They're doing some website remodeling today. Not sure what that has to do with the backend, but it probably has their attention right now.

poop. 

Trying to do something similar with a website that can take an instawallet URL and cash it out as Paypal within seconds, with possibly a browser extension or a javascript embed that can pull from your balance with one currency to accept another that you would otherwise never use, be it BTC, LTC or PP.

With Hulu and Netflix and Youtube and such, we have a lot of choice for how we entertain ourselves when everyone can produce everything they could possibly want. But there still is that niche of people who want to just veg out infront of a screen and just explore what is out there. Something like what NeoToonami is trying to do, but with Podcasts, Public Domain Movies, and all content free and legal. Would you be interested if there was a Justin.tv or some sort of live stream you could reliably tune into 24/7 to have something to watch, and what would your content bent be? (I'd personally throw it full of Produced Media for the Internet from Vodo, Blip, and the like, while filling it out with content from TWiT, Rev3, and old movies. Maybe some Channel Awesome stuff if they aren't doing something like this already. 

Message away.

And that's why there has to be some form of higher power out there, because it's an asshole. 

Oh, so he isn't going to get a ring with this guy and duke it out? That's not nearly as intresting.

Thinking about getting a Published Album going? 

Kick his ass, Yankee! 

So I was tossing this idea around with a friend, and a lot of the convenience of having a digital currency is not available to Bitcoin because of people being able to chargeback on transactions, making it impossible to reliably trust either party to follow through with a trade. With Credit based solution, there is nothing to hang onto, so you can react the purchase, but conversely, you only need to declare the purchase to be made for it to happen.

What if you used Instawallet or a homebrewed clone as an intermediary? Keep pocket coinage in your Instawallet, and use that to make purchases. Works great, they have a green address handshake that will instantly confirm any transactions within the wallet, and you have the Bitcoin transfer being checked by Instawallet's systems, so you can put coins in an address and maybe using some bitbucket functionality, make sure both parties know how many BTC are in place before you hand over the private keys and they drain the account.

So what is the point of holding a URL for a set amount of currency as collateral for another purchase, when Bitcoin was designed to be a point to point transaction? You have a confirmation that someone for sure received something,  albeit anonymously, instead of the Bitcoins working their way into the ether and no one being able to get a handle on what went where. This opens the gate for services such as Google Checkout to pay for Bitcoins as well as Paypal to pay out, as you have the advantage of setting up the account, ensuring a unique URL and/or Passcode, and sending it to them with the understanding it's just the two of you who know it, so a chargeback would not be an insta-loss. (In theory, you could even have it work with Paypal if you sent a physical notice of login or a yubikey sent with the "digital version." The product being the account credentials, it did get to their doorstep, so it could not have been fraudulent goods. But this is Paypal, and they can order people off their lawn at their leisure.)

Now that we have an immediate and secure method of verifying that Coins went into a bag and the bag was given to the user, we can start to have some fun with the system. Sure, you can have a website where you buy bundles of bits for a set amount with a CC and immediately get them sent to an account, or you can turn it around, and have the server gift you equivalent Paypal monies for an instawallet URL. Pull off some fancy Javascripting, and you can make an extension  so that when you Pay With Paypal with the Paypal button, you can add a checkmark to the page to pull from an instawallet or Gox account and fill up a Paypal you set up 15 minutes earlier for how much you wanted to spend, and even put it on their debit card if your account is verified. But the big one is that any merchant could build that javascript right into their page, and accept Bitcoin to PP or PP to Bitcoin payments, without having to get their hands dirty with one or the other.

I wanted to work on something like this with a couple of friends and keep it close to the chest,  but my programmer and I lost contact, my code fu is weak, and I figured that someone would come along and do it better anyway the second I put a proof of concept into play. Besides, Prometheus open sourced fire, and that never came back to bite him in the ass, right? I'd still like to see it done though, so if a couple of guys wanted to pick this up and run with it or actually help me piece she infrastructure together, I'll be around.

Edit: This might want to be moved to Project Development, on second thought.

I won, then I lost since none of the numbers matched up. 

So, go all in, make a Miner's Day Off where everyone kills their miners for an entire 24 Hours at 0 Hundred UTC, and see what happens then?

Pretty...

And you finally got BTC-e going. Time to do the Litecoin shuffle.

How about a brawl to the wall beatdown between the two of them, and whoever is the last one with teeth walks home with Dwolla and Tradehill as collateral? 

NP, it looks a lot like DuoLingo at first shake, but haven't had enough time to really get my hands dirty.

Anyway, they have a sister site for CLEP tests for college credit. Link in the sig.

Okay, so I recently signed up for a website called InstaCert in the hopes to knock out a couple Clep Tests. From what I've gathered, they have a pretty decent setup. and I might be able to cut a year off of my time. Anyway, important bit.

https://www.instantcert.com/order.php4?discount=84905

This is my affiliate code, it nets you $5 off a month-long subscription, and kicks $8 to me. There's a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee, so if you aren't satisfied, there we go.

I'm thinking about offering maybe .1BTC for everyone who PM's me that they've signed up and I can confirm it. Obviously that won't pay for the service, but if you wanted to get some easy college credit anyway, it's a nice bonus.

If you're willing to sign up with Facebook, then Spanish Hour is running a promo on Spanish Preperation as a freebie.

http://www.spanishhour.com/clep.html

I have an Amazon Affiliate link that's sitting around, doing not much of anything, so would it be kosher by Amazon's TOS to have a chrome extension, greasemonkey script or what have you that auto-magically diverts all Amazon outbound links through my affiliate address, and how would I pull that off in Javascript?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/[Product ID]/?tag=[Affiliate Tag]

I'm thinking it should be easy to do a look replace, but can someone do some hand holding and point me in the right direction? My java-fu is weak.

Once over on the site looks like it's been abandoned, seeing that it advertises a partnership with Tradehill, and references delays that may cause Bitcoin Payouts to be delayed up until November 2011. So, maybe?

5; .1BTC per stamp. I derped on the OP. My bad.