Perhaps a Bitcoin infomercial would be better.

20-30 minutes giving people a step by step way of going from non-Bitcoiner to full knowledge of how to use Bitcoins.

Why have no exchanges set up a Person2Person payment? You can transfer your money from your ING account to anyone else's ING account and get the money instantly.

Was this tried or checked into and people had a bad experience?

You can buy my house for 100k BTC

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People smart enough to use Bitcoins are also smart enough to not need to pay for porn.

This would need to be addressed.

SilkRoad will do for Bitcoin what porn did for VHS (and the Internet). But on a much smaller scale.

I agree, starting out would have to be fairly narrowed down as far as products and wholesalers go since if you had 10 retailers all choosing 10 different items from 10 different wholesalers it would defeat the purpose of bulk purchasing.

I guess there are several different levels here. One would be the purchasing side from the wholesaler and the other would be the distribution side and perhaps a third being the actual sales and marketing.

A p2p type of network for each of those levels could be a huge benefit.

Person A may see an order of 1000 Blue Nikes going through at $20 each with a retail value of $50 and want to do nothing but invest in 100 Nikes paying $2,000.

Person B may have a storage unit with enough room for 100 Blue Nike boxes so he makes his storage and shipping costs available for those 100 Blue Nikes.

Person C may be a retailer with a website that puts Blue Nikes on his website for $50 plus $10 shipping and handling.

A shoe sells, Person A gets $30 (the original $20 plus $10), Person B gets $10 for storing and $10 for shipping and handling, Person C gets $10 for selling the shoe.

Each level can have numbers showing a level of trust and perhaps a competing percentage they are willing to take.

The consumer gets decent prices with lower shipping if there are enough distribution centers spread out across the country with the product.

My wife buys clothing wholesale from several sites. Each wholesaler gives lower prices for larger orders.

How much interest would people have in a website that sifts through wholesale sites, grabs pictures and prices of items and then presents them to Bitcoin retailers that can "pre-order" items and have those pre ordered items show up higher on the list or on the main page and when a certain amount is reached a purchase is sent off and the items are divied up.

For example, we have a shoe category. A pair of blue Nikes gets a lot of interest and moves up toward the top. Retailers seeing that the Nikes could be purchased cheap jump on the order. 100 Nikes are "pre-ordered" and those interested are given a day to purchase (send in their BTC).

Once the Nikes arrive, the site owner sends them off to the retailers individually. Charging shipping and handling based on the size of the order. Since most wholesalers are overseas (see China), a huge shipment sent from a long distance split into smaller shipments locally would still be a decent deal.

We could even have a common website for everyone and the person who lives closest to the buyer gets the money. That way the site gets known for fast shipping. Maybe even same day if a retailer is close enough.

The ideal being that Bitcoin creates a new method of making money other than mining. Instead of a mining rig you get yourself a storage rig and just bring things in and store them and ship them out when needed.

And hopefully the costs are all lower from combined orders and everything being paid in Bitcoin from there.

Thoughts? (I thought it out better in my head than I described.)

I notice on some prepaid debit cards that you can do a direct deposit to the card (http://www.creditcards.com/credit-cards/readydebit-visa-prepaid-card.php).

You can also take out cash at an ATM.

Bitcoin has the problem of chargebacks. If someone deposits cash into a BTC account and then gets the BTC and spends it, then does a chargeback...they can get their money back.

Could you not use a prepaid debit card to transfer funds to it, take out the money at an ATM and do a chargeback?

Or things like refillable gas cards that you can re-charge using a credit card (http://www.shell.us/home/content/usa/products_services/shell_cards/refillable/).
I assume that you could fill the card with your credit card, pay for gas with it, then do a chargeback and they could not get the money out of it.

I am not trying to find a way to get free money or gas through chargebacks, I am trying to figure out how these are used without having the same problem that BTC does with chargebacks.

They are both white with red and green rectangles going up and down and black lettering...

I agree. Quite similar.

This goes without saying. I was referring to the day after winning the lottery...

 

I would probably put a huge bid wall up at $5/BTC and as people buy, sell at $5.50 for at least a year to give some price stability in the early stage.

Such as?

Let us say that you won the lottery and you want Bitcoin to succeed in the long term. You want to take some of your earnings, $10 million, and use it toward making Bitcoin a fairly popular and useful currency of choice.

What would you do?

Let us say that you had a whole lot of Bitcoins or you were getting thousands of Bitcoins per week and wanted to set up your own personal exchange because you just do not want to go through the exchanges.

How would YOU accept payment?

Keeping in mind that people will likely try to scam you out of your BTC.

We got served.

It is the way that it goes down that is what appears to be manipulation.

Large walls set up that then fall just as it is going down.

Early adopters are not sitting on $100k to put up walls while also selling $100k worth of BTC.

Even though I wish the price was up over $100/BTC I believe that the price will hover around $4 for a while.

It is apparent with the easing of the mining difficulty that we dipped below profitability for some miners when we reached the $4 range.

The "manipulator" drove the price down below $3 but it is slowly rising up to its real value.

If current mining difficulty is steady, many miners will hold more than sell slowing the inflation rate. And if we can make it through to late 2012 then the blockchain reward will be cut in half and there will be an upward movement in price from there on out.

Ya, I guess they do not even need to be considered BTC in the game. Maybe something that you can sell for BTC or whichever.

That spring engine looks quite nice. Open source and everything.

Just had an idea for a Bitcoin game....

Similar concept. All items/upgrades/etc. in game are purchased and sold using Bitcoins. The Bitcoin client will be built into the game to ease the transfer of coins.

The game will also include mining code into it to mine coins.

It is basically a battle type of game where everyone is out for themselves, or they form groups or whatever they want.

When the combined power of all of the miners discovers a block and gets 50 BTC it pops up in the game (or many coins separated are sent out). The coins fall closest to those who contributed the most GPU power.

When the 50 BTC comes in, it is a free for all. Whoever can get to it first wins. You can fight others, coordinate with others, go lone wolf, etc.

When you get the BTC, the server transfers the BTC to you. From there maybe you need to get back to your home base or whichever.

It would be like pool mining but a game where playing a video game could actually make you money.