[P2P-F] Bitcoin @ EFF

Mon Jan 24 16:11:12 CET 2011

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Douglas Rushkoff <rushkoff at rushkoff.com> wrote:
> It is and would be.
>
> The issue there is that they're very tightly focused on the
> developers' community. They want to help small groups collaborate on
> projects, and are not strong believers in the ability of a currency to
> be used for goods and services in a p2p fashion across all sectors.
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You're talking about Bitcoin there, right? (just wanted to make sure
whether you were talking about bitcoin or superfluid there)

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> On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Samuel Rose wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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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