Encointer is a cryptocurrency platform that allows any community to build their own currency by holding regular key signing meetups as a condition to receive basic income in freshly issued currency. This work shall simulate the economics of such community currencies.
As a starting point, the village market simulator by grassrootseconomics.org shall be used, which incorporates a lot of experience with community currencies in Kenya (Sarafu Credit).
The simulation shall also apply the bancor protocol for allowing liquid exchange among neighboring communities.
References
- Explainer video about the village simulator and the Kenyan field experiments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxvPdXFsr3w - Existing source code (based on CADCAD):
https://gitlab.com/grassrootseconomics/cic-modeling - Bancor whitepaper:
https://cryptorating.eu/whitepapers/Bancor/bancor_protocol_whitepaper_en.pdf - Good reads about economics:
Kind of Work
30% economics theory, 70% Python simulations
Requirements
Python
Time & Effort
Semester/Bachelor’s/Master’s Thesis, 1 Person
Contact
fabian.schenkel@scs.ch