LEGAL COMMUNITY CURRENCIES
DEP is a legal community currency designed for local, national and international use. It can be deployed almost immediately if the digital option is used (via the mobile app) and is good for use anywhere in the world.
There are thousands of community currencies successfully operating in different parts of the world. Historically, community currencies work extremely well for people and business, providing a range of benefits, which is why they continue to exist. They in crease the use and availability of money; create more business turnover and directly benefit all users.
WHY DO PEOPLE ADOPT COMMUNITY CURRENCIES?
- Connects people to each other, builds community resilience
- Increases the visibility of skills and surplus goods overlooked in the formal economy
- Enables co-operative and reciprocal trade when legal tender is scarce or inflation is artificially increased by bankers and government
- Makes it easier for people to ask for, receive, or give, help
- Provides incentives for more trading because people have more money
- Used as a counter-balance against financial hardship
- Helps keep wealth growing and circulating within communities
- Builds financial resilience; personally, within families, businesses and communities
- Makes it possible for people to have more
PEOPLE ADOPT COMMUNITY CURRENCIES BECAUSE THEY WORK
