[Freedombox-discuss] Bitcoin?

[Melvin Carvalho]

On 27 February 2011 14:50, James Vasile <james at hackervisions.org> wrote:
> I've read through *every* email the FreedomBox Foundation has received
> since its inception (and replied to almost all of them).  This is a very
> passionate, skilled and creative community, and I enjoyed hearing your
> ideas and plans quite a bit.  I filed as much of it as away I could so
> we'll be able to give a report to our for future tech lead (s/he'll know
> for example that by far the most mentioned feature was mesh networking),
> but mostly I was reading to get an aggregate idea of what people seek in
> this project.
>
> You might also be interested to know that we received contact from
> people of diverse backgrounds-- it wasn't all technologists.  I find
> that encouraging, and I hope you do too.
>
> One thing that suprised me was the number of requests for Bitcoin
> support.  What this support consists of wasn't much specified in the
> emails.  Still, just for the sake of my own personal curiosity, I'd like
> to ask you all: does Bitcoin matter to you?  How would the Freedom Plug
> support it?
>
> In the interest of not being an information bottleneck, if you have
> questions about the content of those emails, I'll try to answer them.

I like bitcoin, it's certainly a vanguard for the distributed cash
movement.  Recently became a part of debian:

http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=3502.0

Also worth looking at:

https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions/wiki

Implementing bitcoin is as simple as linking your btc account to your
profile. I did it in a couple of minutes using FOAF.  If it takes you
longer than that to publish your account, it's possibly a concern.

>
> Thanks!
>
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