Cryptocurrency VS Abolishing Currency

In this episode of What Would Save the World? #cryptocurrency VS the idea of #abolishingcurrency is discussed with crypto-enthusiast and expert Jodi Coyote & The Transition Team's Seed Nicole Bienfang.

The following is a list of resources pertaining to the topics discussed during this interview:

Zeitgeist Movement

https://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/

Zeitgeist: Addendum Documentary

http://www.thetransition.org/zeitgeist_addendum

Cryptocurrency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency

Jodi Coyote

https://www.facebook.com/jodi.carothers

Nicole Bienfang

www.nicolebienfang.com

The Venus Project

https://www.thevenusproject.com/

Resource Based Economy

https://www.thevenusproject.com/faq/what-is-a-resource-based-economy/

Places that Accept Bitcoin

https://99bitcoins.com/who-accepts-bitcoins-payment-companies-stores-take-bitcoins/

https://letgocrypto.com/

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/prnewswire/press_releases/Texas/2018/01/16/SF89644

https://www.coinspeaker.com/2018/01/27/brisbane-airport-now-accepts-cryptocurrency-payments-terminal-shopping/

Cryptocurrency Mining

https://www.lifewire.com/cryptocoin-mining-for-beginners-2483064

School of Rock Reference

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332379/

Nicole’s Sustainable Living Podcast Interview

http://www.thetransition.org/the_transition_featured_on_the_sustainable_living_podcast

Sharing Economy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing_economy

Foreclosures and Homelessness

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-skip-bronson/post_733_b_692546.html

Watch Your Thoughts...Frank Outlaw

https://quoteinvestigator.com/category/frank-outlaw/

1%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_percent

99%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_are_the_99%25

Solidarity

http://www.thetransition.org/when_someone_says_solidarity_not_charity_what_does_that_mean

Mutual Aid

http://www.thetransition.org/what_is_mutual_aid

-Isms and Hierarchy

http://www.thetransition.org/when_someone_is_talking_about_isms_to_what_are_they_referring

Trump Voters

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/who-are-donald-trumps-supporters-really/471714/

Bottom Up Movements for Social Change

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/democracy_and_education/2012/05/bottom-up_organizing_transformative_movements_can_only_be_realized_with_authentic_grassroots_leaders.html

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Creating an Economic Transition 

In episode 76 of The Sustainable Living Podcast Nicole Bienfang Seed Person of The Transition discusses with host Jenise Fryatt how our organization helps people take action.

You may wish to check out the following related links that are mentioned in the interview:

Zeitgeist Addendum

Stone Soup

Your Action Plan

Twin Oaks

Twin Oaks Communities Conference

Show Discussion Chronology

1:00 – Chronic Illness – Binge documentary watching

3:00 – The Venus Project – Resource Based Economy

6:00 – Michael E.V Knight – Build a Resource Based Economy Now Facebook Group

10:00 – Intentional Communities – considered patchwork solution by Venus Project

11:15 –  Identifying common themes within the tribe

13:00 – Decided to create our own website

15:15 – Status of RBE Facebook Group now

16:30 – How the website helps people to take action

18:00 – Pitfalls of too many groups trying to do the same thing

20:45 – Difference between The Transition and Transition Towns

24:15 – Top Down vs Bottom Up Approach

27:45 – Objectives of The Transition and how it takes action to meet them

29:45 – Identifying best ways to start taking action and developing “Your Action Plan”

31:00 – Matching resources to needs

32:45 – The Transition is a reciprocal organization – Stone Soup

36:45 – The powerful hidden fringe benefit of all this

39:30 – “There is no soup unless you put in some potatoes”

41:45 – Making fringe society mainstream

43:30 – Attracting and organizing volunteers and groups

45:00 – Developing a crowd-funding platform for funding member projects

47:30 – Some of the projects that are being helped by the site

49:30 – Site being used as a filter to find serious people for projects

51:00 – How can people make the best use of The Transition website?

54:45 – The importance of non-violent communication

57:30 – The importance of re- assessing the usefulness of our current system

59:00 – Ways to contribute to the Transition community and benefits of contributing

1:02:20 – Yearly conference at Twin Oaks Intentional Community

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