I think one of the goals of a resource based economy is to eliminate the use of currency - regardless of it's form.  It seems to me that bitcoin is just another attempt to create a private currency, though perhaps the motivation is a bit more pure.

We could seriously have an entire forum with subforums dedicated to monetary issues. It is a very complicated and important subject. I think the important thing at this point is for everyone to simply be aware of its importance and complexities. Solutions will come with time, but if the whole topic doesn't even enter people's minds in the first place, it will never change.

Anyway Anderxander, do you think you could assist OSE with setting up a way to receive donations in bitcoins?

Thats great Anderxander. You should contact elifarley to get it set up. He's managing the website.

sorry if I seemed short. The currency problem is a passion of mine.


I think the venus project has been stagnant for years. OSE is putting into practice everything they have been dreaming about.

I'm glad we're on the same page. I agree with the creator of bitcoins and take the position that bitcoins are not a solution but a tool in the belt of the open source community to help advance this set of ideas. I believe bitcoin will play an integral role in transitioning from currency based economies to abundance economies.

One reason being the introduction of a new concept of money for people to contrast with the current one. As resource based economy is far off in the minds of most people, this will stimulate thought about another way of doing things and a different way of doing the same thing, only p2p. And I know this isn't a strong argument but I think the step from p2p currency to p2p resource based economy is a small step and a important simplification.

Not only donations but selling gvcs in bitcoins or even partial payment. This could alleviate cash flow and investment issues. And even though bitcoins are anonymous their cash usd value could be recorded for tax purposes. Right now 1BTC = $ 8.85 USD. There are roughly 6.5 million bitcoins in circulation. Thats close to $ 60 million in bitcoins with a total of 21 million to be released. And they are divisible up to 8 decimal places. This gives you a virtually unlimited money supply. About Every 2000 blocks added to the chain of transactions the difficulty of the encryption increases. This has been matched with a steady rise in price for over a year.

The money system is the blood of the economic system. It is there to keep things flowing. Production is the heart of the economy. 

"to create skilled factory workers" to the magnates meant to create wage slaves. They had policies of loose credit, much like credit cards, to endebt the wage slaves to the magnates. The public education system is a system of indoctrination. It is there to instill you with societal ideas like national pride and "the natural order of things" Tyrants become saviors in history text books.

The discussions of the 1920' s tricked people into selling their futures on false promises of riches in the stock market and led to the great depression.

money is a tool used to measure the worth based on its scarcity and demand. As automation rises and the amount of man hours spent decreases, production scarcity also decreases and money ceases to function properly as a way to determine a products worth.