I would fund this if it wasn't bitcoins

[dominictarr]

There are a few reasons why I'm want to use bitcoins here. Bitcoin is open source money. Regular money is the antithesis!

banks do have an api. but it's hidden to all but a few trusted merchants.

I want to interact with systems that I have the opportunity to improve. This is why I care about open source, even just telling people you have encountered a problem can help fix open source.

on the otherhand, bitcoin has a lot of room for improvement. There is a lot of hype, and the price is going up (speculation) but I don't see much of a real economy. There are a few cases, and I know a bunch of people who are really into bitcoins, but I don't know anyone who is making their living from selling things in bitcoins.

What I don't see much of, is an actual bitcoin economy.

But what do the bitcoin community actually need to buy? there is an electronics store with bitcoin, and apparently a street of resturants in berlin that all accept bitcoin.

But this is normal stuff. You can buy this stuff with a credit card easily enough. If bitcoin is really to be successful, there needs to be a new kind of thing you can buy with it, something that it's more suited for than regular money.

So, in a way, I am trying to test bitcoin here. Do the bitcoin community actually want to have an economy and buy something? something that will make bitcoins actually more useful (and thus, valuable), or do they want to just sit on them and hope the price increases?

So, if you would use this if it wasn't with bitcoins, please explain your reasons.

[ghost]

@ralphtheninja It's http://fez.github.io/! If you have any questions or feedback, we're hanging out in #fez on freenode and I would love to know what you think! Thank you!

[ralphtheninja]

@isaacbw Cool! You could add a qr code to simplify donations. Steal it from blockchain.info https://blockchain.info/address/14LaXZaTHwGz6dy56qQoSnqTYBuS6BEgqA (double check that it's the correct address :))

[dominictarr]

there are also some node modules that can generate the qr code, since we already have stuff to generate pngs, it's a small step to add QR codes. Although, since people are probably already at their computers, is a qr code actually that helpful?

[ralphtheninja]

I can only speak for myself. It's helpful to me because I have the smart phone right next to me with the blockchain.info app. I prefer to keep a small amount on blockchain and don't store any bitcoin on my computer.

[dominictarr]

@ralphtheninja ah, okay: can you post QR codes as another issue, and we can add it to the next iteration.

[jhs]

Another note just to think about:

Bitcoin is actually the easiest e-commerce framework to implement. I've used Braintree, Chargify, and Stripe. Bitcoin is easily simpler than all of those.

• Technical reason: The data model is simple and flexible. Just pick an account, publish it, and wait for funds to arrive.
• Business reason: Anybody can receive bitcoin payments from their site or application without signing up or applying of requesting approval from anybody.

So if your customers or patrons do or could use bitcoin, it can actually the best bang-for-buck to generate revenue.

[aoberoi]

i hope you can start a conversation with the guys at Balanced Payments. they are huge on open source and obv vey knowledgable about payments.