Re: Global Trade [Formerly: Tradehill Bitcoin exchange shut down for 2nd time in 2 years]

The web already has most of the building blocks we need.

What we need is not have a built in payment API in the browser as that goal
pretty much would kill the initiative immediately. Like any such one size
fits all initiative has done before.

The goal should be to have better general purpose core cryptographic
primitives and encrypted storage mechanisms in the browser. Payments can be
triggered through links, urls, web intents or what have you.

P


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch> wrote:

> Ricardo Varela <phobeo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hallo all,
> >
> > I think the last part of your email offers a really good summary
> > about why I was suggesting that there are topics to be separated in
> > this group
> >
> > > If W3C can get Bitcoin and other decentralized payment media
> > > integrated
> > into the browser, I expect that we'll see a massive jump in what is
> > already a non-trivial amount of P2P international trade.
> >
> > Yes, of course that would be a great thing... the problem is that at
> > the moment, not even "centralized" payment media is integrated into
> > the browser, though.
> >
> > Do we agree that by simple logic, the event "have decentralized
> > payment media integrated in the browser" depends on both "have
> > payments integrated in the browser" and "decentralized payments
> > becoming accepted and integrated"? Should we just try to get some
> > achievable deliverables on the first one rather than continuing with
> > the second?
>
> I think a good goal is: “Have payments integrated in the browser in a
> way that does not discriminate against decentralized payment media.”
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>
>


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