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Show HN: Trade your Starbucks gift card for Dogecoin

• mhluongo 12y ago
  We're back up! and piloting payouts in dogecoin. Looking forward to your thoughts. In related news- it looks like I'm not a money launderer :)
• LauraKay85 12y ago
  Cool
• bernardjhuang 12y ago
  Any news on when you guys will move beyond just accepting Starbucks gift cards? Would love to unload all kinds of random cards that I get (i.e. AMC, iTunes).
  • mhluongo 12y ago
    We're looking at accepting more brands this summer. High on my list- Target. Once we've got one more it should be easy to start cranking them out.
• comrh 12y ago
  Not to sound pejorative, but couldn't this very easily facilitate money laundering? I thought that was already a problem with gift cards but I'm not very knowledgeable.
  • mhluongo 12y ago
    There are already gift card exchanges for cash- I'm not sure this is any different. For reference, though, this was initially a huge concern and led to me shutting down the site for a couple months https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7157180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7157180 . Since then, I've talked to our lawyers and am confident that the measures we've taken will stem abuse.