What is the Fairo?

The Fairo is a unit of measure for purchasing power. The value that 1 Fairo represents is equivalent to one thousandth of the mean future basic cost of living for one month, which was the purchasing power of 20 Faircoin at the end of the year 2016.

What purpose does the Fairo serve?

1. It serves as a stable price indicator.
2. It makes no reference and has no dependency on any money created by central banks.
3. It is not affected by deflation or inflation of the medium of exchange.

Who creates Fairo?

Nobody. Since Fairo is a unit of measure, that would be like creating grams or meters. Fairo is a quantity of a medium of exchange or store of value, not the medium of exchange or store of value itself.

What is Faircoin?

Faircoin is the proof-of-cooperation crypto-currency that serves as medium of exchange and store of value in the fair economy.
https://fair-coin.org

What is the fair economy?

The fair economy is a global grassroots movement that embraces intergral revolution, peer-to-peer culture and hacker ethics to make the transition to a new world, reducing as much as possible economic and social inequalities among human beings, and at the same time contributing to a new global wealth, accessible to all mankind as commons.
https://fair.coop

How is the Fairo used?

Most commonly, Fairo is used to measure the quantity of Faircoin to be transfered in a trade transaction. It can also be used as reference when making transactions with another medium of exchange such as a mutual credit system or other local and social currencies.

What are Fairo rates?

The Fairo rates are conversion rates for different mediums of exchange, adjusted for the inflation and deflation since year-end 2016. Fairo rates are currently set based on Faircoin.

How are Fairo rates set?

The conversion rates for Faircoin represents an adjusted mean based on market activity with a delay of about 10 minutes. Other Fairo rates are periodically reviewed and adjusted to deflation and inflation based on consensus in the open assemblies of Fairo stakeholders and the local groups using these other currencies.
The following formula was agreed in the fair ecosystem movement's general assembly.
The Fairo/Faircoin rate is a moving average calculated as:

max(1.2 * WeightedAverage,LogarithmicBottom)
WeightedAverage is 
	max(last7DailyMean,last90DailyMean), 
DailyMean is 
	average(DailyOpen,DailyClose,DailyHigh,DailyLow)
LogarithmicBottom is 
	last7DailyMean × sqrt(
		(max(HistoricHighOfWeightedAverage) 
			÷ HalflifeOf180Days)
			÷ last7DailyMean)

Why are Fairo and FairCoop rates set above the value of Faircoin outside the fair economy?

They account for the value of the level of trust in the economic reality for different tiers of the local, translocal and global fair economy. At each tier, they help to keep value from being extracted from the fair economy by capitalist market speculation.

Are Fairos backed with Faircoins, Euros or Swiss Francs?

When making a transaction in Fairo, you back them with the medium of exchange, such as Faircoin or some other form of ledger. Such mediums of exchange, like a paper note, can then be backed by assets.

What is a Fairero?

Fairero is what we call the equivalent of a Satoshi in Faircoin, the smallest fraction of a Faircoin. Some people call them "Fairies", too.