Before I started this topic I realized that there would be gender disparity on a forum like this.  That isn't a surprising or thread-worthy topic.  I started this topic because it seemed there were ZERO women active on this forum which is really something incredible.

Yes, I realize the forum software says we have a gender ratio of something like 4.7:1.0, but I believe that is because of all the spam accounts that have been created as 'female'. 

Likewise, based on this map http://maps.google.com/maps?q=https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml the project is dominated by North Americans and Europeans.  Not surprising given that the project is generally discussed in English.  But how about the 90 million English-speakers in India?  Two clients in the whole country?

Interesting idea fabian, thanks for putting it out there.

So is this where we bid to be one of the judges?  If so, put me down for 10 BTC.

I doubt this is about porn.  This is about control.  Porn is just the Trojan horse (no pun intended) to get this ball rolling.

Next it will be wikileaks, then file sharing, then various 'intolerant' media, then Drudge, and pretty soon all we'll be able to access without asking permission is BBC, CBC and CNN.

And somewhere between file sharing and Drudge they'll block bitcoin.org

+1

Does anyone have a link to the interview that spawned this thread?

Some dude in Nunavut.  Wow. 

Great map, very interesting.  Thanks for putting this together.

Whoa!  Taking the battle to the belly of the beast!


Be sure to invite Ron Paul 

If you're on LinkedIn and would like to promote bitcoin to your LinkedIn contacts, there is a group over there now:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3721050

Hromisko, I think this is an interesting idea, especially the 'local' aspect of it.

By being local they will more quickly be able to match buyers and sellers for face to face transactions.  Right now bitcoin is useful only on the internet because there are too few of us and we're spread all over the globe.  By focusing locally it could spur the development of bitcoin mobile apps, the use of QR, and the development of offline business accepting a bitcoin-like currency.

Of course they won't be able to strictly limit the use of their currency to a designated geographic area, but practically speaking no one in Brazil will have a use for their currency if 90% of the accepting businesses are operating offline somewhere in central Europe.

Please keep us up to date with this project, I will be interested in seeing how it turns out.


We'll see how that works out with Chimerica.  Maybe, maybe not.

+1

And content I would want to buy.

Yes I would like Tapatalk.

Along with the oft-mentioned email notifications.

The hardest part of making this work is getting the content providers to join.

So you could save time building it by using Joomla + the Maian Media extension.

Or you could just use this free script.

Or you could use Joomla + Virtuemart since Mike G. has already built a bitcoin plugin for that.

Building a plugin means having to convert every content provider that uses Disqus one at a time.  That would be plan B, I think.

If we expose one of these comment providers (or both) to bitcoin and they choose to adopt it, that is a much bigger promotional boost for bitcoin than us simply building a plugin.

The main goal, I think, is to gain exposure for bitcoin, not just to solve the technical problem with a plugin.

I'm still hoping someone on here has a personal connection with somebody on http://disqus.com/about/, if not 1 degree of separation than 2 via a Facebook friendship.

Most of you have probably come across Disqus (http://disqus.com/).  They provide commenting functionality for blogs, news sites etc. (see an example at the bottom of this article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/15/bing-everyscape-interior-views/)

Sites use Disqus instead of their own native commenting system because users can sign in with their Disqus id, Facebook or Twitter. 

Great!  So you get more comments on your blog post.  But how about monetizing that blog post?
What if Disqus also had a bitcoin-powered tipping function built in?

The neat-o factor here is if Disqus added the feature to their product, it would be immediately available on thousands of websites simultaneously. 
Now, instead of developing a bitcoin tipping widget and converting website owners one at a time, all we need to do is convert one website: Disqus. 

There is certainly something in it for Disqus: a new powerful feature for their clients, and maybe a commission on every transaction.

If you think this is a good idea, take a look at this page and see if you know any of these individuals at Disqus.  If you don't know any of them, click on their profile.  Most of them also have a Facebook profile.  Go to their Facebook profile and see if you have any 'friends' in common with any of them:

http://disqus.com/about/

If nobody can make a connection, then I'll write something up and send it to their business email.  But I've found in the past that this approach doesn't bear much fruit.

I like your style of putting it out there and seeing if it flies.  But to get around the TOS problem, and to showcase bitcoin technology rather than just the idea of sending a performer a donation, what about this twist on the original post:

Instead of Chatroulette, the Firefox extension is built for YouTube.  Since there isn't a live performer on one end, the performer's bitcoin address is instead placed by them in the first line of the description that appears under the video.  The extension is able to identify this as a bitcoin address and presents the viewer with 3 options: 1 btc, 5 btc, or a text box for entering an amount with the rest of the functionality as outlined in the original post (minus the simultaneous translation feature).

This gives us an actual 'product' to market to content developers and to tech media, rather than just having a method of sending donations via the bitcoin faucet.  I think it is a bit more intuitive to people/media who have never heard of bitcoin.

I realize the idea is now closer to the Chrome extension that exists elsewhere, but by including mini-wallet functionality and designing it specifically for YouTube makes marketing the tool somewhat easier.

From what I've read this doesn't violate YouTube's TOS.

I would donate BTC to this.  Put me down for 50 if it happens

And we just got a short blurb on the EFF blog:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/constructive-direct-action-against-censorship

This might be something mtgox.com could apply for though.

Noagenda, don't build it from scratch.  There is a good CR clone out there: http://www.chatroulette-clone.com/.

Reading the comments Ron Paul is getting a lot more mileage out of this than is bitcoin.

Seems the 'news for nerds' means political nerds.

I'm liking this idea... I've started a related thread under Project Development here:
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2229.0