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The Incredible Lack of Internet Hubub Around IRTA’s Proposed Change in Software Providers Leaves Me Saying, “Meh.”

The barter industry has much to thank Dennis Smith for in the year 2014. He took down Ormita, a house of cards which perpetrated gross crimes across the world, after years of research and investigation. I personally talked to Dennis, at length, during that particular time, and I find him to be lucid, even if […]

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Opinion: Issuance of Stored Value

California, and indeed many states, are reviewing their laws regarding money these days. Money has become somewhat ambiguous over the last fifty years, and that ambiguity is only increasing with Bitcoin and all of the other new money being created all over the world. I’ve reported in other articles about Auroracoin, Mazacoin, and other bitcoin […]

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California and the State of Barter

California defines money three different ways (not to make things confusing or unclear…) “Money” means a medium of exchange currently authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government. The term includes a monetary unit of account established by an intergovernmental organization or by agreement between two or more countries. - California Uniform Commercial Code […]

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48 Hours Have Come and Gone

OrmitaTrading.com currently hosts a logo and a message. We are unveiling our exciting new system in 48 hours. Please stay tuned! Forty-eight hours have come and gone. The new software has not appeared, the exchange has not been put back together. Daniel Evans, other than publishing a press release targeting Dennis Smith personally, has not surfaced. We continue […]