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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Ripple Giveaway! on: April 19, 2013, 02:53:31 AM
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2  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Why don't the Bitcoin devs build the community a p2p exchange? on: April 19, 2013, 02:43:42 AM
So one of the biggest problems is interfacing with fiat. The transfer of funds can be automated (btc seller receives fiat from buyer's account, and btc buyer receives btc from seller's account simultaneously). However, there is no simple solution to get fiat into the buyer's client and no simple solution to transfer to fiat to the seller's client. This could all be solved if the exchange used fiat vouchers similar to the old Mt. Gox codes. These vouchers are always redeemable for btc so companies would pop up that will buy those vouchers from you for fiat.

At some point those vouchers need to be redeemed for fiat.  That either means bags of cash or a traditional bank.  To a bank any kind of voucher means money transmission and banks don't take too kindly to competition to the ACH system.
3  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: transaction fees and negative balances on: May 01, 2011, 04:57:54 PM
Fees are not "charged", fees are offered.  If you didn't offer a fee in your transaction it will have the lowest priority for miners.  Some miners even go so far as to ignore any transaction that does not offer a fee.
4  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Physical bitcoins, take 4 on: April 20, 2011, 11:30:41 PM
So this would be a bitcoin "check" or giftcard that anyone could clear.  Great for a one time usage scenario.  I promote bitcoin by handing out bitcoin "checks" with 5BTC on them.  And once redeemed they would be valueless and useless.

In theory you could pass on the "check" without actually redeeming it, but this would be dangerous as you wouldn't know if anyone up stream had copied the private key on the check.  Nor is there a guarantee that the check issuer did not retain a copy of the private key.

This is not the same as a physical bitcoin backed currency.

Ooh,  I just thought of something.  Public key hardened checks.  I write you a check and sign the amount over to your public key.  The bank only clears the check if you can sign a deposit slip with the corresponding private key.  Maybe too much work for a system not generally regarded as broken.
5  Economy / Marketplace / Re: Buy and Sell Mt Gox USD on: April 20, 2011, 05:22:12 PM
Looking to buy 100MTG 1:1 with PPUSD.  I will use personal payment:money owed method.
6  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Mr. Lucky begins to mine... on: April 08, 2011, 12:12:23 AM
Mr. Lucky may be inclined to give away all of his bitcoin because he already wins all lotteries.  Including the fake international lotteries you get in your spam folder.  Not to mention he knows all government secrets, can read everyone's emails, and listen to everyone's skype conversations.
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