You could add your bitcoin receiving address in the description. Or a QR code in the video at the end -- so I can hit pause and scan with my phone. It would show an example of how any Youtube video contributor can be tipped using bitcoins. |
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You can always see the status of a transaction using a real-time blockchain explorer utility, such as: http://www.blockchain.infoSimply enter the receiving address into the search field. |
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http://BitAddress.org will create private keys and public addresses for you. You can then send funds to those public addresses for the microtransaction amounts and then give away the paper wallets. The recipients can use the MtGoxLive mobile app to scan the QR code with the private key (or enter manually the key) and redeem the funds on Mt. Gox, or with the Javascript wallets My Wallet ( http://www.blockchain.info) or StrongCoin. Another method for handing out bitcents is to use http://Instawallet.org urls and hand those out.
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It looks like you might also need a U.S. bank as well.
They don't require that you link a bank account. Dwolla can be used for transfers to other Dwolla accounts without adding funds from a bank or withdrawing funds to a bank. They do, however, only serve those in the U.S. It is possible an account hold will be placed and you would receive a request to verify your identity. |
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No agents here apparently =/
A typical use for Bitcion Agents is where you choose an agent in the country where the order will be placed. So I am assuming you are looking to use the service of an agent who would purchase from Amazon in the U.S. or Canada and then re-ship that to you. |
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At what point does someone have enough disposable income to start saving/investing/speculating? When I have greenbacks in my wallet, they are not there because I am saving/investing/speculating. They are there because I plan to use them in making purchases. Simple use for monetary exchange regardless of your disposable income creates demand for bitcoins. |
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The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything is ... $42.
Ha! I hadn't thought of that. Wow, what a coincidence! |
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how would you argue that the market is wrong and prices should be well above the current going rate? As of October 2009, gold exchange-traded funds held 1,750 tonnes of gold for private and institutional investors. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserveCurrently the value of bitcoin is worth roughly about the same as 1 tonne of gold does. 38.6% of all bitcoins have been mined already. So all bitcoins that will ever be produced are valued today the same as what 2.59 tonnes of gold are valued (ignoring factors like future gold production levels). 1% of all gold ETFs would be 17.5 tonnes. So if bitcoin were to be substituted for just 1% of what gold ETFs represent, the valuation would need to increase about 6.7 times, or about a BTC/USD of $42. |
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transfer of funds independently of location.
To encourage participation, generally consumers can purchase the community currency at a discount from a local bank or other venue that offers exchange. Then, the currency trades at face value within the community. When a merchant needs to convert the community currency out to fiat the discount is then subtracted from the payout amount. Because all Bitcoin transactions are visible in the blockchain, I suppose it would be possible to know that the funds came from a bitcoin address of the community's exchange and thus the merchant would offer the local discount for those funds knowing that they can then be re-spent locally to in turn get the same local discount when spent again. It would require a modified client to change the rules on which coins to use when making a payment so that spending the locally-sourced coins that are valid towards getting a discount can be avoided unless actually at a local merchant. But other than that, bitcoin seems reasonable as the currency to use for a local currency. The biggest problem likely is that the exchange rate fluctuates so every participant holding the local currency ends up becoming a speculator of a global digital currency. |
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There is a service Ubitious: - http://ubitio.usThe problem is there needs to be at lease one purchase every seven days or else the file goes away. Additionally, Ubitious takes 30%. On the other hand, it is released as open source so if the idea works the code can be modified and hosted so that these restrictioins are gone. |
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