Stephen DeMeulenaere

Active with community currencies since 1990 and with digital currencies long before blockchain.

[Collaborative Finance Gathering @cofi_gathering]

Have you ever been to a conference where the attendees set the agenda themselves?

It's called "Unconferencing" or "open space" technology and we're big fans!

We believe this helps attendees access the potential of the shared genius in the room and the moment where we meet.

[Crypto Commons Association @crypto4commons]

Curious about the forming WORLDPLAY network, the June gathering at Commons Hub, or future online / IRL / hybrid activities around radical play, parallel worlding and imagination infrastructuring?

Join our first open network call.

Saturday (May 16), 6pm CEST (link in comments)

[Stephen DeMeulenaere @networkcoin]

The Yin and Yang of money: can community currencies and the blockchain get along?

About my 35+ years in community currency work, the Collaborative Finance gathering, and his book 'Pathways to Regeneration' together with @thetokenjedi

https://t.co/YQxAEhdNbG

[Merlijn The Trader @MerlijnTrader]

THIS IS CRAZY:

🇺🇸 Weeks ago we started tracking a whale.

11 oil trades. 11 wins. Perfect timing. Every time.
BBC validated it. White House denied it.

Now a reporter asked Trump directly.
"Are you concerned about insider trading?"

Trump: "The world is a casino. It is what it is."

Trade on a tip from your friend. Federal prison. Front-run a war decision with $17 million. No consequences.

The President just told you the rules don't apply to everyone.

The game is rigged. He just confirmed it.

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

We don't need your driverless cars.
We desperately need more carless drivers!

(🎞️ of the bike bus of @Struinnijmegen🇳🇱)

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, was arrested after confronting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about Gaza during a hearing on Capitol Hill: “Congress sent the bombs that kill children in Gaza and paid for them with cuts to Medicaid,” he shouted before his arrest.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel destroyed the statue of Jesus Christ in the Christian village of Debel, South Lebanon.

Now they’re bulldozing the solar panels that provide electricity and water.

Not military targets.

Critical infrastructure.

This is the deliberate targeting of civilian life.

[Lina @Lina_rays1ya]

For maga people saying these generals deserved to be fired and have committed treason, here’s general Mark Milley’s iconic speech “We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the Constitution—and we're willing to die to protect it.”🤗🔥

DO YOU AGREE OR NOT ? 👇👇

[Nick 🇻🇦 @XCkyro]

It’s interesting that this crucifix stood in Lebanon untouched amongst our supposed enemies, yet 5 seconds after “our greatest ally” invades the country, they destroy an icon of Jesus.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

The White House is completely silent as BBC confirms a consistent pattern of massive financial spikes occurring just minutes before Donald Trump makes market moving announcements. The administration is facing severe allegations of illegally profiteering off inside knowledge.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).

Apple donated to Trump’s ballroom.

And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores after a demand from the DOJ.

Remember this.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Warren Buffett says if the top 800 other major corporations paid what Berkshire Hathaway did in taxes, Americans wouldn't have to pay a dime in income taxes, or any taxes

“If we send in a check like we did last year, we send in over $5 billion to the US federal government, and of 800 other companies had done the same thing. No other person in the United States would've had to pay a dime of federal taxes. Other income taxes, no social security taxes, no estate taxes — It doesn't bother me in the least to write that check, and I would really hope with all the America's done for all of you, it shouldn't bother you that we do it”

You understand what he’s saying here right? We are subsidizing corporations cheating on taxes with our income tax

Abolish the Income Tax

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

This man exhibits the supreme confidence of someone who has no idea that he has no idea what he's talking about

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: About 120 U.S. military veterans were arrested inside the Cannon House Office Building today protesting Trump's war on Iran.

Some were on crutches. Some were in wheelchairs. Some carried the burial flags of fallen soldiers.

They are members of About Face — veterans who know what war costs because they have already paid for one.

Capitol Police handcuffed disabled veterans and dragged them out of the rotunda.

53% of American voters oppose the war. 74% oppose ground troops. 61% disapprove of Trump's handling of it.

The people who fought America's last wars are now being arrested for trying to stop the next one.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Stephen DeMeulenaere @networkcoin]

@owocki Then I would hope to see some Ethereum Localists join us at the 4th Collaborative Finance gathering from June 21-28 at the Commons Hub in Austria, because this is exactly what we do.

[Crypto Commons Association @crypto4commons]

CCG isn't a crypto conference. 🚫

🔄 It's an unconference — the schedule is co-created by everyone, every morning. You propose the sessions on topics relevant to you. The program never disappoints.

⏳ Early bird closes in 8 days.

🔗 https://t.co/mh8LEg5VqJ

[Commons Hub @CommonsHubAT]

looking good, @jeffemmett - even without your wings ;)

[Collaborative Finance Gathering @cofi_gathering]

What's Collaborative Finance?

The space between DeFi and TradFi — where crypto meets cooperatives, mutual aid meets mechanism design, and communities build financial infrastructure that actually serves them.

Early bird tickets till end of March!

https://t.co/rEwRGvZ3xu

[Collaborative Finance Gathering @cofi_gathering]

ANNOUNCING:
4th Collaborative Finance Gathering
June 20-28, 2026
Commons Hub - Hirschwang an der Rax, Austria
A collaborative, intensive and outcome-oriented gathering of 60 attendees maximum in the forests, mountains, and open skies of the Austrian Alps.
https://t.co/wOKnrBlzzb

[Stephen DeMeulenaere @networkcoin]

@MarkJCarney The deal at least since 1971 was that America could print as much money as it wanted, and bomb anyone who tried to bypass the US Dollar as the reserve currency, in return for guaranteeing our security. Now he wants to have his cake and eat it too.