Nice!

I might do 'well hidden cash in the mail' here for small amounts.

I would deface bills with "bitcoin.org", but I don't have any space left after I ink on "Of what?" on each bill.

International bank wires? Money orders by mail?

There are plenty of options. Using a 3rd party billing company is only one.

You could always generate your own electricity. I have successfully built large clusters that are nothing more than a stack of motherboards with low power (consumption) CPUs.

These systems are all DC (every computer is DC under the hood) and can be powered easily 12VDC with some 5v regulators in there. Systems like these can be easily powered with arrays of batteries with solar or wind generation to trickle charge the batteries during the day/windy periods.

Essentially I could generate/participate cheaper (in the long run of course) with a setup like this one. Assuming that electricity prices will climb over the next 10 years and that I'd only have to change out the obsolete systems every 4 or so I could possibly come out ahead.

Still haven't ran all of the math yet. Also predicting future electricity costs is a hard thing to do.

It is probably best to price your goods in whatever fiat currency you are dealing with online (usually USD). It is less confusing to the consumer. Trust me on this one. Once the customer has agreed to purchase whatever you are selling -- exchange it on the fly and show them the total in BCs.

This is most likely the way I am going to do it.

Cheers!

Actually a lot of end-user routers (the ones most people use at home) have a DDNS client built into them. That is another option as well.

Yeah, I had totally thought of that too. A magnet link scheme would be awesome.

I have something to sell too. All are digital goods from currently-running businesses.

I have been covertly advertising bitcoin over the last month.

I have a lot of business contacts (over 30,000) in the tech/online business realm. I will start pushing it here soon. (Once I have automation up and running on my network). If even 1% of my contacts start using BC it will grow the network a LOT.

As long as exchangers can keep up with the business demands, I don't see any reason for BC to fail.

Oh thank you!

You have no idea how badly I needed something like this.

I will have a payment library built in no time.

I have 0.2 running on FreeBSD windowed or non-windowed. I am also really close to having it running on OSX 10.4.11. It is true, I had ran into build problems due to UTF issues. I will try it again soon. I have an Intel Mac and a PPC Mac here as well. I should release builds for both platforms.

Peace!

I have information that I can't share here.

Pecunix is good. My only stipulation would be that tungsten gold-plated 400oz bars have been found in the LMBA bullion banking system. There is evidence that gold is being stolen.

If you are just using Pecunix/LR as a "pass-through", you'll be fine.

Side note: Liberty Reserve is a scam. They are fractional reserve lending on a fractional reserve currency.

Lol! I find a lot of this laughable. (All in good taste, guys.)

If you want true anonymity on bitcoin, generate the coins yourself and spend them on digital goods (giving up shipping details would be counter-productive). If you don't have the CPU power, rent or buy more CPUs. When all of the coins are generated, buy coins from one of your friends in person with cash. Mow their lawn for bitcoins. Whatever.

The ideal way would be to have exchangers in jurisdictions where they could easily accept cash in and out of the postal system. The reasoning for this is: no fees (besides a stamp), no banks to deal with, no 3rd parties such as paypal, it's anonymous, they can't claim 'commerce', OR subject matter jurisdiction over you. The value from the received fiat could be re-patrioted by mailing it back out to bitcoin users, purchases of goods in foreign markets that are sold online again for bitcoins/cash in a different currency/paypal, etc. (Really depends on what you are trying to achieve).

Courage always beats fear. Hands down. That said, exchangers need to be courageous. They need to know the law. They need to understand jurisdiction and commercial law (possibly property law and extradition laws as well) inside-out and backwards. If they don't, they are doomed to fail. I am talking from experience here.

If any of you think for a second that you can simply deal paypal/moneybookers/etc for bitcoins and not attract attention from the law (or those who provide the money transmitting services including banks) -- you are MISTAKEN. You may be able to run it for a while without attention, but it will happen eventually. (Again, this comes from experience.)

They try all sorts of underhanded tactics to defend the banking system. They'll demand that you need a license to be a money transmitter. They'll demand that you need a permit to operate within a particular city. They'll claim that you accepted cash proceeds from a crime and try you with criminal charges.

I've seen and heard it all.

It all starts with knowing the law and being courageous.

I wish you all the best.

This isn't a function of Bitcoin. You can just run a ddns client on the same system that you run Bitcoin on.

Problem solved.

I "know of" the man who runs ecache. I suspect he abandoned it due to lack of interest.

Great! I guess this statement obsoletes my last post.

(https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=25.msg178#msg178)

The main issue is that the bitcoin application was designed as an end-user P2P program. (And a proof of concept?) I see it being highly successful in this arena.

However, from the perspective of the merchant (myself, and others) payment automation is currently impossible. :/ We could fork off a console-only version or perhaps just put in some defines that can be switched on at compile time to remove the X11/wxwidgets stuff and switch on a control API. I hope for the latter.

Payment automation needs to be addressed to expand the market that accepts bitcoin as a payment method.

Thanks.

Great stuff! I am going to try the latest SVN on some of my test computers and let you know what I find out.

Fragmentation of the Bitcoin idea should be encouraged. It would only increase privacy and make such systems harder to shut down.