If Occupy Created Bitcoin

Programmed by the co-creator of Occupy Wall Street and powered by Ethereum, Sparkle is the world’s first redistributive currency.

The concept for Sparkle—a redistributive money—came to me as I watched The Miracle of Heliane, a political opera, being performed at Bard College on August 10, 2019. At the time, I did not know smart contract programming.

For the next 30 days, I put everything else on hold and taught myself Solidity, the programming language used to write smart contracts for Ethereum. I was consumed by the desire to master as much of Solidity as possible in order to launch Sparkle on the eighth anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a social movement that I had co-created in 2011.

Here’s how Sparkle works: every time Sparkle is bought or transferred, 2% is taxed and redistributed to the entire economy. This 2% tax is a transaction tax reminiscent of the Tobin Tax or Robin Hood Tax with one key distinction: the proceeds of the tax are redistributed proportionally to everyone in the economy. The system does not penalize being wealthy — after all, the wealthy will receive a greater share of the transaction tax — and still it rewards the poor.

Imagine if we all benefited from the luxury consumption of the elite.

Before the dawn of programmable money, this instant redistribution would have been impossible to implement. But with Ethereum it is not only possible — Sparkle achieves it.

Learn more about the unique tokenomics of Sparkle at sparkle.money/faq

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Sparkle is real and exists right now. Join a better economy by sending any amount of ether to the contract address (0x286ae10228C274a9396a05A56B9E3B8f42D1cE14) to receive Sparkle.*

* Do not send ether from an exchange address or you will be unable to receive Sparkle. Be sure to use a high gas limit to complete the transfer. Include a gas limit of at least 100,000 or your transfer may fail.

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