That is fantastic. You guys should consider becoming a Ripple gateway

This. This is the kind of stuff I've been waiting to see. This is what makes programmable money (Bitcoin) so damn powerful.

We could just make a Facebook app. If you want to send money to someone, it posts on their wall or a message is sent their money was sent. Then they go to the app to redeem it. You could send like .0001 bitcoins to all your friends and get crazy interest.

"Students can cash out their Bitcoins if they like, and the project intends to have some mechanism for them to readily buy their way back in."
http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/29/mit-is-about-to-become-the-worlds-first-bitcoin-economy/

SO glad to see this. Perhaps the distribution will skew to current Bitcoiners who buy it up from their classmates, but maybe less than expected if there's an "official" alternative that the students know is available should they want to offload them without any trouble, and simultaneously a means for them to get back in if and when the buzz really catches on.

I use and recommend Electrum. It's lightweight and comes with a great feature - the "seed", which enables you to retrieve your bitcoins should you lose your computer or it is compromised in any way.

Is it possible to host the dark wallet server on an instance of amazon c2 or google cloud? Will there be support tutorials in how to do it?

"Capital gains, dividends and interest would also be tax free at the individual level . . ."
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/31/pf/taxes/rand-paul-flat-tax/index.html?iid=HP_LN


This is perhaps the single most important reason to support Rand Paul in the upcoming election cycle because it neutralizes the position of the IRS with respect to the Bitcoin payment network.