Mr. Sustainability

MARCH 16, 2021

Regular money like dollars are euros are an example of a fungible token, as they can be interchanged for almost any good or service. For example, you can hold custody of an NFT by holding a sword from a Zelda game in a personal crypto wallet. The crypto kitty Dragon sold for 600 ETH, over $1,000,000 at the time of writing.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

His speech to the Financial Times' Moral Money event yesterday was essentially a financiers' reworking of the 'let's just adapt' to climate change argument from the likes of Bjorn Lomborg and Matt Ridley have been pedalling for over a decade. The proportionality is completely out of whack," he argues. Amen to that.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

More of the stack's capital providers themselves were represented IRL, with accelerators showing off technologies right out of the lab, VCs convening at summits, Growth / PE investor happy hours, bankers looking to finance companies to scale, and DOE officials on a mission to put IRA money to work.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 30, 2018

But some techies think it will revolutionize more than money. Then, the “block” of data, with its crypto info, is saved on thousands of computers in parallel — so that if you wanted to tamper with a record, you’d have to change everyone’s computer at the same time.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

A pockets is sort of a personalised location on the distributed ledger that refers to only your foreign money holdings. To spend or ship bitcoins, you might scan a retailer’s QR code or direct money to its public tackle. Check out our guide on the way to buy Bitcoin money and get statrted.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Today I’m talking with Brett Scott, author and specialist in the money system. In a nutshell, the Bitcoin community has an extremely old-school, conventional, conservative perspective on money, although framed in a supposedly disruptive way – largely because the technology layer of it is innovative. What’s wrong with the money system?

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Here’s the synopsis: We have a money system that we use to trade – to buy and sell things. But that same money can be used to acquire extreme wealth – it can be hoarded and accumulated as well as spent. Crypto doesn’t fit the bill , and neither do local currencies – but mutual credit does.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

Here’s a quick and dirty history of money. Since I’ve been involved in the mutual credit world, I’ve been reading various ‘history of money’ texts, and so I thought I’d organise the notes I’ve taken into a blog article. It’s impossible to generalise when it comes to the history of money.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

This is part 2 of a conversation with Brett Scott, author and specialist in the money system. Can the money system be reformed, or do we have to start building something different? You mentioned Positive Money. They’re a group trying to target the banking sector issuance of money. Part 1 is here.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

The large sums of money involved, and the distant horizons investors need to keep in sight when awaiting returns are part of what make the sector unusual. asked Amali de Alwis MBE, CEO of climate tech accelerator Subak , and a former MD of Microsoft for Startups UK.

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