This is part one of a two-part series with Enric Duran, leader of the Faircoin project and founder of Fair Coop.
Faircoin is a fascinating experiment in cryptocurrency: a LETS-style community currency which also functions as an exchange-traded token. With it, Duran’s Fair Co-op wants to power an international co-operative movement based on ideas and principles emerging from the Catalan Integral Co-operative: peer-to-peer organization, and horizontal governance by consensus.
We discuss how the Fair Co-Op project co-opted (!) the original Fair Coin for its own use; trust and reciprocity in small communities and how crypto can extend this into the wider world; and just how to think about the ‘ecological cost’ of Bitcoin as a means to create a truly trustless global exchange network.
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Host: Jamie King
Guest: Enric Duran
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Produced by Jamie King
Edited & Mixed by Lucas Marston
Original Music by David Triana
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