Introduction to Currency Design
What you'll learn
- Theory, concepts, and applications of currency design
Requirements
- None
Description
In this course, you will learn the compelling and transformative practice of currency design.
Before the explosion of blockchain ledgers in 2008, currency design was a little-known field where community-focused economies grew as pragmatic responses to blockers to effective sharing and exchange of resources. This course approaches crypto-economics, and accounting from the perspective of this long-cultivated wisdom on designing economies for deep wealth (before and beyond money).
This course is focused on the conceptual and historical background of currency design and money, with case studies and lectures by experienced designers and key voices in imagining alternative financial systems. You will learn about designing reputation systems, impact assessments, mutual credit systems, and, importantly, why many currencies fail. We also look at the notion of the "commons" and offer some guidance as to how currencies can be targeted to solve problems of commons-management, including funding and participation.
Featured speakers: Ferananda Ibarra, Arthur Brock, Emaline Friedman, Jean Russell, Brett Scott, Mamading Ceesay, Jordan MacLeod, Sean Esbjorn-Hargens, Claudia Meglin, Siddharth Sthalekar, Noah Thorp, David Rose, and Matthew Slater
Who this course is for:
- Blockchain entrepreneurs
- Reputation system designers
- Social Changemakers
- Community currency activists
Course content
- Preview09:58
- 11:15The Value System We Swim In
- Preview52:05
- 3 questionsPersonal inventory of intervention points
Instructor
The Commons Engine incubates projects in the distributed technology and alternative currency ecosystem. It provides strategic guidance, group-based learning opportunities, and narrative and marketing services to social change-makers and innovators. It grew from the MetaCurrency group (that founded Holochain and Holo), to share decades of cultivated insight on building and implementing complementary, targeted, and distributed ledger-based currencies.