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Bitcoin => Bitcoin Discussion => Topic started by: danalex on September 19, 2012, 02:03:44 AM



Title: Timebanking for people to meet for an event or activity
Post by: danalex on September 19, 2012, 02:03:44 AM
You set your profile and when logged you can try to find people according to criteria like he/they speak french, and/or play the piano, lives near such and such places, has such and such profile and uses to go to such and such places and areas and wants to meet for an event or activity, around such place/area to watch a specific movie at the cinema.

The time you provide to the bank may be slightly increased or reduced according to a weighting factor regarding the level of difficulty to fill your desired request.
You may make yourself more available and later be more able to redeem time that you would prefer having spent in other way.

The system would be very intelligent to optimise encounters, and daily donations could be distributed at the end of the day according to the feedback and rating! each gets.

I am sure this could be a great way to meet people, make friends and find ideal lovers.
I think a system that uses bitcoin and p2p network could implement this kind of services but maybe a website is all that would be needed.

Sometimes I would like to join people to do something I am not completly interested in but that would count more than others for time I could later request for others to join me and come along with me to it.

The power of it may rely mostly on profiding a good profile system that integrates well with the searching and filering of all sorts of availability.

I love the timabanking concept and am sure that we have yet to see something that can take it to the next level: whoever you are, wherever you are and where you want to go with someone that ideally will relate well with you and provide you with a good freeback and rating.

Basically, timebanking for lonely people that have no one to go out wwith or be with and are willing to exchange time spent with others, according to a set of rules and sorting out that would make it optimal for people that want to socialize more and be particularly rewarded by less reciprocally willfully ones.

I'm not sure where exactly would bitcoin and p2p networks make the big difference but would like to hear from you and know what to you think and reckon of this.


Title: Re: Timebanking for people to meet for an event or activity
Post by: Bitcoin Oz on September 19, 2012, 02:10:05 AM
This already exists....

You can go to a brothel and pay money for a hooker to spend time with you.   :)


Title: Re: Timebanking for people to meet for an event or activity
Post by: Spekulatius on September 19, 2012, 02:17:42 AM
He's sayin': Get busy you whore!


Title: Re: Timebanking for people to meet for an event or activity
Post by: repentance on September 19, 2012, 03:37:39 AM
You're talking about a type of social networking and there's pretty much a free social network for everything already in existence.  Many of the online dating services also offer vetting for non-romantic introductions.

It's not that I think your idea is a bad one, I'm just not sure how you'd market it in a way that it can compete with existing free and paid services.


Title: Re: Timebanking for people to meet for an event or activity
Post by: herzmeister on September 19, 2012, 10:06:49 AM
Already exists:

https://villages.cc/
https://ripplepay.com/
http://ripple-project.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_monetary_system