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Currency Systems
Backed Currencies Transaction NetIthaca HOURS
LETSNational Currencies
ROCSTime Dollars
Complementary Currencies

Complementary Community Currency Systems and Local Exchange Networks

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Benefits of complementary currency models:

When a full spectrum of currencies are available, people will complete more transactions, enabling more people to meet their needs and create trading relationships.

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How complementary currency is issued:

Complementary currencies may be issued as

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How complementary currency is measured.

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Complementary currency exchange rates:

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Structural incentives in complementary currency:

I prefer to think of community support through community money as contribution TO the body social/political/economic rather than taxation, which feels more like extraction FROM. Stuff we throw in, comes around; that which is sucked out is most likely gone.

--Michael Linton, originator of LETSystems

Complementary currencies, because they do not bear interest (which discounts future earnings in relation to present cash),

Those complementary currencies backed by an external reference (a commodity or service) rather than the fiat of a central authority are less susceptible to inflation.

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Complementary currency models in action today:

Many of the most prevalent complementary currency models have a presence on the web:

Also take a look at a graph showing the increase in complementary currencies since 1980.

 

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