Dear all 🙂 This is the latest post on this website, founded by FairCoop in September 2014. Since a few days ago, we have a new website, more adapted to the current needs of the FairCoop ecosystem movement. This new website is mainly composed of: Home page https://fair.coop, which contains fixed information for those who want to know about us …
On November 24th, as you probably know, many companies are going to be telling you to participate in “Black Friday”. They will attempt to sell you things you don’t need by lowering the price. Of course there will be no Black Friday for essentials like heating, power or water – they know you have to buy those things so they …
FairCoop is experimenting with a new form of organization that emerged from reflections and ideas of the recent Summer Camp. The rapid growth of the ecosystem meant that we had to rethink our way of organizing. More people dedicated to the project were needed, who could find a way both to collaborate and be financially rewarded for the time invested. …
FairCoop is beginning to consolidate its new form of organization. Finally, thanks to the work of the last Summer Camps (in Décentrale, Mont Soleil, Switzerland, with the help of Synergiehub and SCI Schweiz), a new operating scheme has emerged, which we will detail in our next post. There, in Jura, we spent eight weeks of intense work in which we …
FairCoop is one of the co-founders of Bank of the Commons (BotC), a revolutionary open cooperative initiative whose aim is to bring some fresh air into the dark world of banking and finances and to offer support to cooperative projects and social currencies all over the world, both at a global and a local level. BotC brings them the latest …
The Troika added abusive new taxes in Greece on imported coffee (2 euro per kg of unroasted grain coffee and 3 euro per kg of roasted grain coffee), which is about 50% of the actual value, to pay debt to private banks. In solidarity with this situation, and taking into account that the Zapatista coffee production has now sold out, FairCoop …
We are happy to present the Faircoop Summer Camps at the Décentrale on Mont-Soleil, Jura, Switzerland More info about the place in their site: Decentrale.ch July 30 – August 13 Introduction to FairCoop ecosystem. How to create a local node in your region. There are 12 places available for activists who wants to learn about FairCoop ecosystem and extend in their region. Priority for people …
We are at a historical landmark: after two years of development and testing, Faircoin’s blockchain is ready to change its consensus algorithm from Proof of Stake (PoS) to Proof of Cooperation (PoC). Have you ever asked yourself why bitcoin uses such a huge amount of electricity? And why it is controlled by a small amount of mining farms? The new …
It’s time to take control of our lives. Now is the time. We are building a socioeconomic system by the people and for the people, totally decentralized, open, cooperative and managed horizontally by all of its participants and taking all the decisions in assembly form. Meet and participate. Experience freedom This is the map of a new way of approaching …
A growing network of local nodes is being born. These nodes are developing the capacity to bring cooperative ecosystem tools to the real world, and to make it easier for everyone to have a place to go to ask questions, join us and ultimately fulfill their needs with the mutual aid afforded by a strong and stable movement. The work …