Several low-income settlements outside Nairobi are using a new community-based currency called "pesas," which are equal in value to the Kenyan shilling and can be spent in the community just like cash ...
Recently I read a very interesting and stimulating article in a Dutch newspaper. It was about the Community Currency named Sarafu that is used in Kenya’s rural communities thereby trying to solve the ...
Families in the low-income neighborhoods of Nairobi are using a virtual community currency to pay for food during the coronavirus pandemic. More than 500 people a day are signing up to use Kenyan Red ...
People might spend freely if they’re given free money. That’s how Glenwood Gold community currency, a year-round “buy local” stimulus program introduced by the Glenwood Springs Chamber Resort ...
It will, perhaps, come as no surprise to learn that the number and scale of ‘community currencies’, which obviate the need for conventional banks, has mushroomed since the global financial crisis of ...
Blockchain technology has grown from a niche and highly specialized subset of information technology into one of the modern era's most popular and in-demand solutions. Driven in part by digital assets ...
ZUG, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bancor, the decentralized network for digital currencies, announced today it is launching the world’s first blockchain-based community currencies in Kenya aimed at ...