This is a bad idea for FPI to profit from this - see Limewire. Maybe direct donations, but not percentages on transactions ...
If other folk want to use it for donations to developers of Frost, FMS, Freetalk etc great... On Dec 17, 2010 9:03 AM, "xor" <xor at gmx.li> wrote: > Hi, > > I have just read the following Wikipedia articles: > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_internet_banking > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin > > I am not certain whether Freenet can meet the requirements for the mechanism > which is proposed in the article [1]. > I am also not certain whether Bitcoin provides mechanisms for anonymous > transactions. > > However, if we could combine Bitcoin with the mechanism in [1] and implement > it in plugins called "Freepay" and "Freebank" this would for sure be a killer > application: > > Consider Freepay being an implementation of Bitcoins on top of Freenet. > Consider Freebank being a framework for anonymous transactions over a bank > provider who runs Freebank. > > Let the FPI (Freenet-foundation) provide a bank X by running Freebank. Have a > transaction fee of a certain percentage. Allow both conversion of real money > into bitcoins and bitcoins into real money. > > Now, if someone wants an anonymous person to insert a certain content, he asks > for that content on Freetalk and offers a payment of N bitcoins. > If anyone uploads the content, the requester pays to the anonymous bitcoin > account of the uploader. The transaction is non-anonymous as with current > bitcoin-system. The uploader then does an anonymous transaction to his non- > anonymous account in the Freebank. > The Freebank then pays out money in real currency to the owner of the account. > > Nobody in reallife can punish the inserter for uploading the content because > the transaction from his anonymous account to his realmoney-account was > anonymous. > > The FPI uses the transaction fees for financing the Freenet project and it's > bank services. > Anyone else can also provide a bank by running Freebank. > > People who do not pay for inserts are punished by a web of trust on top of the > banking system. Malicious trust values can be proved wrong automatically > because the payer can just show the cryptographic signature of the payment - > the payments between the anonymous entities are public as said above. > > And for creating a Freetalk/WebOfTrust identity, you have to pay bitcoins > anonymously to the seed identities, which come from the FPI. > Because bitcoins are worth real money, spamming can made so expensive that it > will not happen. > As a bonus, the FPI earns money for funding the project. > > In general, publishing good content to Freenet or Freetalk is encouraged > because there will be a "Pay a small amount"-button next to each Freetalk > post, etc. > > This sounds AWESOME. I hope it is possible. > If we implement this, it will cause an literal earthquake in IT news and fund > the project for ever. > > I will definitely help with implementing this after Freetalk. > But someone needs to do the maths, I cannot. > So please, somone figure out whether this is mathematically possible. > > Greetings, xor > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101217/3bbdaebd/attachment.html>
