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==About==
[[category:projects]]The [[Metacurrency Project]] is a discussion group started by author/entrepreneur [http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/about.html John Robb] with the goal of designing and marketing software to handle [[metacurrency]], which [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Metacurrency_Project/message/7 Robb defines] (with some editing) as:
<blockquote>an accounting or currency system that:
* captures the all of the contributions made by the participants in a specific venture
* can be used to confer ownership in that company in exchange for their participation

That [ownership] equity can be traded internally (between participants), externally (sold to non-participants), retained for dividends (from the company's earnings), between systems (for other metacurrencies), or unbundled (where the metacurrency is broken into component parts).
</blockquote>
The Project's objective is to design a metacurrency "that contains the nuts and bolts of a specific Internet venture in its construction", refine it, implement it in software, and launch it as a venture. If the venture succeeds, the profits can be used to help repeat the process with another metacurrency-based venture.

The project has a [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Metacurrency_Project/ Yahoo! Group] for forum-style discussion and is also frequently the topic in posts on Robb's blog, [http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/ Global Guerillas].
==Concepts==
* [[/OSV]] (open-source venture)
==Notes==
''This area is for notes on specific ideas discussed; it may later be expanded into a work area.''
* [[wikipedia:WIR Bank|WIR Bank]] is an independent [[wikipedia:complementary currency|complementary currency]] system in Switzerland founded in 1934 in response to currency shortages after the stock market crash of 1929. It apparently originally operated on the "[[wikipedia:Freigeld|free money]]" system, but renounced this in 1952.

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