 How are the various local currencies connected?
New money: Do local currencies actually work? Timebanks, local exchange trading systems (LETS) and digital inventions like bitcoin can provide alternative ways for people to pay for goods and services when mainstream currencies hit crises. But they will only work if Britons are ready to accept that they have the power to invent their own currency. Everyone has gathered to decide what a Glasgow Pound might look like at a time when many are asking if local currencies can work at all. So they printed a currency that would have the same value as the pound, but could only be traded in independent Brixton shops, where the shopkeeper would also have to spend it locally. No two local currencies are exactly the same.
 They are independently developed but there are groups dedicated to sharing information about the various systems
 They are independnet systems but can sometimes be traded for currency in a town where there is an existing partnership  They are developed entirely independently from one another  They are all developed by the same national organization, adapting to the needs of specific areas  They are independently developed but there are groups dedicated to sharing information about the various systems