In the last year I have reported that the Asheville Community Currency project was going to issue a printed hard currency to use locally. The project has now taken a different direction, moving to an online system.
The Asheville Currency Project has morphed into the Smokey Mountain Hollers Cooperative. The group behind the effort has also announced a plan to create a bartering website to support the currency, known as the “holler.”Amy Hamilton, one of the organizers, says the group recently completed Mountain BizWorks’ basic course for entrepreneurs and plans to release the paper currency in coming months.
It will probably be the spring before the group gets its website up and running.
Read more at http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100928/NEWS/309280027
Jct: Good. In 1999, under the UNILETS Time Standard of Money, I paid for 39/40 nights in Europe with a timebank IOU for a night back in Canada worth 5 Hours which I recorded on my public do-it-yourself timebank account: http://johnturmel.com/unilets.com I’ll take your online IOUs to put you up in Canada if you’ll take our online IOUs to put us up chez vous.
That’s my UNILETS timebank account at http://johnturmel.com/unilets.htm