[P2P-F] Bitcoin @ EFF

Mon Jan 24 15:55:56 CET 2011

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Douglas Rushkoff <rushkoff at rushkoff.com> wrote:
> I understand the US aspects pretty well.
> The people making the transaction need a dollar equivalent to be able to
> report to the IRS. Superfluid created a process through which people could
> negotiate that value after the transaction (the seller wants it smaller, the
> buyer wants it bigger).
> Currencies that have dollar equivalencies (Berkshares, etc.) don't have to
> bother with this.
>

Superfluid sounds like a really great way for people to jump in
headfirst with support from Superfluid for the accounting they'd need
to do.

It turns out that bitcoin does have dollar equivalencies. For
instance, you can buy bit coins with US dollars here:
https://www.bitcoinmarket.com/ and here https://mtgox.com/

or withdraw to a credit card here: https://www.bitcoin2cc.com/

***CAVEAT: I've never used any of the above services, so this is not a
recommendation for them, just services I've found. ***

As a programmer, it seems to me that it would be possible to form the
bitcoin codebase and change it in a way that would allow for using
more than one currency in the bitcoin system.

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