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Despite being less than five years old, some really cool projects are being built around Bitcoin. For example, just-dice is an elegant gambling application, with options to both gamble and invest. What are some of the cool projects that you have seen?

What about that ATM in Vancouver?

Link about that?

I would say:
silk road

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/26/5031132/canada-bitcoin-atm-bitcoiniacs-robocoin-vancouver

What about this?

https://www.bitbillpay.com.au/

:)

Any Aussies here care to comment on this?

autonomous agents

What are autonomous agents?

Give an application/website a bitcoin wallet. Program it to buy it's own hosting.

Basically, we could one day have entire corporations that are run online without any human interaction that only charges an overhead equal to what it costs to run the business. It would have incredible implications.

For fun, you could put a backup in the wild that verifies the main site is running. If it is down then the backup goes live. You could program it to move every X days.

Imagine if the silk road operated like that? No human control just a permanent service that existed in the wild. It could even send profits directly to your wallet and you'd never have to interact with it at all.

I don't necessarily see all of the various exchanges that keep opening up as super awesome,just awesome. The sites that allow speculation are kinda neat though not super awesome. Even various business that decide to accept bitcoin are great just not super awesome.

I think the MasterCoin protocol is super awesome. It it works then bitcoin becomes more robust and demand goes up. Mastercoin is revolutionary and takes away more financial controls from the old system and decentralizes them for the people.

Not to thread jack over here, but since you asked (though probably not the coolest thing), I created a physical Bitcoin tip jar. You can see how it works here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67McSlKwgX8


I figured it'd be cool if a small business/bars used it as a a way to acknowledge a tip.

We're gonna need fatter pipes.

:)

Also about autonomous corporations: via analyzing its sourcecode, you can be 100% sure that you won't get ripped off when investing in or buying from the corporation.

The ATM is pretty cool. I wonder if they can get off the ground -- these things hitting the streets could do wonders for adoption.

This I believe is also some sort of Bitcoin ATM - I think the pic was taken at a recent trade expo in Sydney.

Can anyone shed any light on it?

https://i.imgur.com/DndteLg.jpg

I'll second Mastercoin. As has been said elsewhere, it's definitely not just another altcoin. Moreover, development of the protocol is progressing rapidly, thanks to the simplicity of its design. (Full disclosure: I own some Mastercoin.)

Another cool project is maaku's attempt to prune the blockchain near-optimally. I for one would really like to see full nodes have a lighter system footprint than they do now. This work, however, seems to be currently on hold for lack of funds. See http://utxo.tumblr.com (http://utxo.tumblr.com).

Buying pizza with bitcoin seems cool. Especially when you pay 10000 btc for it few years back.

MCXnow- Altcoin exchange, Interest payments (like a bank), a stock program, games with altcoins coming soon they say and that will give purpose to any altcoin listed here. Some altcoins have no use except for that you can trade them for Bitcoins.
Devcoin- Earn free coins writing, then trade them for Bitcoins on MCXnow

And I've read that devcoin supports 3D printing projects, community building projects and even plans to build a rocket in the future, you can read about it here: http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin_bounty

I think competitive gaming would be very cool to integrate with Bitcoin.

Something along the lines of what is being done with http://www.leetcoin.com/

Wow - thanks! You can't imagine how nice it is to have other people excited about this. I've been excited about it for a couple years, but I worked in solitude until very recently.

Any advice if Bitcoin ATMs have hit Australian shores yet? I did read that they were being imported, but can't remember where now.

Definitely the ATM right now.

ATM is definitely important, but as for COOLEST, I opt for: http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/13/investing/bitcoins-philippines-typhoon-donations/ (http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/13/investing/bitcoins-philippines-typhoon-donations/)
Improving bitcoins image at the same time as donating for a good purpose  :)

I agree with those saying the ATM.  Just seeing these around I could see it legitimizing Bitcoin for those that aren't aware of it, or sure about it.

Can't wait for the ATMs to spread worldwide.

Looking at the cost of the ATM, good luck on trying to break-even..

Mastercoin is a pretty cool idea, a protocol being built on top of bitcoin, not another alt coin!

It's truly amazing how much dedication you have to work on a project single handed for such a long period of time. Without at least one other person to question my approach to a problem; I wouldn't trust myself ::).

BIP38 is actually really cool, and I don't think advancements in this type of security would have gone as fast without Bitcoin.

Sorry but I don't get you, Mastercoin is another coin like Bitcoin which you can spend and use em?

That's the most scariest thing I've seen done with bitcoin. THEY WANT A SCAN OF YOUR HAND! Screw biometrics!

I vote this as the coolest thing done with Bitcoins www.takeaway.com , a fast food aggregator, because Bitcoin miners can now feed themselves without ever having to use fiat!  :D

The coolest thing is buying house with Bitcoin....

The coolest thing currently being done with Bitcoin has to be WITHDRAWING CASH for the 1st Atm in Canada...followed by the Gift Cards available for HOTELS and purchases at Mainstream Retailers like Sears, Amazon and others.

Definitely the ATM.

It's also great that alot of business are accepting bitcoin these days.

Sounds like the beginnings of SkyNet

There are (or at least were) two mastercoin alts.  One was just another "alt".  The one being built on the protocol layer is the interesting one.  I would add a link but i don't think I can add links cause I am new.

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