Cyclonite, personally I am ready to work with bitcoin today, although
the rest of p2pf may not be, which I'll respect

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Cyclonite <cyclonite@safe-mail.net> wrote:

Hi Guys,

I think there is some kind of misunderstanding here, you do not need to manually generate any kind of public/private keys as with OpenPGP.

You can even sign up in a website as mybitcoin.com and start making or receiving donations.

In my opinion the best available info for beginners is http://bitcoinme.com. Please take a look and you will get your doubts clear.

Best regards,

Cyclonite.

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From: Samuel Rose <samuel.rose@gmail.com>

To: james burke <lifesized@gmail.com>

Cc: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com>, cyclonite@safe-mail.net, p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org>, Sepp Hasslberger <sepp@lastrega.com>, Georg Pleger <g.pleger@yahoo.de>

Subject: Re: Bitcoin donation

Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:30:23 -0500

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:54 AM, james burke <lifesized@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Michel,

Yes, I do have a public key, but yet again,

another nice idea with terrible interaction design and userbility

- most people have no clue about public private keys, so this keeps it a

geek thing

I agree, although as far as I can see, the application at least takes

care of this for the user. Still, your point is valid in that some

people may not understand what is happening.

Most of the users of bitcoin now are early adopters, however. So, if

p2pf did support donation via bitcoin, it would be joining an ecology

of early adopters, and would likely only receive donation from those

early adopters.

- the actual app upon launch is unclear. Where to click, what to do,gah!

I can't really support this even if it is a p2p solution.

James

Seems reasonable. If p2pf changes it's mind, I'm willing to

participate in any experiments with bitcoin

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com>

wrote:

James,

do you have a public key?

Michel

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose@gmail.com>

wrote:

This is a p2p application, so we would need to post your's or James's

public key, and people who want to donate bitcoins would need then

send you the bitcoins by downloading the bitcoin application and

sending it to you

quote:

"Bitcoin utilizes public/private key digital signatures (ECDSA). A

coin has its owner's public key on it. When a coin is transferred from

user A to user B, A adds B’s public key to the coin and signs it with

his own private key. Now B owns the coin and can transfer it further.

To prevent A from transferring the already used coin to another user

C, a public list of all the previous transactions is collectively

maintained by the network of Bitcoin nodes, and before each

transaction the coin’s unusedness will be checked."

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Michel Bauwens

<michelsub2004@gmail.com> wrote:

Sam, can you help us install it on the wiki and blog?

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose@gmail.com>

wrote:

I've downloaded and installed and am game to try with p2pf network

folks.

This could actually be really useful for lots of local economy efforts

too.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Michel Bauwens

<michelsub2004@gmail.com>

wrote:

Dear,

thanks a lot for this email,

it seems that it is worthwhile for us to experiment with this, but I

will

forward this to James Burke for possible implementation

James, I think we should do this, what do  you think?

Michel

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:42 PM, <cyclonite@safe-mail.net> wrote:

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Dear friends,

I have been looking in your site for any reference to Bitcoin for

making a

small donation.

As  you  probably  know,  Bitcoin  (bitcoin.org)  is  a  new kind

of a

P2P

crypto-currency in which the general public can  make donations,

macro

 or

micropayments   in  a  secure  and   anonymous  way  usually

 without

 any

transaction fee involved.

You can change Bitcoins for real money (eg: https://mtgox.com) or

purchase

services or goods in an increasing number of sites.

In  order to  receive  donations you  only have  to  publish  one

 of

your

accounts  as generated  by the  bitcoin client  or any specialized

bitcoin

trader (eg: mybitcoin.com).

Currently  some   projects  as  www.i2p2.de,

 www.torrentservers.net

and

organizations like the EFF are accepting donations.

In  my  opinion  this  kind  of decentralized solution without the

need

to

trust  any  middlemen  is much better than  Paypal, Visa or

Mastercard

for

security-minded people as most of your donors are.

If  you  are  interested in  pushing  Bitcoin forward,  do not

hesitate

to

contact me if you have any doubt.

Yours,

Cyclonite