Faircoop

FairCoop is an open global cooperative that organizes itself through the Internet outside the boundaries and controls of nation-states. FairCoop aims to issue an alternative global economic system based on cooperation, ethic, solidarity and north-south redistribution and justice in economic relations.

The FairCoop launched on September 17, 2014, after months of activist networking from various fields of alternative economy. People involved were Enric Duran of the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC), Michael Bauwens of the P2P Foundation and the bitcoin developer Amir Taaki.

The main objective of FairCoop is to make the transition to a new world possible reducing the economic and social differences between humans as much as possible and simultaneously contributing to a new global wealth available to all humanity in the form of commons.

FairCoop understand that the transformation to a fairer monetary system is a key element for their goals. That's why FairCoop supports Faircoin as to base upon their actions of resource redistribution and to build a new global economic system.

In late April 2014, Enric Duran, co-creator of the concept of "integral cooperative" and co-founder of the CIC - Catalan Integral Cooperative, began to develop an idea that led to FairCoop. After an extensive research on the world of , he chose Faircoin. Its characteristics, history and the possibility to develop the project anonymously were his reasons to revive this cryptocurrency. Later, he revealed his identity and shared his plan with the other members of the development team to cooperate together for Faircoin.

Between the months of May, June and July 2014 he shared the project with various partners of the CIC, of the P2P Foundation like Michel Bauwens and Stacco Troncoso, with the developer of Dark Wallet like Amir Taaki and Paul Martin and with various individuals and initiatives from around the world, to be the promoter group, which made it possible to launch FairCoop on September 17, 2014. This date coincides symbolically with the day, in 2008, when he started the campaign "We can live without capitalism". Later, in 2009, he promoted a banking strike with more than a hundred information points throughout the Spanish state. Networks of alternative economy were created and people were invited to abandon their bank accounts.

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