We received this today from our contact we were speaking with.
Hey,
Sorry to say, the global coordinators do not like the idea of alternative currencies - they believe it is against the message of the movement and are also concerned about fraud. I can really see the idea behind getting alternative currencies going, especially from a 'transition' standpoint, but unfortunately because we are hosting the international event, they have the final say. If you want to come to ZDay or one of the after parties in order to debate its merits with people in the movement you are welcome to do that. The movement has definitely become more strict in terms of drawing lines around what can be labelled officially 'Zeitgeist' and what cannot.
Sorry again 
We will be attending the event to combat their stance however our new initiatives will be to start donating ZEIT to related charitable organizations that still stay within the means of the Zeitgeist Movements ideals.
Stay Tuned we don't need their movement to create our own! Once we start these initiatives we hope that they come to their senses and start to stray away from their antiquated values and start to enforce their actual beliefs which are
"The movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. The view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in science and technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications that could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population, increasing public health. There is little reason to assume war, poverty, most crime and many other monetarily-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time. The range of the movement's activism and awareness campaigns extend from short to long term, with methods based explicitly on non-violent methods of communication."
It sounds an awful lot like the "global coordinators" have lost sight of what the movement is about. I believe that cryptocurrency has the ability to put people on a level playing field (within reason, of course). What I mean by that is, give me and Warren Buffet the exact same mining rig, mining on the exact same pool at the exact same Mh/s and for the exact same amount of time, then, theoretically, he and I would mine the same amount of coins. So, as far as cryptocurrency is concerned, he and I would possess the exact same amount of wealth. And, as long as cryptocurrency remains unregulated by any government or bank, then that keeps the control in the hands of the people, and out of the hands of the global elite. For now, anyway.
