On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:01:31PM +0100, Natanael Arndt wrote: > I don't know why BitCoin or Money in general should be somehow > integrated in the FreedomBox project? Furthermore I think BitCoin is no > good concept e.g. because of the huge amount of electricity just burned
You don't need to mint in order to do BTC transfers. > to get some virtual money, as the "lottery" comparison says. The full BitCoin client runs fine on my Nexus 7. I see no reason why a lean client wouldn't run on low-end systems. > But I like the idea of Melvin to have a kind of exchange currency which > is backed by resources (CPU time, Space, ...) which can really help > other people instead of being wasted. There are enough real (not sha1 > hashing) problems to be done. You're trying to reinvent a square wheel. Just use BTC. > By the whay: that is,what I first thought BitCoin would be when I heard > of it ;-) If you're trying to maximize the utility of FBX, you need to put on it what people are actually using. Not what you think they *should* be using, and what doesn't even exist yet. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
