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A New Digital Currency Whose Value Is Based on Your Reputation

• Wired.Com

Bitcoin turned money into something completely virtual. Using a worldwide network of machines and the power of pure mathematics, it put currency in the hands of computer programmers, free from the rules and regulations of big government and big banks. But J. Chris Anderson wants to do something even more radical.

Anderson is starting a new digital currency project tentatively dubbed Document Coin. It's a bit of an odd duck, but it's intriguing, and Anderson is worth listening to. He's the co-founder and chief software architect of Couchbase, a kind of new-age database with some serious cred among Silicon Valley developers.

Instead of using pure mathematics to prevent things like the same person spending the same money twice, Document Coin will rely on personal reputation to keep all transactions in order. And each unit of currency created using Document Coin could have different values in different situations. If you use a coin in one place, it might be worth more then if you use it in another. The goal, Anderson says, is to get people to completely rethink the entire idea of money.

Unlike with bitcoin, anyone will be able to create a new Document Coin anytime they want.

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