If bitcoin makes a few people (dollar) billionaires, so what?
There are over 400-500 billionaires on this planet, maybe even more. Who cares if some bitcoiners will be billionaires, or do you think facebook is worth more than bitcoin? 

Nobody except me and Lohoris working with the accounts feature?

Maybe it doesnt scale too well for sites as big as davout`s sites, but wouldnt that just be a problem of the current 0.7 implementation?
I mean the feature itself is great and if it gets some attention from developers it could scale well in the future, or am i missing something which totally sucks about accounts anyway?

Because installing a database myself and implementing exactly the same on my own would really look like reinventing the weel for me...

Why doesnt some bigger site instead of writing their own code contrubute better code to the bitcoin client?
(that question goes a bit to people like you davout)

I feel the same, it wont last.
They will have to make a damn good job to proove us wrong.

Agreed!  



They have partnered with a PSP, which isnt exactly 'running a bank', but i still wish them luck, they will need it in any case.

sendfrom() makes balances go negative by the fee amount if someone withdraws all coins.

Dont get me wrong, i think this is good news, considering it will make you more 'legal'.
But then im still sceptical, as you said, you have to learn alot about that P2P business and your provider has to learn about bitcoins, it will be interessting to see how that works out.
For example, i would expect ALOT of fraud going on from your 'customers' once you do IBAN accounts with just ID scans, noone else offers this, and especially not in combination with a no-chargeback currency.
People will abuse your service like crazy to get bitcoins from ebay scams etc.
Maybe you got KYC policies in place to prevent that, but then i would openly write about it and not just say 'a normal ID will be enough to get verified'.
Because thats how MtGox does it, not ask for ID at all but they could at any moment require notarized passports etc which some people cant get or dont want to send to them.
If you are planing to do it in a similar way then i bet we get alot of angry threads after the initital hype  

I dont think they can insure BTC funds.
And i think calling this a bank is just a method to get this hyped here, im sure there are alot of restrictions a PSP has compared to a bank.
The IBAN thing looks great tho, but IBAN with just and ID scan??
What will the transfer limits be?

You can buy bitcoins with Ukash or Paysafecard on our site:
http://bitexchange.biz/

Official TOR hidden service mirror:
http://xgmodwtdmchknr7y.onion/

We exchange paysafecard and ukash to bitcoin on:

http://bitexchange.biz/

Ok nice, didnt know that, thanks.

So the wallet.dat contains puplic/private keys, transactions, and the block count where it got all previous transactions ?

If i didnt use a wallet for some time, it will rescan the blockchain i got on my disk without downloading it again? Is there any status shown on the client which tells me if the wallet is up to date with the blockchain dat files?
Because i didnt really notice something like that so i guessed its better not to recieve coins on wallets which arent currently 'loaded' while updating the blockchain with another wallet.

let user select wallet file with -wallet=foo.dat




Whats the problem with using multiple wallet files with the same bitcoin client?

Ok you could miss recieved coins if you update the blockchain when there is the wrong wallet loaded, but if you make sure that doesnt happen, is there any technical reason why i cant make 10 wallets and load them when needed?

Because im already doing that and didnt have any problem so far 

Maybe that will raise bitcoin price even more than the reward drop 

Bitcoins can be anonymous if you know what you do, to not get addresses tied together use multiple wallets.

Or just buy Paysafecard or Ukash and exchange through us:

http://bitexchange.biz/
Or our TOR hidden service:
http://xgmodwtdmchknr7y.onion/

Easy and anonymous.

Nearly noone will be able to access this, even if its technically possible.

Just generate yourself a nice .onion domain, then everyone using tor browser bundle or onion.to can access your site.

We also have a mirror of our site on TOR:
http://xgmodwtdmchknr7y.onion/

My guess is it will reach a stable 30$ some time next year.
Either that or all the way to the moon  

Also check out https://coinurl.com/

Are there any alternatives to bitpay yet?

If mtgox got most buyers/traders, and bitpay most merchants, for my taste Bitcoin would depend a bit too much on those 2 companys.

How would that work?

What did you read about it pro/con?

What i noticed:

- the onion domain runs on freedom hosting.
- they had their domain seized so if its a honeypot then they dont have much power?!

Anyway i like it because it works good, except that the roundcube theme update sucks.
Always use encryption if data is really sensitive.

Most likely if you only add Bitcoin checkout you wont have many people use it, maybe 1 out of 1000.
But if you make a few postings here from time to time promoting your shop, im sure it will be worth the time.

Especially for small sites its a win/win situation, bitcoin gets promotion and your site gets promotion.