Nathan Kennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
> I voiced my bitcoin complaints on -discuss before w.r.t. coinbase.
>
> My opinion is unchanged; I won't ragequit if we start accepting bitcoin,
> but I would strongly urge that:
> 1. Any payments are settled in USD so HCoop isn't subject to Bitcoin
> commodity risk (I haven't read through, I assume that's the case).
> 2. I didn't say this before, but I don't really have a huge problem with
> previously authenticated users (via credit card) topping up their
> accounts in bitcoin if that floats their boat. We already know who they
> are as well as we ever have. But I would strongly urge that the initial
> payment be required to be made by credit card. Or that we have some
> other minimally meaningful method of verifying identity if someone signs
> up with bitcoin, which to me sounds like a huge hassle. Does stripe do
> this? Their bitcoin page seems to have no information.
Thank you for articulating this here, and in the older thread. I
agree with Nathan. I too would be uncomfortable with totally
anonymous sign-ups. Presumably we're not talking about sign-ups yet?
(My personal bias against Bitcoin originates from the couple of times
a whole bunch of the CS department's machines were left essentially
unusable for everyone else by mining processes.)
--
"the lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
-- Chaucer.
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