money

When my colleague Malcolm van Delst published a blog post called "What the Frack is Bitcoin and Can I Use it with Drupal?", my first thought was, "Oh cool, I like Battlestar Galactica too!" Then my second thought was, "Oh cool, a peer-to-peer digital currency!" I've always wondered how hard it would be to build an online digital currency system that could be a practical substitute for regular money. People complain about big banks a lot, and maybe we can come up with a better alternative.

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A question recently came up on our internal team list. One of our team members was looking for recommendations on where to move her money.  She was currently banking with Chase and was disturbed by learning of the connection between Chase and BP.  This being just one reason of many to move your money from a big bank like Chase, she decided it was time.  Many of us at CivicActions bank with local banks or credit unions and the responses to her query brought many stories of others who had either recently or long been banking with credit unions.

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Probably something like $3. Assuming you have 4 a week, that's $48 a month or over $500 a year! This is not a blog post about Fair Trade, nope, this is about political campaigns in the United States. It's not a new development that campaign fundraising is "dirty" business, but it certainly has escalated in recent years.

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