Re: Suggestion: Remove "non-fiat money" from the draft Web Payments IC Charter

On 09/01/2014 12:30 PM, Joseph Potvin wrote:
> RE: Doesn’t fiat imply government?
> 
> If what's intended in that section of the Charter is to say
> "stateless currencies", then some variant of this phrase would be
> better. But would "Berkshares" that (I think) involve a regional
> government and some municipalites in Massachussetts be inside our
> outside that concept? http://www.berkshares.org/community_industry

+1 to removing non-fiat.

Perhaps changing it to "private currencies"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_currency

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Received on Tuesday, 9 September 2014 01:28:51 UTC