Kusama Mchezo in Tanzania
In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, the Encointer community “Nyota” has developed its own ways of leveraging digital currencies. In this article, we present how Nyota has blended its cultural habits with the new possibilities offered by the Encointer and Kusama networks. It is a story of community empowerment and bureaucracy-free cash transfers and distribution. What […]
Grassroots Democracy for Local Communities
Encointer is a decentralized digital platform that empowers local communities to issue their own currencies and manage common funds. But who is actually in charge? Who can make changes to the configuration of monetary policy or the geographical boundaries of the community? In contrast to most other community currencies, Encointer operates without a central entity […]
Presentation at Sub0.1
Yesterday, Alain presented Encointer and its privacy solution SubstraTEE at the substrate developer conference Sub0.1 in Berlin:
Development Update #1
We are proud to present the first proof of concept for encointer ceremonies. The following video guides you through the steps of registering for a ceremony with a mobile phone app through to participating at a meetup where only humans are able to provide each other with a proof of personhood by signing their id, […]
A Global Universal Basic Income
A universal basic income (UBI) is a modest amount of money paid unconditionally to individuals on a regular basis (Standing). Most advocates of UBI aim at introducing it at a national level, as a monthly income to all legal (fiscal) residents and paid out in cash (denominated in national currency). Usually, a UBI is suggested […]
