Promise Language

A data structure that describes any transaction in any language.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Complex transactions require precise terminology

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Imagine you are part of a drug deal or a gun deal.  Tensions are high, heavily armed security on both sides.  Most deals don't end in gu...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Federal Reserve and other central banks in a world of Promise Language and Bitcoin

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Promise Language and Bitcoin do not define price.  They allow value to be translated efficiently. Currencies stabilize price.  Salaries ...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Bitcoin's role as part of central bank reserves

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Central banks require a clearing settlement device among currencies.  Gold has served that function historically, however, has issues.  Name...
Friday, February 21, 2014

A common language to communicate value

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Imagine going to Japan and not knowing a word of Japanese.  Your goal is to buy some salmon sushi.  With some pantomiming and lots of gestur...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Promise Language describes monetary transactions

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even in a world of undelivered promises.
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Why does Promise Language make a difference?

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It allows other forms of value to be conveyed to facilitate a transaction.  The individual chooses the form of value.  The efficiency allowe...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Promise Language eliminates the concept of "money supply"

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Edit:  money supply and currency supply are two separate things.  Money is the abstraction of anything of value.  Currency is something issu...

All transactions involve time

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Are you taking risk? There is no such thing as instant delivery. Value changes. Transaction fees cover. Dividing your lines of busin...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Alternative currencies and the same old problems (Bitcoin)

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The internet allows efficient "Wealth Translation", but requires a standard language/protocol. While it is nice to see an altern...
Friday, November 15, 2013

The W3C organization is looking at a "web payment API"

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They are not monetary science experts. They are computer professionals and underestimate the subject matter. See the W3C wiki for more i...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013

The Mathematics of Monetary Science

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Communication * (Trust + Performance) = Accountability The above equation led to the creation of a monetary transaction specification w...
Sunday, February 10, 2013

A banking protocol.

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The financial system is composed of a series of broken promises going back to treaties and trust funds.  Modern central banks were deliberat...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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Only living beings can make promises.
Thursday, January 20, 2011

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Promise Language is a standardized protocol for transactions that solves the problem of money.  All transactions are "promises to deliv...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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Transactions today require common trust in govt/central bank, Promise Language distributes that trust. At its most basic, Promise Languag...

The origin of Promise Language

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(Sorry for the grammatical errors.  I type as a I think, and when I switch plurals with pronouns, it means that I have conceptually abstract...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Promise Language in real life

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PL can be implemented at a small local bank as easily as a central bank. It instantly assures trust among participants while reducing transa...

Description of Promise Language (PL)

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Similar to HTML or XML, PL (Promise Language) is a simple framework describing promises that can be read by humans and processed by computer...

What is Promise Language?

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It is a public specification for contracts (promises) between individuals. Promise Language (PL) provides a framework that can be easily rea...
Thursday, July 16, 2009

A place to discuss new forms of money

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Promise Language is a loose framework for describing promises between individuals. Similar to contract law, but simple. Money is simply a...
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