Open Money Initiative is a non-profit research initiative that studies how people use money in closed economies and collapsing monetary systems, with early field research centered on Venezuela. Open Money Initiative's Twitter Score is 50 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of August 2026, ranking #18,184 (top 5%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Open Money Initiative was started in fall 2018 and launched its first project in January 2019, focused on Venezuela, where researchers conducted ethnographic interviews and longitudinal studies with people navigating hyperinflation, restrictions on merchant pricing, and barriers to sending money abroad. Its Venezuela work included conversations with students in Caracas who relied on bitcoin to cover daily needs, as well as examination of informal dollar cash flows carried from the United States. The initiative frames access to a free and open financial system as a human right and states that it does not advocate for any specific product or brand, presenting its findings neutrally.
Open Money Initiative has presented research at events including Magical Crypto Conference 2019, Consensus 2019, Oslo Freedom Forum, Zcon1, and MoneroKon. Its backers have included Human Rights Foundation, IDEO, Tezos Foundation, Interchain Foundation, Stellar Development Foundation, Zcash Foundation, Zooko Wilcox, and GiveCrypto; LocalBitcoins was a former backer. Open Money Initiative's account has accumulated 2,675 followers as of August 2026 and 77 posts, and has been mentioned by 49 accounts a total of 68 times.
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