neo-Luddism - a movement in modern society; people who free themselves from social networks, or even reject the technology completely. Market's growth of "dumb phones" is a side effect and a clear sign of this evolving social movement.
#society #media #newstr #movements #freedom #surveillance #distraction #news #DigitalRights #privacy #offline #DigitalSlavery #FreePress #InternetFreedom #tech #smartphones #cybersecurity #finance #economics #Bitcoin #money #GelatoEconomist
WORD OF THE DAY: "walled garden"
walled garden - a closed platform or environment, wherein the service provider controls and approves access to applications, content, and media.
Examples: Apple Store, Google Play Store, Huawei AppGallery, Facebook, Weibo, X (Twitter)
#slang #Internet #tech #OpenSource #AnotherBrickInTheWall #GeoFencing #newstr #news #nostr
Source: https://www.techslang.com/definition/what-is-a-walled-garden/
🍨SCOOP: Citizen journalist showing concentration camps in China 🎬🔍
#CitizenJournalism #GuanGuan #newstr #news #Xinjiang #China #nostr #FreeSpeech #OpenSource #OpenSourceEverything #tech #privacy #uyghur #ConcentrationCamps #HumanRights
BREAKING: "Italy Highlights Open Source's Key Role in Public Service Digitalisation"
BREAKING 2: "Switzerland has enacted the "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfilment of Governmental Tasks" (EMBAG), establishing a mandatory requirement for open source software within public sector bodies."
#StepByStep #OpenSource #Internet #tech #newstr #EU #evolution
Internet & tech are centralized as f*ck 💁🙆🙊
Are you surprised? 👻
#newstr #history #Internet #tech #memes #offline #SinglePointOfFailure #NothingNew #travelling #BoardingPass #memestr #nostr #decentralize
Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/microsoft-windows-data-blackout-downs-major-financial-firms-airlines
Disney dollar - a scrip sold by The Walt Disney Company and redeemable for goods or services at many Disneyland facilities. Pegged by US dollars. First used in 1987. Distribution stopped in 2016. Features: microprinting, reflective ink and imprinting on the front and back of the bill to deter scanning and copying, printed with serial numbers and letters which are unique to each bill, had small bits of glitter scattered on them.
Issuing authority: Scrooge McDuck
#economics #finance #money #disney #GelatoEconomist #scrip #Bitcoin #crypto #history #nostr #tech #edu
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disney_Dollars&diffonly=true
http://www.ourdepartureboard.com/blog/disney-dollars-ultimate-guide
https://www.icollector.com/1990-5-Disney-Dollars-Note_i28935959
Shell money - commodity money, used worldwide (some places even today like in Papua New Guinea). Small, portable, durable, neutral, impossible to counterfeit and stable against inflation.
Chinese traditional character 貝 (simplified 贝) bèi depicts probably the most popular type of shell money used in ancient China and worldwide - cowrie shells (Cypraea moneta/Monetaria moneta).
On the other hand, Inuit and Native Americans prefered dentalium shells and used them as an international trade item.
Some places shells were/are fastened together in strings of forty or one-hundred each, so that fifty or twenty strings represented a dollar.
#economics #finance #money #HomoSapiens #ShellMoney #GelatoEconomist #history #trade #world #Bitcoin #cryptocurrency #technology #Internet
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/features/shell-money-papua-new-guinea/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentalium_shell
https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/03/18/when-seashells-were-money/
Pearl - a type of gemstone that is formed when an irritant enters the shell of a mollusk.
Types of pearls: freshwater pearls, saltwater pearls, cultured pearls. Size: 6 to 15 millimeters. Price range: $1 to $100,000.
"The global pearl market is currently valued at just over $10 billion."
"Originating in Mesopotamia, the pearl trade flourished in the Indian Ocean all along the Persian Gulf, the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan where it remained for millennia before demand from the monarchies of Europe sparked dives across the Western hemisphere."
"From the mid-18th century with the rise of global trade, the Gulf’s pearl industry exploded; trade routes that connected Indian, Persian, and Turkish lands meant that the pearl eventually flooded European and Chinese markets. By the late 19th century, it is estimated that around 60,000 people, almost the entire population of the Arabian Gulf, stretching from Kuwait along Saudi Arabia to Bahrain, Qatar, and the Sultanate of Oman were involved in pearling, at times representing up to 95% of local incomes."
"The pearling industry was dominated by slave labor, and male slaves were used as pearl divers until the final abolition of slavery in the Gulf states in the period of 1937–1971. Thousands of slaves from India and Africa were transported through Zanzibar into the region in order to meet the world’s gargantuan demand for pearls."
#nostr #money #finance #trade #history #economy #economics #pearls #slavery #FreedomMoney #HomoSapiens #Bitcoin #crypto #trading #technology #Internet
Source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_hunting
https://oec.world/en/profile/hs/pearl-products
https://www.pearlparadise.com/pages/pearl-price
https://oliviaandpearl.com/blogs/blog/pearl-cultivation?pb=0
https://www.forevernetco.com/product/2/28/4
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl
https://atmos.earth/a-cultural-and-mythological-history-of-pearling-in-the-arabian-gulf/
Jade - decorative rocks (from creamy white to greenish). Term jade often used for both jadeite and nephrite.
The most valuable is "Hotan jade" being pure white & termed "mutton fat". It's price reached 3000$ per ounce in 2010.
"The major source of Chinese nephrite is Hotan in western China's Xinjiang Province, while jadeite comes from the Hpakan region of Upper Myanmar (Burma)."
"Environmental watchdog Global Witness valued Kachin’s jade (northern state in Myanmar) trade at up to US $31 billion, with 50 to 80% being sold illegally to China."
"At least three people were killed in a December 2021 landslide, while a 2020 landslide claimed 162 lives and another in 2015 killed 113."
"Chinese term '玉石之路' (jade road) exists within Chinese archaeological and cultural articles (and even in business and travel magazines) as a prehistory to the 'Silk Road'. There exists evidence of a jade trade during the Neolithic Period (12,000 – 2200 BCE) and the Bronze Age (2200 – 500 BCE) in China well before silk was transported along the 'Silk Road'."
#economics #jade #trade #economy #rocks #money #environment #HumanRights #finance #art #news #nostr #mining #Bitcoin #gold #cash #crypto #JadeRoad #SilkRoad #history #technology
Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/29/global-witness-report-jade-in-myanmar
https://lotusgemology.com/resources/articles/460-jade-a-lifetime-seeking-heaven
SCOOP OF THE DAY: "Big data swindling"
Big data swindling - algorithmic discrimination by which the prices for the same goods and services online are hiked up for existing customers, based on gathered information and data analytics.
#BigData #algorithms #OpenSource #news #swindling #world #technology #finance #money #GelatoEconomist #BigTech #privacy #trending #nostr #newstr #scoop
Source: https://chinamediaproject.org/the_ccp_dictionary/big-data-swindling/
Ottoman lira - the currency of the Ottoman Empire from 1844 until 1927, later replaced by Turkish lira.
1-lira note dated 1875, contains text in Persian, Turkish, French, Greek, Armenian and Arabic
Until the 1930s, the Arabic script was used on Turkish coins and banknotes.
#MoneyTellsStories #finance #economics #money
#FIAT #Bitcoin #crypto #BitcoinStandard #history
#GelatoEconomist #cash
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_lira
Japanese scrip (Edo period) - Originally used only as a representation of amounts of rice but quickly became a currency. Most scrip carried a face value in silver coinage, but gold and copper scrip also circulated. Issued around 1600 by Shinto priests also working as merchants in the Ise-Yamada.
Private notes had been printed for purposes such as payment of workers on construction projects. Domains issued scrip to supplement coins in times of shortage and to adjust the amount in circulation. By the end of the period, eight out of ten domains issued paper.
#finance #history #money #coinage #economics #scrip #Bitcoin #crypto #FIAT #BitcoinStandard
#economy
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip_of_Edo_period_Japan
BREAKING: "Myanmar junta restricts cash withdrawal at banks amid economic crisis. Withdrawals have increased as kyat loses value and economy tanks."
#economics #GelatoEconomist #news #finance #banking #money #diary #bondage #bdsm
Source: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/myanmar-economy-bank-withdrawal-limits-07102024162422.html
Food stamps & vouchers during a communist period in Poland (1980s)
A rationing mechanism was implemented to regulate the distribution of vital commodities.
Citizens were allocated quotas (monthly allotments) for flour, candy, chocolates, detergent, cigarettes, alcohol, soap, oil/lard, meat and milk.
#scrip #money #economics #finance #GelatoEconomist #diary #vouchers #Bitcoin #crypto #history #CentralPlanning #communism
Source: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/food-rationing-communist-poland/
https://polishforums.com/history/food-stamps-communist-era-64898/
Soviet ruble - currency of the soviet union, where the central government controlled prices and the exchange of currency (planned economy). Introduced by State Bank Of The Soviet Union in 1922. One ruble was divided into 100 (копейка) kopeyka.
Used in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia & Ukraine until 1992.
Used in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan until 1993.
Used in Tajikistan until 1994.
#money #finance #FIAT #economics #Bitcoin #crypto #sovereignty #ImperialMoney #slavery #history #economy
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_ruble
Guinea coin - a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold. "Guinea" was not an official name for the coin, but much of the gold used to produce the early coins came from Guinea (largely modern Ghana) in West Africa. The coin was produced every year between 1663 and 1684, with an elephant appearing on some coins. The elephant, with or without a howdah, was the emblem of the Royal African Company (RAC), which had been granted a monopoly on English trade with Africa in slaves, gold and other goods, from 1672 until 1698; gold imported from Africa by the RAC bore the elephant emblem beneath the monarch's head on the coin.
#coinage #history #gold #economics #finance #banking #money #Bitcoin #crypto
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(coin)
https://www.royalmint.com/shop/monarch/king-charles-ii/1663-1684-Charles-II-Guinea/
"Leper colony money" - money which circulated only in leper colonies due to the fear that money could carry leprosy and infect other people.
Oldest coins were made in 1901 for use in three leper colonies of Colombia. Leper colony money is also known to have existed in Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Korea, Nigeria, Thailand, and Venezuela.
#history #HomoSapiens #money #economics #Bitcoin #cryptocurrency #finance #world #currencies
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leper_colony_money
The stelo ("star") was from 1945 to 1993 a monetary unit of Esperantists, one of whose aims was to achieve a single world currency. Attempts at an earlier currency, the speso, were cut short by the First World War.
#economics #money #esperanto #stelo #finance #history #world #FIAT #Bitcoin #crypto #GelatoEconomist #HomoSapiens
Source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelo
