Only reason for a bank would be as a safe place to store my money. And MyBitCoin.com does that for free with an easy-on-the-eye user interface that is compatible with mobile phones.

What are the requirements and responsibilities of an mtgox $ exchanger?

No, no, no! I didn't mean it like that! I didn't even know about BitCoin back then!

I wish I knew about this earlier So many books that I bought and I could've got BitCoins!

Next time I buy something from amazon.co.uk I'll be sure to pass through your link first!

I was more interested in buying them to be honest. I've only got one BitCoin at the moment! But I'm trying to figure out other ways to make more. I have a few ideas, but the payouts would be incredibly minimalistic.

I'll have to see.

Maybe when I acquire more BitCoins I'll set up a private BitCoin exchanger. But I'm guessing one would need alot of BitCoins for that...

Out of interest, who else is from the UK who is using BitCoins?

How about GBP? I know it's a stretch, I don't even know how many UKians use BitCoin!

BitCoin aids the anonymity required in order to get away with buying Gold in WoW or any online game. However the trick is to get the money to them anonymously, which becomes ALOT more harder.

Not quite sure how you would solve that, because then you'd just be ripe for the honey trap.

Thanks.

I think your post refers to affiliate marketting schemes. I'm talking about, and I believe the OP is talking about, a purely PTC business. I feel PTC does much better than sign-ups or surveys as clicking takes considerably less time. Also the referral schemes they have offer incentives for people to attempt to earn more money.

What else needs to be done? I'm not quite sure. What should be in the PTC script? You mean the script that picks up the relevant adverts?

Aren't there merchant tools on mybitcoin.com?

I just looked into AdSense, I apologise for not having researched the field a bit more.

It appears that there is no comparison to AdSense at all...

However the comparison of a PTC site being attractive to the "darker" components of BitCoin is unfounded, I believe. Are you lot referring to adverts which are essentially trying to con people? Ie. the adverts that say: "We can make you $100 into $50 billion in three weeks!"

I think the bottom line, for me, is that BTC seems to be just a novelty until I get paid with them, and I can buy local goods and services with them.

Surely the "right" people are simply the people who se value in the BitCoin? I don't think an industry determines people's faith in the currency. For example. I look at SterlingBux and it does extortionate deals in Sterling, does this make me not want to earn/spend in pound Sterling?

Similarly, there are a bunch of "adult" services that you can pay for using BitCoin, does this give the currency less credibility?

I believe it is similar to PTC. Despite the opinion of them, the fact that it offers a new way to utilise the economy. Without services, BitCoin simply becomes a technical curiosity that emerges from expending computational power.

It's probably gonna be one or the other, unlikely to be both.

Either payment, or shared profits/liabilities.

I just thought of this idea just now and thought I'd check the forum to see if it was already mentioned.

Thank God for the search function!

It is clear that most BitCoin users are internet users. And the key services missing from the current BitCoin market are enough "employers" or people willing to sell labour as oppose to goods. Goods have their limitations as an "anonymous" currency wouldn't be practical, especially with the issue of trust.

I agree that a PTC site would include immense amounts of trust too, but I've seen so many "Bux" sites crop up out of nowhere, waiting for the first member to get paid out, and then post the proof on their forums.

I believe this would work, but would require a joint venture and initial investment.

Perhaps it could be called BitBux or BitCoinBux (I know, har har, how original(!) )

The business model is pretty good, and if we copy a well-known PTC site, like NeoBux, and simply adjust all of the values by multiplying them by 3 it should be able to work. I believe there should be a price for the advertisers to pay in dollars, but paying in dollars would be slightly more expensive due to you currency exchange, encouraging them to get their own BitCoins.

For example. For 200 clicks on an advertisement, one could charge 20 BitCoins, meaning each click is sold for 0.10 BTC or 10 BitCents. They would be "bought" (meaning a clicker would be paid this amount) for 0.03 BTC or 3 BitCents. Any referrals that click would get 0.015 BTC. Rent Referrals is what keeps this scheme alive with so much potency as people want to, essentially, create their own clicking workforce. However, if a referral clicked, they would give themselves 0.03 BTC and their referrer 0.015 BTC, meaning the total potential cost is 0.45 BTC, making a healthy 0.55 BTC profit for each click!

I am willing to give this a shot, but probably would need to assemble a team. Unless you can see flaws in my way of thinking, of course. I just think it would be a great injection to the BitCoin economy.