Re:Freicoin: bitcoin-like currency from the Occupy movement
by daenz on Monday June 25, 2012 @02:17PM
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This is what I thought of too when I read the wikipedia page for "Demurrage". Here's what's referenced there:
> The major central banks' post-WWII policy of steady monetary inflation as proposed by Keynes was influenced by Gesell's idea of demurrage on currency,[2] but used inflation of the money supply rather than fees to effect the goal of increasing the velocity of money and expanding the economy.
> The major central banks' post-WWII policy of steady monetary inflation as proposed by Keynes was influenced by Gesell's idea of demurrage on currency,[2] but used inflation of the money supply rather than fees to effect the goal of increasing the velocity of money and expanding the economy.