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| description = After growing up in UK and Denmark, Robin Upton trained as a mathematician before heading off to Bangladesh in 1998.
 
| description = After growing up in UK and Denmark, Robin Upton trained as a mathematician before heading off to Bangladesh in 1998.
After learning about the Ponzi scheme nature of fiat currency, he has been working on an alternative since 2004.
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After learning about the Ponzi scheme nature of fiat currency, he has been working on an alternative since 2004 - making a decentralized accounting model (a form of mutual credit) which he called [http://altruists.org/ae Altruistic Economics]. The computer network to implement it, he called [http://friend2friend.net Friend2Friend]. He is now working on [[:category:permaculture|permaculture]] in Bangladesh.
The decentralised accounting model, a form of mutual credit model, he called [http://altruists.org/ae Altruistic Economics].
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The computer network to implement it, he called [http://friend2friend.net Friend2Friend]. He is now working on permaculture in Bangladesh.
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A long time listener of the show, he took over the task as main host from [[Lyn Gerry]] in 2010. This takes up most of his free time when he is not computer programming or guerilla gardening. In Summer 2011, he released [http://Wikipediaplus.org Wikipedia Plus].
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A long time listener of the show, he took over the task as main host from [[Lyn Gerry]] in 2010. This takes up most of his free time when he is not computer programming or guerilla gardening. In Summer 2011, he released [http://Wikipediaplus.org WikipediaPlus], and in Winter 2011/2 he spoke on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51qTb2O6eYM Plutocracy to 28C3], a German hacking conference.
 
| seealso    = * http://altruists.org Altruists International, which Robin started in 2001.
 
| seealso    = * http://altruists.org Altruists International, which Robin started in 2001.
 
* [http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/57728 An interview on Robin & how he got involved with Unwelcome Guests], February 2012
 
* [http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/57728 An interview on Robin & how he got involved with Unwelcome Guests], February 2012
 
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Robin Upton
Born December 1970 (age 54)
Residence Dhaka, Bangladesh
Known for Gift Economy, Altruistic Economics
Main interests economy, economics, gift economy

After growing up in UK and Denmark, Robin Upton trained as a mathematician before heading off to Bangladesh in 1998. After learning about the Ponzi scheme nature of fiat currency, he has been working on an alternative since 2004 - making a decentralized accounting model (a form of mutual credit) which he called Altruistic Economics. The computer network to implement it, he called Friend2Friend. He is now working on permaculture in Bangladesh.

A long time listener of the show, he took over the task as main host from Lyn Gerry in 2010. This takes up most of his free time when he is not computer programming or guerilla gardening. In Summer 2011, he released WikipediaPlus, and in Winter 2011/2 he spoke on Plutocracy to 28C3, a German hacking conference.

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