Private Currency

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8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the Private Currency site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site

9. Contact - got a question about Private Currency, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.

10. Payment - ready to pay for your Private Currency, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.

A private currency is a currency issued by a private institution. It is often contrasted with fiat currency issued by governments.

In many countries, the issue of private paper currencies is severely restricted by law. However, in Scotland and Northern Ireland private sector banks are licensed by the government to print their own paper money.

Today there are several privately issued electronic money in circulation, such as digital gold currency, that function as money. Transactions in these currencies represent an annual turnover value in billions of US dollars.

History 1836-1841.In the United States, the Banking in the United States#The era of free banking lasted between 1837 and 1866, when almost anyone could issue paper money. States, municipalities, private banks, railroad and construction companies, stores, restaurants, churches and individuals printed an estimated 8,000 different monies by 1860. If an issuer went bankrupt, closed, left town, or otherwise went out of business the note would be worthless. Such organizations earned the nickname of "wildcat banks" for a reputation of unreliability; they were often situated in remote, unpopulated locales said to be inhabited more by wildcats than by people. Yet according to Lawrence H. White's article in The Freeman "it turns out that 'wildcat' banking is largely a myth. Although stories about crooked banking practices are entertaining—and for that reason have been repeated endlessly by textbooks—modern economic historians have found that there were in fact very few banks that fit any reasonable definition of wildcat bank." The National Bank Act of 1863 ended the "wildcat bank" period.

In Australia, the Australian Bank Notes Tax Act 1910 basically shut down the circulation of private currencies by imposing a prohibitive tax on the practice. Many other nations have similar such policies that eliminate private sector competition.

One example of a currency that lost government support but retained use amongst a community is the Swiss dinar.

Ithaca hours The city of Ithaca, New York in Western New York State has experimented with barter in which participating workers exchange services for Ithaca Hours which are used to buy goods and services forming a subprivate currency for a small locality. The scheme has been ruled legal provided all transactions are taxed.

Currency backing Today many private currencies are backed by a commodity to increase asset security and nullify inflation, which can be caused by an issuer increasing money supply. Some use established and historic forms of money, such as silver or gold, as in the case of digital gold currency or the Liberty dollar.

It is possible for privately issued money to be backed by any commodity, although some people argue that perishable goods can never be used as currency, other than in bartering. One criterion that is regarded as critical for any currency backing material is its fungibility. Alternative views suggest paper Energy Accounting (measured for example in "joules of electricity" or "joules of oil"), transport (measured in kg·km/h), or food for instance, may be used in the future.

Resources

Friedrich Hayek Denationalization of Money: An Analysis of the Theory and Practice of Concurrent Currencies 1977. ISBN 978-0255360876