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First disclaimer: Before doing any of these see the appropriate legal rules around this as at least in the US dealing with 'alternative' currencies are not exac
by icefox 15y ago
First disclaimer: Before doing any of these see the appropriate legal rules around this as at least in the US dealing with 'alternative' currencies are not exactly looked positively on.
First ideas that just push bitcoins around:
0) Another exchange, but nicer than what we have today. The top exchange is pulling in ~30K+ a week.
1) bitcoin arbitrage bot. Connect to the various exchanges and make trades.
2) future trading. Miners who are buying 8 gpu's would be willing to buy future sales of bitcoin at todays prices so they can 100% be sure to pay back their gpu costs.
Actual bitcoin item:
1) Sell physical 'bitcoins' read-only usb sticks tied to 1 bitcoin that can be returned at any time for 1 bitcoin or some other form of physical bitcoins that be traded around.
2) A debit card backed by bitcoins. Like a UK debit card that can be use in the states, but converts on the fly this would deduct from deposited bitcoins.
Software/hardware:
1) Turn-key software mining solutions. Plop in this linux live cd into your gpu computer and it will generate you bitcoins!
1b) Turn-key mining solutions. We mail you a tricked out box
2) Linode for mining.... Rent a box and generate your own coin and slightly less than the current rate.
Other:
1) Auction site that takes bitcoin
2) Really any service that would take local currency, but use bitcoin. The real kicker would be to find a service that is used all over the world where having one currency would be good. Games and app-stores (android porn based app store?) come to mind.
- adrianwaj 15y agoA universal currency for the internet where people don't worry about exchange rates, and can feel more comfortable purchasing from any part of the world.
- wmf 15y agoSell physical 'bitcoins' http://bitbills.com/ http://bitbills.com/ A debit card backed by bitcoins. Like https://www.bitcoincashout.com/ https://www.bitcoincashout.com/ or https://www.bitcoin2cc.com/ https://www.bitcoin2cc.com/ (but there's definitely room for improvement here) Turn-key software mining solutions People are working on this; I think it's going to be free. http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7374.0 http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7374.0 http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9917.0 http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9917.0 (A better model might be an easy-to-use miner that participates in a high-fee pool, so the developer would get a cut of all mining proceeds.) Turn-key mining solutions. We mail you a tricked out box http://www.bitcoinrigs.com/ http://www.bitcoinrigs.com/ Linode for mining.... Rent a box and generate your own coin http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8523.0 http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8523.0 (Of course, if you buy such a contract, it means you think BTC is going to be worth more than he does. I hope you know something he doesn't know.)
- icefox 15y agoFound this project for printing out your bitcoins https://github.com/bitcoin-labs/paper-keys https://github.com/bitcoin-labs/paper-keys