# Anyone heard of Colu? Crypto tokens/platform co-op overlap

**URL:** https://community.coops.tech/t/anyone-heard-of-colu-crypto-tokens-platform-co-op-overlap/502
**Category:** Technology
**Tags:** crypto
**Created:** [13 December 2017 12:52 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/anyone-heard-of-colu-crypto-tokens-platform-co-op-overlap/502 "2017-12-13T12:52:17Z")
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### Author: ![jonathan](https://community.coops.tech/user_avatar/community.coops.tech/jonathan/32/27_2.png) [@jonathan](https://community.coops.tech/u/jonathan)
#### Post date: [29 December 2017 11:03 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/anyone-heard-of-colu-crypto-tokens-platform-co-op-overlap/502/21 "2017-12-29T11:03:53Z")

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A bit more reading on the cryptocurrency issues:

Cynical:  
**[Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain | HackerNoon](https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100)**

New co-op, French, “Via its smart bridge technology, Ark aims to position itself as the “cryptocurrency of cryptocurrencies” Members from a dozen different countries, main objective will be to create blockchain ecosystems:  
**thenews.coop/125250/topic/co-operative-cryptocurrency-venture-launched-france**

And this, also from Co-op News: A team of Spanish engineers is developing a Blockchain platform to enable renewable energy co-ops to exchange the power they generate. _(I’m thinking there may be a useful parallel between ‘exchanging the power they generate’ and co-ops within CoTech sharing/exchanging the wealth/work they generate?)_  
**thenews.coop/124505/sector/blockchain-technology-give-competitive-advantage-renewable-energy-co-ops/**

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