# Any thoughts on mutual credit

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/any-thoughts-on-mutual-credit/853>\
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**Created:** [September 29, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/any-thoughts-on-mutual-credit/853 "2020-09-29T07:00:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![systemshift](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@systemshift](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/systemshift)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/any-thoughts-on-mutual-credit/853/1 "2020-09-29T07:00:37Z")

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Hi, So I know I am comparing apples and oranges with these two. But I recently have been reading alternative money theory and found mutual credit, it is a very old concept and arguably predates barter.

I have no insight how this could be useful for SourceCred, but I found it to a be a powerful concept that others might dig into and find a good use case.

The Wikipedia page for mutual credit is a good first introduction. And then the closest thing we have in terms of applied cryptography is the trustlines project [https://trustlines.network/](https://trustlines.network/)

Again, given that open source is hard to fund, it is possible we might find a work around it if we dig into obscure alternative monetary theories.