I hooked up a servo motor to fly a bitcoin flag when a bitcoin payment is made.

[Coiner1]

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[Gleb Gamow]

Something silly I made...

A flag (with a bitcoin symbol on it) goes up in my office when ever someone makes a bitcoin payment.

You can see the flag in the lower left corner laying down when no payment was made.

Donate to make it go up. Somebody else has to donate to make it go down.

How about 200+ flags, one for each country? Again, pay for it to fly, or pay for it to come down.

Next, a fan so others can adjust the wind speed for the next 5 minutes to wave the up flags. Next, a recording of a barking dog, whereupon others may pay to have a second dog barking or make one of them stop.

Get the picture? Soon, you'll have an entire room full of various types of apparatuses, each accepting payment towards for the pleasure of seeing them run. Genius!

Edit: Sport team flags just came to mind. Think college kids spending mom and dad's money to see their colors fly.

But, you better hurry before some rouge college beats you to the punch.

[Cubic Earth]

Coiner1 -  You are a genius!

edit: Paid.  Really hoping it will fly on the unconfirmed transaction.

[Gleb Gamow]

Coiner1 -  You are a genius!

He sure the hell is! Look how he MADE me take his idea to the nth degree. He's a genius!

[Bitcoin Magazine]

Does it fly at half mast when Block chain.Info is down?

[Cubic Earth]

I did!  



I'm gonna buy a rat.  
You can feed the rat for bitcoin.
He can only be fed once per hour.
If no one feeds him, he will die.

[SirChiko]

Nice idea to make few bitcents...maybe if you will hold them long enought, you will be even able to call it an investment in few years!

Does it fly at half mast when Block chain.Info is down?

WTH are you talking about again...blockchain.info is online for me.

[SirChiko]

I did!  



I'm gonna buy a rat.  
You can feed the rat for bitcoin.
He can only be fed once per hour.
If no one feeds him, he will die.

If you'll do so then i hope animal right activist will rape the shit out of you!

[Cubic Earth]

Or, they could feed the rat. 
The worlds first experiment in decentralized rat care.

[SirChiko]

Or, they could feed the rat. 
The worlds first experiment in decentralized rat care.

Maybe you should offer yourself on the human one?

[kireinaha]

This just keeps getting more and more interesting... but a little frightening. I dread the day I need to watch a "feed the children" with bitcoin commercial. "If you don't donate just 0.0001 BTC a day to this address, the child will starve to death."

[Beliathon]

How about 200+ flags, one for each country? Again, pay for it to fly, or pay for it to come down.

Bitcoin is about world unity, not about individual nations competing, that tired old paradigm.

National competition is a metaphor for war, the total antithesis of everything beautiful about the future Bitcoin makes possible

[Cubic Earth]

Makes me think of this story: Liquidising goldfish 'not a crime'  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3040891.stm

But what if you had to pay 0.01 BTC to push the button and the 'Artist' kept the money.  It seems like that would change the ethics at least a little.  Although the museum in this case probably charged for admission, but that is less direct.  Anyways, I'm not really going to let a captive rat starve to death.

An art display which invited the public to put live goldfish through a food blender did not constitute cruelty to animals, a Danish court has ruled.

The goldfish were placed on display swimming in the blenders, and visitors were told they could press the "on" button if they wanted.

At least one visitor did, killing two goldfish.

Peter Meyer, director of the Trapholt Art Museum in Kolding, 200 kilometres (125 miles) west of Copenhagen, was fined for cruelty to animals after complaints from campaign group Friends of Animals.

But a court in Denmark has now ruled that the fish were not treated cruelly, as they had not faced prolonged suffering.

The fish were killed "instantly" and "humanely", said Judge Preben Bagger.

The court had earlier heard an expert witness from the blenders' maker, Moulinex, that the fish had probably died within one second of the blender being switched on.

A vet also told the court that the fish would have died painlessly.

Mr Meyer will not now have to pay the fine of 2,000 kroner (269 euros) originally imposed by Danish police.

The case only went to court because he refused to pay the police fine. He told the court that artistic freedom was at stake.

"It's a question of principle. An artist has the right to create works which defy our concept of what is right and what is wrong," he told the court in Kolding.

The display featured a total of 10 blenders containing goldfish.

After the complaints, the blenders were unplugged and the exhibit continued without the possibility of killing the fish.

The exhibit was created by Chilean-born Danish artist Marco Evaristti, who was apparently trying to test visitors' sense of right and wrong.

Mr Evaristti said at the time he wanted to force people to "do battle with their conscience".

The idea, he said, was to "place people before a dilemma: to choose between life and death."

"It was a protest against what is going on in the world, against this cynicism, this brutality that impregnates the world in which we live," he said.

 

[ThomasCrowne]

How cool is this? 

Simple yet elegant at the same time.  Very nice!

[snarlpill]

That is a pretty neat idea.

@Cubic Earth- Loved the story you shared about the Danish artist and the goldfish in blenders. Thought it was a really interesting concept for an art exhibit- testing people's personal beliefs of right and wrong. Honestly, I'm happy (and a little surprised) that no more people blended them. I personally would not have myself.

snarlpill

[phillipsjk]

Reminds me of Coin-eating robots.

[Gleb Gamow]

Or, they could feed the rat. 
The worlds first experiment in decentralized rat care.

Or, a door opens and the rat enters the snake's cage.

I inferred earlier that you may need a bigger room to accommodate all that was envisioned to date, but now read we're all leaning toward http://www.uniquebusinessesforsale.com/uniquebusiness/unique-zoo-for-sale.

[Gleb Gamow]

This just keeps getting more and more interesting... but a little frightening. I dread the day I need to watch a "feed the children" with bitcoin commercial. "If you don't donate just 0.0001 BTC a day to this address, the child will starve to death."

Now, we're talking a game idea on smartphones. 

Again, taking this idea to the nth degree, what's the smallest creature that can be fed, whereupon once fed it enters a chamber where it, too, is consumed by some creature in a subsequent chamber, etc. for a total of say six or more steps, with the last creature perhaps a mammal of some sort getting fed on a regular basis?

Hell, one could prepay, then get notified via an app that their queue position is arriving soon so that they can watch the feeding live thanks to their support, otherwise view it later at their convenience. The app can also be used to muster up funding for future feedings when the coffer reaches below a certain threshold.

[allthingsluxury]

Very cool. Love it.