Voucher-Safe, a Next Generation Digital Currency – Part I

Julia Dixon on November 20, 2012

Digital Gold Currency is a fantastic idea. Gold enjoys thousands of years of history as an excellent currency and store of value. It is a form of money that is constantly chosen by the market and that needs no legislation to support its value. Gold is stable, solid and cannot be pulled out of thin air. With modern technology gold can be used as a currency online without any more effort than it takes to check your email. Brilliant!

But as DGC’s were starting to take off and be recognized for their many benefits, the rug was pulled out from under the industry with the prosecution of e-gold. The old DGC business model is centralized and vulnerable to seizure, censorship and prohibitive regulation.

The Voucher-Safe system allows for a more decentralized, Anti-Money Laundering compliant way to anonymously exchange value. It’s DGC 2.0, a more flexible and resilient system where anything can be money. “The idea behind voucher-safe is that it isn’t about making just one thing money. Money  can be gold, it can be existing national fiat currencies, it can be bitcoins, it can be silver, it can be anything of value that people want to exchange.”

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Austrian Economist and Former Mises Institute President Makes the Case for Innovation in Currencies

Julia Dixon on November 15, 2012

Doug French is Senior Editor at Laissez Faire Club and a former President of the Mises Institute. In a new post he supports “Currencies of the Future” (i.e. Bitcoin) and argues that “The answer to the currency question may not be to reform government” but instead to make “an end run around the government’s iron grip on the monetary system.”

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The Turkish Prime Ministers Wants the IMF to Use Gold Instead of Dollars

Julia Dixon on November 13, 2012

Sabah, a Turkish new site, reports that the Prime Minister has said, “Why do we not switch then to a monetary unit such as gold?”

It would seem that Prime Minister Erdoğan is not pleased with the IMF as they are “going to rule the world based on the exchange rates of [the dollar]” and has “no intentions of working with the IMF again.”

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GoldMoney’s Alasdair Macleod: The SCO, China, Iran, and Gold

Julia Dixon on October 8, 2012

I make no apology for returning to the subject of China, its role in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and gold. Gold is now a strategic metal for present and future SCO governments, which between them have over 40% of the world’s population; and now that the price of gold is re-establishing its rising trend, understanding its future role as a replacement for the US dollar is increasingly urgent, because gold is wealth and this wealth is being transferred from west to east.

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Singapore Scraps it’s 7% Tax on Gold and Silver

Julia Dixon on October 5, 2012

Singapore scraps it’s 7% tax on gold and silver in an effort to turn the city into a precious-metals trading hub to rival London and Zurich. “There has been a dramatic increase in customers wanting to move out of paper, that is over-the-counter gold, and into physical,” said Cedric Chanu, director, Asia precious-metals trading at Deutsche Bank. “We’re seeing customers wanting to move their gold from Europe into Singapore.”

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