In 2013 I wrote an article that was published in the online academic journal, Internet Journal of Community Currency Research (IJCCR). That article, Taking Moneyless Exchange to Scale: Measuring and Maintaining the Health of a Credit Clearing System, was intended to bring order out of the chaos that prevailed within the movement to create decentralized moneyless systems of reciprocal exchange based on the credit clearing process.
Alas, that article attracted little notice and stimulated no significant action to correct common errors and improve system operations. But this matter is far too important to leave it at that. Fortunately, the past few years have seen the development and deployment of some powerful new communication tools that are able to create high quality, short audio and video overviews that make concepts and prescriptions accessible to anyone.
Over the past several weeks I have been making extensive use of these tools with amazing results and posting the output on my website, https://beyondmoney.net/, and elsewhere; I am doing the same in this case. is a 7 minute video overview of the article:
And here is a longer, more comprehensive 14 minute audio overview.
If you have any interest at all in reclaiming the “credit commons,” participating in decentralized, community-controlled exchange alternatives, and transcending the destructive political money regime, these are essential to understanding how to move forward.
And please spread the word.
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