All contents on the topic: Virtual and crypto currencies

Event archive: 5th Biennial RAMICS International Congress

from 11. September 2019 to 15. September 2019, Japan

“Going Digital? New Possibilities of Digital-Community Currency Systems” Only in the past few years, crypto currencies such as Bitcoin and other altcoins/ tokens have rapidly spread all over the world, expanded its scale, and increased its number. However, we have witnessed in the recent bubble burst of crypto currencies that they have become quite volatile, […]

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Event archive: Blockchain for Sustainable Developemnt

from 24. October 2018 09:30 to 24. October 2018 13:00, Geneva, Switzerland

Organised by IFLAS (the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability at the Unversitz of Cumbria) as part of the UNCTAD World Investment Forum in Geneva, Blockchains for Sustainable Development will be one of the very few blockchain-focused events this year that will have heads of state and senior government officials from around the world attending.

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Event archive: Finance Watch Workshop: Blockchain

on 14. November 2017, Brussels

This is the first of a series of Finance Watch workshops aimed at providing Finance Watch Members, but also regulators, journalists and other interested stakeholders, with an opportunity to familiarise themselves with the diverse, and often challenging, landscape of Financial Technologies (FinTech) and to stimulate a discussion about their potential role in making finance serve […]

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Event archive: IV International Conference on Social and Complementary Currencies: money, awareness and values for social change

from 10. May 2017 to 14. May 2017, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona

The 4th International Conference on Social and Complementary Currencies will take place from Wed 10th to Sun 14th May 2017, at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya UOC (www.uoc.edu, Castelldefels, Barcelona-Spain). More information, call for papers, registration here. UOC will organise the event together with Research Association on Monetary Innovation and Community and Complementary Currency Systems […]

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Social Trade Organisation

The Dutch foundation STRO (Social Trade Organisation or Strohalm) was founded in 1970 by Henk van Arkel. Its original focus on environmental issues has shifted in the last twenty years ever more in the direction of activities in the area of alternative economics and particularly complementary currencies – always following the conviction that economic and […]

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Virtual and crypto currencies

Virtual currencies only exist in online ‘worlds’ and games. They have no physical form and cannot be used outside of these spaces. Some online gaming worlds like “Second Life” issue currencies. Players buy this currency with national currency. They can only use this currency to use, exchange or buy virtual objects for use in the […]

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