Hey,
If all you want to know is how it will benefit you, the benefits are really rather simple and have nothing to do with philosophy or economic theory.

1. Receiving bitcoins is free - no paypal fees, no credit card fees, etc.
2. The effort required to start receiving bitcoin donations is minimal (create a mybitcoin account or install the client, then paste a bitcoin address on your website)
3. Sending bitcoins is easy and nearly-always free. People who use bitcoin tend to be always up for throwing in a few bits to organizations they support, since the barrier to doing so is quite low.
4. You don't lose anything by putting up a bitcoin address - those who prefer to use paypal or whatever other methods you currently accept, can continue to do so. You only gain, potential bitcoin donations.
5. Exchanging bitcoins to USD is quite easy. Selling coins is a lot easier than buying them. (Try #bitcoin-otc channel. MtGox now also allows you cash out via Dwolla directly).

So in summary, from a purely practical standpoint - you have nothing to lose, and potential new revenue to gain, at a cost of a few moments of your time.

how about "no party can freeze your account", "no party can print out a shitload of currency and devalue it", "no chargebacks", "no extra fee on international transfers", "mostly free transactions"...

started a wiki page with some info
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Payment_methods

feel free to expand, i filled in what i know.

there is a reason OTC identities are based on GPG keys rather than nicks. unless you manage to lift mary's private gpg key... good luck claiming her OTC identity.

i can buy that.

as has been suggested - indeed the solution is to ask a user /on freenode/ to register a nick for you /on freenode/, and give you the account details.
you then can log in via tor, change your password, and you're happily on your way toward using freenode with tor, never having revealed your real ip.

the sex related services section of the trade page has been restored, since it is legal by both us and japan law, and thus is not subject to deletion according to the wiki owner's policy.

theymos, for your consideration:
i think incentives can easily be worked into [mike]'s scheme, if you just change the protocol to require the 'parking' transaction to have X fees. et voila, we have incentives. what do you think?

it's a good idea - though the presence of double-signed contract should be optional. would mostly be useful for cases where you (for whatever reason) decided to transact without a contract, and then got scammed and want to post a negative rating. obviously for a positive one, both parties would be willing to make the contract ex-post.

then, just post these bits of data onto any distributed data store, and you can have 'aggregator' services providing data lookup.

try bitcoin-otc

i can't comment on any of the details of the proposed protocol due to insufficient familiarity with freenet... but fwiw i think it's a good idea to have this available.

we may all be happy it is there, if it comes to pass that some $government or some $isp decides to block (or monitor) bitcoin traffic.

i'll sell invites to the main pod at .49 btc

bam.

hey, i have a great idea:

why not let bitcoin.org and the 'official wiki' be 'squeaky clean', and just set up a third-party site with uncensored forum/wiki separately.

that way we can both keep the main project away from any unnecessary controversy, and have uncensored discussion/merchant listings.

i bet 'bitcoinwiki.to' and 'bitcoinforum.to' (choose any hard-for-govt-to-seize tld) are available.

bitcoincomes: please feel free to drop by #bitcoin-otc and post your offers on the book. you might get a few takers coming through otc.

limited supply hasn't stopped gold and friends from being a great store of value over time.

given the way the market has moved... are you surprised that nobody wants to sell you call options?

you forgot a most important detail. call or put?

right.


ok, let's walk through this. let's say there's a guy with address 1xxxxx registered on bitkarma, and there's a guy with address 1yyyyyy as well. let's say 1xxxxx is buying socks from 1yyyyy. well, mr 1xxxxxx can easily look up 1yyyyyyy's rating on bitkarma, and if he sends his bitcoins to address 1yyyyyy, he knows that he sends to the right guy - namely, the guy that he's sending coins to is the same guy whose karma he has just looked up.

now, how about mr 1yyyyyy, how does he know who he's dealing with? mr 1xxxxxxx can say hey, look up my karma, address 1xxxxxxx. but /anyone/ can say the same thing, even if he doesn't own address 1xxxxxxxxx. thus, while the receiver's identity is verifiable simply by sending to 1yyyyyyyy, the sender's karma is not, since anyone can claim an address.

which actually brings up another point - even the receiver, if he just wants to 'grief' someone by having them lose btc, can claim someone else's karma by handing out other people's addresses. he won't get the btc, so there's no gain to the griefer. but there's loss to the sender, since he just sent btc to some random person who wasn't expecting it.

in other words... on your site you need some way for people to easily prove that they own accountX, prior to a transaction.

another note:
registering a bitcoin address to a karma account is really only useful one-way - when you send to a person, to one of the addresses registered on karma, it would provide identity/karma information. however, since client doesn't allow one to send /from/ a particular address, going the other way (i.e., receiving coins), bitcoinkarma system would not be of use as far as proving who you're dealing with.

Hey,

You can get raw data from the sqlite dbs, posted on site:
http://bitcoin-otc.com/otc/

Also, we've done some integration of OTC WOT with coinpal - he posts signed messages of automated ratings for people who purchase, i pull them into the rating db automagically.
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2555.msg89178#msg89178

and yes, as suggested above - allowing users to register with gpg key (maybe as an option - like on coinpal), would allow us to collaborate on integrating any ratings from bitcoinkarma into the otc wot.