I have been a TZM member and coordinator for a long time now. I have been engaging this community with the idea of an RBE for a couple of years.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5373.0I don't know exactly what to think of this endeavor. It seems counter to the core principles upon which TZM is founded. While I certainly am excited about Bitcoin and the technological developments it represents, I have always considered it a transitional technology to be exploited by the movement, but not in such a direct way. Creating yet another altcoin is probably not the best expenditure of efforts we can be pursuing. Many of our members are already donating compute time to worthwhile distributed computing projects trying to solve actual problems, and there may be friction or conflict in trying to encourage them to divert that towards mining for monetary gain.
I understand what you're trying to do and I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I do not think it is in the best interest of the movement on the whole. Even with that said, I, nor anyone else has authority over you to tell you what you can and cannot do. I will be following your project with interest and will be looking forward to seeing what comes of it. I hope my concerns are unfounded, but only time will tell.
Hey we appreciate your feedback and understand your concerns. We are big advocates for the core principals of TZM and are not asking anyone to divert away from anything they are doing. What we are trying to do with this alt coin is hopefully bring more awareness to TZM members as a whole as to the power of complementary currency and to bring more awareness about TZM to this sub culture. But we also feel we need to take small steps forward with progressive ideas like new currency and hopefully start to make positive changes in society with them. Every step forward in making something that competes with the traditional fiat currency system worldwide is necessary.
Here is a lecture that was done with the Institute for a Resourced Based Economy I think it is worth a watch for you.