MoneyDemo

The money demo from late 20002 is a demo only. Askemos can not yet deliver virtual money for legal and social reasons, though it would be technically possible. This demo tries to illustrate how virtual money would work in the InformationSpace.

The only way to remove the social obstacles of such virtual money is to support it by several independant installation. The owners of all those machines, which provide the computation, must join legal binding contracts not to forge their copies.

Conclusion: money is not cheap.

How to play the game:

Best you have three web browsers to watch from. Then you can log in under the names of the three test users for the game. You really need three browsers otherwise you must log out and in to see the effect, which is inconvenient and error prone.

The three users are:

• http://gonzo:oznog@www.askemos.org:7081
• http://snake:ekans@www.askemos.org:7081
• http://fred:dref@www.askemos.org:7081

Initially I created a one cent bill and gave it to snake.

Everybody can see the bill: http://www.askemos.org/Ac615728b1d731d6d9ee8256b03f809a3 but only the current owner and the person to whom the bill is offered (if any) can see a form to and actually change the owner.

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Most virtual money exhibits problems, because it is usually acompanied business practices or data accumulation. This is something to simply avoid. Examples: http://www.paypalsucks.com/