class=\"ggc-compare ggc-dark\" id=\"comparison\">\n  <div class=\"shell\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Yang Money vs. Yin Money<\/span>\n      <h2>Two very different types of money<\/h2>\n      <p>Every currency carries a character. Here&#8217;s how the money in your pocket today compares to a Yin-type currency like GEO.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-tablewrap reveal r1\">\n      <table class=\"ggc-table\">\n        <thead><tr><th>Characteristic<\/th><th>Yang Money (Today)<\/th><th class=\"yin\">Yin Money (GEO)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n        <tbody>\n          <tr><td>Scarcity<\/td><td>Precious and scarce<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Abundant<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Materials<\/td><td>Scarce metals<\/td><td class=\"yin\">More ordinary materials<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Status<\/td><td>Monopoly of currency &mdash; only one allowed<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Complementary currency, usually coexisting with hard money<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Interest<\/td><td>Earns interest<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Negative interest (demurrage)<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Ownership<\/td><td>Concentrates wealth in the hands of the elite<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Circulates among all of society<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Migration<\/td><td>Tends to leave the community, extracting wealth<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Stays in the community and recirculates<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Use in Trade<\/td><td>Long-distance trade, outside the local community<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Community trade &mdash; benefits relationships<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Type of Capital<\/td><td>Financial capital<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Social capital<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Store of Value<\/td><td>Store of value<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Tends to lose value over time<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Means of Exchange<\/td><td>Yes<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Yes<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Durability<\/td><td>High<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Low &mdash; frequently recollected and reissued<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Thinking Stimulated<\/td><td>Short term<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Long term<\/td><\/tr>\n          <tr><td>Archetypes Activated<\/td><td>Sovereign, Warrior, Magician<\/td><td class=\"yin\">Lover, Great Mother<\/td><\/tr>\n        <\/tbody>\n      <\/table>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- ECOSYSTEMS \/ PART IV -->\n<section class=\"ggc-idea\" id=\"ecosystems\">\n  <div class=\"shell-md\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Part IV &middot; Currency Ecosystems<\/span>\n      <h2>Efficiency vs. resilience<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"reveal r1\">A currency by itself is like a single tree on a plain &mdash; the first thing struck by lightning. Our current money system is like a plantation of pine trees: all the same type, all subject to the same strengths and weaknesses. A natural, healthy forest doesn&#8217;t develop only oak trees, or only orchids &mdash; each species has its niche, and diversity is what gives the whole system resilience. Bernard Lietaer&#8217;s research shows that the present money system is <strong>inherently structurally unstable<\/strong>: no matter how carefully regulators steer it, a monoculture currency system will eventually crash, just as a car with worn steering will eventually go off the road.<\/p>\n    <p class=\"reveal r1\">A sustainable economy contains several different types of money at once &mdash; Yin and Yang, crypto and physical, national and complementary and local. The GGCurrency system is designed to be exactly that kind of ecosystem, restoring the diversity that gives an economy the same resilience a rainforest has over a monoculture plantation.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"ggc-idea-callout reveal r2\">\n      <p>Switzerland actually runs two currencies at once: the famously stable Swiss Franc, and a complementary currency called the <strong>WIR<\/strong> that has quietly provided counter-cyclical stability for 80 years. Bernard Lietaer used this same principle to design the <strong>Terra Trade Reference Currency<\/strong>, an international currency backed by a basket of assets including oil, gold, and wheat, intended to do at the global level what the WIR does for Switzerland.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-jump reveal r3\">\n      <a href=\"#proven\">See the WIR case study &darr;<\/a>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/part-iv-currency-ecosystems\/\">Read Part IV in full &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- INTEREST & DEMURRAGE -->\n<section class=\"ggc-resources ggc-dark\" id=\"demurrage\">\n  <div class=\"shell-md\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Interest vs. Demurrage<\/span>\n      <h2>Two ways money can treat time<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-split reveal r1\">\n      <div>\n        <h3 style=\"color:#fff;\">Interest concentrates wealth upward<\/h3>\n        <p style=\"color:rgba(255,255,255,.7);font-size:.92rem;\">Interest is a fee charged by the owner for the use of money. But when a bank creates a loan, it creates the principal &mdash; never the interest owed on top of it. To pay that interest, borrowers must extract it from the wider economy. <strong style=\"color:#fff;\">The bottom 80% of households always pay net interest to the top 10%.<\/strong> It is one of the most consistent upward wealth transfers in any economy that uses it, which is part of why interest is prohibited outright in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious law.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div>\n        <h3 style=\"color:#fff;\">Demurrage is reverse interest<\/h3>\n        <p style=\"color:rgba(255,255,255,.7);font-size:.92rem;\">Demurrage &mdash; from the French word for &#8220;rust&#8221; &mdash; is a small usage fee charged to the holder of money, the way ancient Egyptian grain receipts lost a little value to spoilage and storage fees over time. It works like the childhood game of Hot Potato: nobody wants to be holding the currency when the fee comes due, so it keeps moving. <strong style=\"color:#fff;\">A demurrage-based currency in 1930s Austria circulated up to 130 times in 13 months<\/strong> &mdash; compared to roughly 8&ndash;10 times a year for ordinary national currency.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-idea-callout reveal r2\" style=\"background:rgba(255,255,255,.06);border-color:rgba(255,255,255,.1);\">\n      <p style=\"color:#fff;\">Because that currency circulated roughly 13&times; as fast, it functioned as roughly 13&times; as much money moving through the community &mdash; <strong>by the use of demurrage, it may be possible to increase the effective wealth of a community by more than ten times the original amount<\/strong>, just from this one small usage fee.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"reveal r3\" style=\"color:rgba(255,255,255,.65);font-size:.9rem;max-width:760px;margin:2rem auto 0;\">Demurrage also changes what people invest in. In an interest economy, a 5% annual rate erodes almost all of a long-term investment&#8217;s value over 100 years &mdash; so people rationally chase short-term returns. In a demurrage economy, the incentive flips: people invest in durable goods and long-lasting infrastructure instead of hoarding currency. Historians note that Dynastic Egypt and the High Middle Ages &mdash; both periods that used Yin-type demurrage currencies &mdash; were also periods of unusual prosperity, nutrition, and freedom for women. The wealth spent building Chartres Cathedral, for instance, is still the primary source of income sustaining that town today, nearly 1,000 years later.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- SOLUTIONS \/ PART V -->\n<section class=\"ggc-benefits\" id=\"solutions\">\n  <div class=\"shell\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Part V &middot; Solutions<\/span>\n      <h2>Assembling the pieces into a functioning system<\/h2>\n      <p>Nine design principles guide how GGCurrency is built.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-bgrid reveal r1\">\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\"><h4>A. Balance Yin &amp; Yang<\/h4><p>Create a system incorporating both Yang (financial capital) and Yin (social capital) currencies together.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\"><h4>B. Back It With Assets<\/h4><p>Back the currency with a basket of currencies, precious metals, and commodities &mdash; not debt.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\"><h4>C. Assets, Not Debt<\/h4><p>New currency is created by increasing real assets or crediting labor performed &mdash; never by issuing more debt.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\"><h4>D. Interchangeable Forms<\/h4><p>Digital, paper notes, share certificates, and local currencies &mdash; all convertible into one another.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\"><h4>E. Crypto Attributes<\/h4><p>Cheap, fast, and secure electronic transmission, built on Ethereum for conditional transfers and escrow.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\"><h4>F. A Trade Reference Currency<\/h4><p>A Terra-like international counter-cyclical currency to balance business cycles the way the Swiss WIR does.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\"><h4>G. Apply Demurrage<\/h4><p>At least on the Yin portion of the currency, to keep it circulating rather than being hoarded.<\/p><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\"><h4>H. Smart Exit Fees<\/h4><p>Small discounts to enter local currency, and a modest fee to convert back out, keeping value local.<\/p><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <p class=\"reveal r2\" style=\"text-align:center;color:var(--ink-soft);font-size:.9rem;max-width:700px;margin:2rem auto 0;\">A ninth principle balances the system: even though GEO is not a national currency, it is protected by a strong legal and cryptologic framework &mdash; activating the Warrior archetype so the beautiful, abundant Yin side of the system is matched by real security.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"ggc-jump reveal r2\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/part-v-solutions\/\">Read Part V in full &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- IMPLEMENTATION \/ PART VI -->\n<section class=\"ggc-compare ggc-dark\" id=\"implementation\">\n  <div class=\"shell-md\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Part VI &middot; Implementation<\/span>\n      <h2>Many currency forms, one coherent system<\/h2>\n      <p>Just as the US Dollar has operated as more than 20 different currency forms at once (Federal Reserve Notes, Treasury Notes, silver dollars, gold certificates, and more), GGCurrency is designed with several interchangeable forms for different purposes.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-accordion reveal r1\">\n      <details>\n        <summary>Cryptocurrency creation<\/summary>\n        <div class=\"body\">\n          <p>Shares are produced through cryptologic &#8220;mining,&#8221; which validates each transaction and builds a protected blockchain ledger &mdash; the same basic model used by Bitcoin. Other shares form an initial digital block representing GGT ownership. Ongoing mining is taxed to generate a pool of shares for those performing labor for the system. The system is intended to be built using Ethereum, which allows escrow functions, conditional transfers, and property transfers beyond what Bitcoin alone can do.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/details>\n      <details>\n        <summary>Paper, gold, and digital shares<\/summary>\n        <div class=\"body\">\n          <p>Paper share notes, gold-backed Aurum notes (thin gold layers sandwiched in polyester, in 1\/10th and 1\/20th gram denominations), and purely digital shares are all designed to be fungible and interchangeable, authenticated with anti-counterfeiting holograms and QR codes.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/details>\n      <details>\n        <summary>Local currencies &amp; artisanal coins<\/summary>\n        <div class=\"body\">\n          <p>Local communities can issue their own scrip, printed with local imagery, or authorize artisanal coins minted by local craftspeople &mdash; deliberately activating the Lover archetype through beauty as well as function. All are designed to be exchangeable back into the broader GGCurrency system.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/details>\n      <details>\n        <summary>Labor shares<\/summary>\n        <div class=\"body\">\n          <p>A tax on newly mined shares (and on the fee for converting local currency to national currency) funds a pool of shares that can be allocated directly for community labor &mdash; work validated and credited without needing to be denominated in national currency first.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/details>\n      <details>\n        <summary>Asset backing<\/summary>\n        <div class=\"body\">\n          <p>GGCurrency shares are intended to be backed by a diversified basket of real assets: major commodities (oil, copper, wheat, rice, corn), real property, intellectual property, energy production, forest land held for carbon credits, precious metals, and international currencies &mdash; deliberately spread across asset classes rather than concentrated in any single one, so that no single market swing can destabilize the currency&#8217;s value.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/details>\n      <details>\n        <summary>Trade Reference Currency &amp; countercyclical balance<\/summary>\n        <div class=\"body\">\n          <p>A Terra-style Trade Reference Currency, similar in function to the Swiss WIR, provides countercyclical balance at the international trade level &mdash; expanding when the broader economy contracts, and contracting again as it recovers.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/details>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-jump reveal r2\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/part-vi-implementation\/\">Read Part VI in full &rarr;<\/a>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/currency-system-structure\/\">System structure diagram &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- PROVEN ELSEWHERE -->\n<section class=\"ggc-proven\" id=\"proven\">\n  <div class=\"shell\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Not Theoretical<\/span>\n      <h2>Proven, documented, and already working elsewhere<\/h2>\n      <p>Complementary currencies aren&#8217;t a hypothetical &mdash; they have real, documented track records.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-pgrid reveal r1\">\n      <div class=\"ggc-pcard\">\n        <span class=\"yr\">Austria, 1932&ndash;33<\/span>\n        <h3>W&ouml;rgl<\/h3>\n        <p>Facing bankruptcy in the Great Depression, the mayor issued a local &#8220;stamp scrip&#8221; currency backed by the town&#8217;s tiny remaining fund. Because it lost a small percentage of value if not stamped monthly, no one wanted to hold it &mdash; so it moved.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"stat-row\">\n          <div><b>416&times;<\/b><span>Times spent in 13 mo.<\/span><\/div>\n          <div><b>~13&times;<\/b><span>More employment created<\/span><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <p>W\u00f6rgl repaved streets, rebuilt its water system, and built houses, a bridge, and a ski jump &mdash; before the Austrian central bank shut it down, precisely because it worked too well. Economist Irving Fisher concluded that &#8220;the correct application of stamp scrip would solve the depression crisis in the US in three weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n        <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/woergl-saved-the-economy-until-the-central-bank-found-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story &rarr;<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-pcard\">\n        <span class=\"yr\">Switzerland, 1934&ndash;present<\/span>\n        <h3>Swiss WIR<\/h3>\n        <p>An independent currency used alongside the Swiss Franc by businesses in construction, retail, hospitality, and manufacturing &mdash; created and &#8220;discreated&#8221; through loans, existing only in electronic trade accounts.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"stat-row\">\n          <div><b>1.5B<\/b><span>WIR exchanged \/ year<\/span><\/div>\n          <div><b>~2%<\/b><span>Of Swiss GDP<\/span><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <p>When business is slow and Swiss Francs are scarce, vendors accept WIR instead of discounting their goods &mdash; keeping businesses running through the low part of the cycle. When the economy strengthens, debts are paid off in WIR and the currency is &#8220;discreated.&#8221; Most economists have never even heard of it.<\/p>\n        <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/complementary-currencies\/ii-swiss-wir-80-years-of-stability-no-one-knows-about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story &rarr;<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-pcard\">\n        <span class=\"yr\">Curitiba, Brazil<\/span>\n        <h3>Bus Tokens &amp; Garbage<\/h3>\n        <p>Facing unmanageable favela garbage with no city budget to fix it, Mayor Jaime Lerner offered bus tokens for sorted garbage, and food parcels for recyclables &mdash; turning an abundant local resource (labor and produce) into working currency.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"stat-row\">\n          <div><b>+75%<\/b><span>GDP growth vs. state avg.<\/span><\/div>\n          <div><b>70%+<\/b><span>Of households participated<\/span><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <p>In one three-year span, over 100 schools traded 200 tons of garbage for 1.9 million notebooks, saving 1,200 trees a day in paper alone. Curitiba won the United Nations&#8217; highest environmental award in 1990.<\/p>\n        <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/curitiba-bus-tokens-and-garbage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story &rarr;<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- VISION \/ PURPOSE \/ ABOUT -->\n<section class=\"ggc-idea tight\" id=\"vision\">\n  <div class=\"shell\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-split\">\n      <div class=\"reveal\">\n        <span class=\"eyebrow\">Our Vision<\/span>\n        <h2 style=\"font-size:1.6rem;\">A balanced, self-regulating system of prosperity<\/h2>\n        <ul class=\"ggc-list-check\">\n          <li>We see the international monetary system evolving into a <strong>balanced, stable system of prosperity<\/strong>.<\/li>\n          <li>We see local and international Yin-type currencies increasing <strong>prosperity, community, cooperation, gender balance, and freedom<\/strong> for those who choose to use them.<\/li>\n          <li>We see our money as <strong>autonomous of government control<\/strong>, and impossible to inflate away.<\/li>\n          <li>We see a <strong>self-regulating system<\/strong> &mdash; a Disseminated Autonomous Organization &mdash; requiring little or no human manipulation.<\/li>\n          <li>We see support organizations, educational tool kits, and local clubs helping communities implement their own local currencies.<\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"reveal r1\">\n        <span class=\"eyebrow\">Our Purpose<\/span>\n        <h2 style=\"font-size:1.6rem;\">What the GGCurrency System is designed to be<\/h2>\n        <ul class=\"ggc-list-check\">\n          <li><strong>Autonomous<\/strong> &mdash; free from central bank or government manipulation<\/li>\n          <li><strong>Self-regulating<\/strong>, expanding and contracting with demand automatically<\/li>\n          <li><strong>Private<\/strong> &mdash; transactions free from external observation<\/li>\n          <li>A <strong>credit-based system<\/strong>, not a debt-based one like every national currency today<\/li>\n          <li><strong>Asset-backed<\/strong>, unlike fiat currencies or Bitcoin<\/li>\n          <li><strong>Secure<\/strong> from theft or counterfeiting, and inexpensive to transfer internationally<\/li>\n          <li>Structured to <strong>keep wealth local<\/strong> rather than exporting it to distant cities<\/li>\n          <li>Historically grounded &mdash; built on documented periods where similar systems benefited entire societies<\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-idea-callout reveal r2\" style=\"margin-top:2.5rem;\">\n      <p>&#8220;You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.&#8221; &mdash; Buckminster Fuller. Rather than trying to reform the existing financial system, the Trustees of Global Genius Trust are building a better one, and letting the marketplace decide.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- BENEFITS -->\n<section class=\"ggc-benefits\" id=\"benefits\">\n  <div class=\"shell\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Benefits of the GEO Currency System<\/span>\n      <h2>What changes when the money changes<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-bgrid reveal r1\">\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M12 2v20M17 5H9.5a3.5 3.5 0 0 0 0 7h5a3.5 3.5 0 0 1 0 7H6\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n        <h4>Keeps Local Wealth Local<\/h4>\n        <p>Circulates within the community instead of extracting wealth to distant markets.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"9\"><\/circle><path d=\"M12 7v5l3 3\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n        <h4>Long-Term Thinking<\/h4>\n        <p>Promotes long-term investment and health over short-term extraction.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M20.84 4.61a5.5 5.5 0 0 0-7.78 0L12 5.67l-1.06-1.06a5.5 5.5 0 0 0-7.78 7.78l1.06 1.06L12 21.23l7.78-7.78 1.06-1.06a5.5 5.5 0 0 0 0-7.78z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n        <h4>Relationships &amp; Community<\/h4>\n        <p>Rewards cooperation and connection between neighbors, not just transactions.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"8\" r=\"4\"><\/circle><path d=\"M4 21c0-4 3.5-7 8-7s8 3 8 7\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n        <h4>Gender Balance<\/h4>\n        <p>Inherently benefits women and helps rebalance a system tilted toward Yang values.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M17 20h5v-2a4 4 0 0 0-3-3.87M9 20H4v-2a4 4 0 0 1 3-3.87m5-5.13a4 4 0 1 0 0-8 4 4 0 0 0 0 8z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n        <h4>Cooperation, Not Competition<\/h4>\n        <p>Structured to reward collaboration over zero-sum competition.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M12 2 3 7v6c0 5 4 9 9 9s9-4 9-9V7z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n        <h4>Liberty<\/h4>\n        <p>Free from governmental manipulation and control &mdash; not issued or revoked by decree.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><rect x=\"3\" y=\"7\" width=\"18\" height=\"13\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect><path d=\"M3 11h18M8 7V5a2 2 0 0 1 2-2h4a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n        <h4>Asset-Based, Not Debt-Based<\/h4>\n        <p>Using it creates real wealth, unlike debt-based national currencies.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-bcard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M3 12h18M3 6h18M3 18h18\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n        <h4>Benefits of Cryptocurrency<\/h4>\n        <p>Cheap and easy to transmit internationally, like Bitcoin &mdash; and much more.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- FAQ -->\n<section class=\"ggc-compare ggc-dark\" id=\"faq\">\n  <div class=\"shell-md\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/span>\n      <h2>Straight answers to the questions we hear most<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"reveal r1\">\n      <div class=\"ggc-accordion-cat\">What<\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-accordion\">\n        <details><summary>What is the GEO?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>GEO is an alternative currency designed to complement national fiat or gold-backed currencies such as the US dollar or Euro. It exists in several interchangeable forms &mdash; cryptocurrency, paper notes, gold-backed notes, and corporate shares &mdash; all part of one monetary ecosystem designed to bring more stability, prosperity, and sustainability to the communities that use it.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n        <details><summary>What is the difference between Bitcoin and GEO?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>Bitcoin&#8217;s value is produced purely by computational &#8220;mining&#8221; and has swung from under a penny to well over $1,000 &mdash; great for speculators, less great for economic stability. GEO shares some cryptocurrency characteristics, but is also available as a gold note, in digital form, and in paper form, and is designed to hold a stable value against a basket of assets rather than swing wildly.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n        <details><summary>Can GEO replace a whole country&#8217;s currency?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>GEO is designed to complement, not replace, a national currency &mdash; much like the Swiss WIR balances the Swiss Franc. That said, GEO could in principle serve as a country&#8217;s primary in-country currency, or a Yin-type local currency could be adopted as a nation&#8217;s own currency and then integrated into the broader GEO system.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ggc-accordion-cat\">Why<\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-accordion\">\n        <details><summary>Why would I want to use GEO?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>History shows that pairing a &#8220;hard asset&#8221; currency like today&#8217;s national money with a Yin-type complementary currency promotes abundance and sustainability, keeps local wealth local, encourages long-term investment, reduces scarcity thinking, strengthens relationships and community, benefits women and gender balance, promotes cooperation over competition, and preserves liberty from governmental manipulation &mdash; all while remaining asset-based rather than debt-based.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ggc-accordion-cat\">Control<\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-accordion\">\n        <details><summary>Who has control over GEO?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>GGCurrency is designed to operate primarily as a Disseminated Autonomous Organization (DAO) &mdash; a self-regulating computer program kept as free as possible from human interference. It is monitored, not owned or controlled, by the GEO Foundation; ultimate control resides in the thousands of independent computers running its algorithms, not in any single institution.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n        <details><summary>Can GEO be shut down by a court order or government?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>Because no single entity owns or controls the DAO, there is no straightforward jurisdiction in which a court order could compel its shutdown. Ownership resides with the users themselves, who are the real shareholders of the system.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ggc-accordion-cat\">Investment<\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-accordion\">\n        <details><summary>Can I make money buying GEO the way I could with Bitcoin?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>No &mdash; GEO is deliberately designed to hold a stable value rather than swing widely, so it isn&#8217;t built for speculation. Investors may instead benefit through dividends, share appreciation at defined milestones, and participation in GGTrust projects funded by the investment.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n        <details><summary>If GEO is meant to help the world, why do you need donations?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>GEO is not a profit-making venture &mdash; it&#8217;s a means of exchange. GGTrust controls substantial real-world assets, but developing them (and building the GEO system itself) requires upfront capital for engineering, legal structure, and physical currency production. Donations and investment fund that early-stage work, the same way early capital did for companies like Amazon or eBay before they were categories, not companies.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n        <details><summary>How may I purchase shares?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>Through the Investing page, or by contacting GGTrust directly. Initial investors receive Certificates of Financial Interest; tradable share certificates follow once sufficient funding is in place to print them.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ggc-accordion-cat\">Local Currency<\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-accordion\">\n        <details><summary>How do we get a local currency started?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>Start by forming an interest group in your community to explore whether there&#8217;s enough appetite to launch one. GGCurrency works with currency-design partners to help a community decide which type of local currency &mdash; scrip, mutual credit, or another model &mdash; fits its needs, and can typically get a standard local currency running in as little as two weeks.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n        <details><summary>Do we have to change the name of our local currency to join GEO?<\/summary><div class=\"body\"><p>No. You can keep whatever name your community already uses. A local exchange office helps establish a fair exchange rate and integrate your currency with the broader GEO network.<\/p><\/div><\/details>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-jump reveal r2\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/faq\/\">See the complete FAQ &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- GLOSSARY -->\n<section class=\"ggc-glossary\" id=\"glossary\">\n  <div class=\"shell\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Glossary<\/span>\n      <h2>Key terms used throughout this site<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n    <dl class=\"ggc-ggrid reveal r1\">\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Alternative Currency<\/dt><dd>A type of money used instead of an official, national money &mdash; contrast with Complementary Currency.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Archetype<\/dt><dd>A recurrent image that patterns human emotions and behavior, observable across time and cultures.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Asset Backed<\/dt><dd>Value given by connection to a real, tangible asset rather than by decree alone.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Complementary Currency<\/dt><dd>A type of money that works alongside national money to provide benefits it doesn&#8217;t otherwise offer.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Counter-Cyclical<\/dt><dd>Acting contrary to the business cycle &mdash; expanding when the broader economy contracts, and vice versa.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Currency<\/dt><dd>Money in circulation &mdash; a portable version of money, most commonly coins, notes, or electronic records.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Cryptocurrency<\/dt><dd>A form of money that uses cryptography to control its creation and management, instead of relying on central authorities.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Demurrage<\/dt><dd>A charge made to the owner for their use of money &mdash; the reverse of interest.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Disseminated Autonomous Organization (DAO)<\/dt><dd>A self-regulating computer program with no single controlling node, operating across many independent computers.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Fiat Money<\/dt><dd>Currency with no intrinsic value, valuable only because a government declares it to be so.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Mutual Credit System<\/dt><dd>An accounting system in which members are extended credit they can spend with other members, paid off with labor or goods.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Scrip<\/dt><dd>Unofficial local paper currency used by a community as a medium of exchange.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Shadow (Jungian)<\/dt><dd>The unconscious expression of a repressed archetype &mdash; the more it&#8217;s repressed, the more forcefully it surfaces in behavior.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Trade Reference Currency<\/dt><dd>An asset-backed international currency, like the Terra, designed to counterbalance business-cycle swings in trade.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Yang Money<\/dt><dd>Money that activates protection, hoarding, competition, and control &mdash; all current national currencies.<\/dd><\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-gterm\"><dt>Yin Money<\/dt><dd>Money that activates cooperation, community, and abundance &mdash; most complementary currencies.<\/dd><\/div>\n    <\/dl>\n    <div class=\"ggc-jump reveal r2\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/links\/glossary\/\">See the full glossary &rarr;<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- RESOURCES \/ LEARN MORE -->\n<section class=\"ggc-resources ggc-dark\" id=\"resources\">\n  <div class=\"shell\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Go Deeper<\/span>\n      <h2>Choose how deep you&#8217;d like to go<\/h2>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-lgrid reveal r1\">\n      <a class=\"ggc-lcard featured\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/introduction\/\">\n        <span><span class=\"t\">Introduction<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Recommended &middot; Start Here<\/span><\/span>\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6\"><\/path><\/svg>\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"ggc-lcard\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/summary\/\">\n        <span><span class=\"t\">Brief Summary<\/span><span class=\"tag\">5 Minute Read<\/span><\/span>\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6\"><\/path><\/svg>\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"ggc-lcard\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/part-1-where-are-we-now\/\">\n        <span><span class=\"t\">The Full Explanation<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Parts I&ndash;VI<\/span><\/span>\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6\"><\/path><\/svg>\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"ggc-lcard\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/archetypes-of-money\/\">\n        <span><span class=\"t\">Archetypes of Money<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Deep Dive<\/span><\/span>\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6\"><\/path><\/svg>\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"ggc-lcard\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/ggcurrency-proposal\/\">\n        <span><span class=\"t\">White Paper<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Full Proposal, 48 Pages<\/span><\/span>\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6\"><\/path><\/svg>\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"ggc-lcard\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/implementation-plan\/\">\n        <span><span class=\"t\">Implementation Plan<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Documents<\/span><\/span>\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6\"><\/path><\/svg>\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"ggc-lcard\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/currency-system-structure\/\">\n        <span><span class=\"t\">System Structure Diagram<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Documents<\/span><\/span>\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6\"><\/path><\/svg>\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"ggc-lcard\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/local-currency-structure\/\">\n        <span><span class=\"t\">Local Currency Structure Chart<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Documents<\/span><\/span>\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6\"><\/path><\/svg>\n      <\/a>\n      <a class=\"ggc-lcard\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/links\/glossary\/\">\n        <span><span class=\"t\">Glossary<\/span><span class=\"tag\">Reference<\/span><\/span>\n        <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M5 12h14M13 6l6 6-6 6\"><\/path><\/svg>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<!-- GET INVOLVED -->\n<section class=\"ggc-involve\" id=\"involved\">\n  <div class=\"shell\">\n    <div class=\"ggc-sectionhead center reveal\">\n      <span class=\"eyebrow\" style=\"justify-content:center;display:inline-flex;\">Get Involved<\/span>\n      <h2>Tell others, join the forums, participate, or donate<\/h2>\n      <p>We invite you to join us in manifesting this transformation.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"ggc-igrid reveal r1\">\n      <div class=\"ggc-icard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><path d=\"M20.84 4.61a5.5 5.5 0 0 0-7.78 0L12 5.67l-1.06-1.06a5.5 5.5 0 0 0-7.78 7.78l1.06 1.06L12 21.23l7.78-7.78 1.06-1.06a5.5 5.5 0 0 0 0-7.78z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n        <h4>Donate<\/h4>\n        <p>Fund the engineering, legal structure, and physical currency production that gets GEO to launch.<\/p>\n        <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donate &rarr;<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-icard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\"><rect x=\"3\" y=\"7\" width=\"18\" height=\"13\" rx=\"2\"><\/rect><path d=\"M3 11h18M8 7V5a2 2 0 0 1 2-2h4a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div>\n        <h4>Invest<\/h4>\n        <p>Qualified investors can purchase shares of GGTrust or GEO, backed by real assets rather than debt.<\/p>\n        <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/currency.ggtrust.com\/index.php\/investing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learn about investing &rarr;<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"ggc-icard\">\n        <div class=\"ic-wrap\"><svg class=\"ic\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" 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