Money From the Future:
Peeling Back Our Assumptions
About Currency
@mozzadrella, Educator at @stellarorg
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Imagine that we’ve settled Mars.
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If we press “reset,”
what would currency look like?
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Your mission:
Design a system to transact
items of “value.”
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Example: Mozzadrella’s Lightbeams
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Example: Mozzadrella’s Lightbeams
Lightbeams are
distributed through
touching globes at
community events.
Globes wirelessly
transmit balances to
each other.
Acts of altruism result in
a salary.
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Your mission:
1. My currency’s name is ______.
2. People get it by _______.
3. When I want to buy something, ____
happens.
4. We store currency in _______.
Remember, this is the future.
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Sketch out your ideas to yourself
for the next 5 minutes.
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Turn to your neighbors
and present part of your currency
you are proudest of.
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And now we whiteboard.
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Infrastructure
makes it possible.
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Back to present day…
I know. The future is cool.
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So is Stellar.org
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Open access
Low transfer costs
Financial history
Interoperability
Microtransactions
Stellar: Re-thinking currency
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Technical goals
Social goals
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Technical: Financial grid for money
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Tools for folks to
build upon
Stellar
Stellar
Consumer
Services
Users
NGOs
Stellar
App or Product
Users
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Tools for folks to
build upon
Stellar
Consumer
Services
NGOs
Stellar
App or Product
Users
= quantified self
savings app e.g.
save $5 each run.
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Stellar
Consumer
Services
NGOs
Stellar
Consumer Services
Users
Example: Praekelt
Foundation
Girls in SA
Stellar
Praekelt’s VUMI = South African
girls bank phone
airtime
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Social: Create cultures of
participation around money
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Giveaway program:
95% of Stellars given away as
invitations to participate
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Educational Programs for
Financial + Digital Literacy
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Goal: Inclusion for the 2 billion unbanked
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We can change the way
we think about money.
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Rethinking money is
an invitation to participate
in the structures that shape our world.
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Now let’s talk about
why you came here?
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Money From the Future:
Peeling Back Our Assumptions About
Currency
@mozzadrella, Educator at @stellarorg