If you're interested in Bitcoin, you may want to check out several other attempts at creating decentralized digital monetary systems. The Ripple project is cre

If you're interested in Bitcoin, you may want to check out several other attempts at creating decentralized digital monetary systems. The Ripple project is creating a system where each node can issue their own unique money, and where transactions occur over paths of mutual trust: http://ripple-project.org/ http://ripple-project.org/ I just released Rivulet, an alternative Ripple server that should be useful for website owners who want to let their users engage in user-to-user transactions without having to centrally distribute currency to them: https://github.com/jplewicke/rivulet https://github.com/jplewicke/rivulet Pelle Braendgaard has proposed OpenTransact, a standard for RESTful digital transactions, so that we can escape from this mess of incompatible APIs and help people transact in their choice of currency: http://www.opentransact.org/ http://www.opentransact.org/