[sudo-discuss] First hack of the hackathon from sacramento

[Romy Ilano]

Thanks rabbit! This is very helpful 

Hacking sudoroom from the Sacramento youth hostel!!! Yay!

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Romy Ilano
Founder of Snowyla
http://www.snowyla.com
romy at snowyla.com

On May 26, 2013, at 10:35, Rabbit <rabbitface at gmail.com> wrote:

> Storing & transferring bitcoins can be done all open-source on your own machine, yes.  To convert them to dollars you have to use some kind of exchange unless you can find a nearby human being to trade with personally.
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> Maybe there's a sudoer who would want to buy all of our bitcoin donations for cash?
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> There's also a directory of people who want to meet up and buy bitcoins in person: https://localbitcoins.com/
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> Failing that, the main bitcoin exchange is https://mtgox.com/ and you can sell your bitcoins there for dollars if you don't want to use Coinbase.  Or you could keep the bitcoins in our own wallet most of the time and just use Coinbase to convert them to dollars.
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> But the main thing is it's best to convert bitcoins to cash within a day or two unless you want to speculate on the price which fluctuates a lot.
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> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>> Yeah I'm researching and we can also store bitcoins on our own servers
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>> I'd like to avoid relying on any particular start up if there's an open source self reliant solution instead.  Which incubator they're in doesn't matter-- even the prestigious ones are very unreliable 
>> I had a bad experience but undramatic wcperience with an api from a corporate giant.. So as mark said let's try open source first 
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>> Romy Ilano
>> Founder of Snowyla
>> http://www.snowyla.com
>> romy at snowyla.com
>> 
>> On May 26, 2013, at 10:18, Rabbit <rabbitface at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> To accept bitcoin payments you could try using Coinbase.  They have a merchant account thing which automatically cashes out the bitcoins you get into your bank account every day.  That's probably better than Sudoroom holding bitcoins themselves because the price fluctuates so much.
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>>> The downside is they take 1%.  But it's pretty hard to convert between bitcoins and cash so that might be worth it.
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>>> https://coinbase.com/merchants
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>>> Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with them except for being a user.  They're a Y Combinator company in SF unlike many bitcoin startups which seem like fly-by-night mysteries
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>>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm working off an iPhone and writing down stuff on pen and paper for the bitcoin payment work. 
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>>>> It's weird how much more productive I am doing it this way instead of typing away on a computer totally online . This is a nice compromise if getting benefits of online vs acquiring focus offline 
>>>> 
>>>> Bitcoin-- anyone else have expertise ?
>>>> 
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>>>> Romy Ilano
>>>> Founder of Snowyla
>>>> http://www.snowyla.com
>>>> romy at snowyla.com
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>>>> On May 26, 2013, at 9:18, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> agreed! HUMANNESS!
>>>>> 
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>>>>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Romy Ilano <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Yeah I think our differentiating factor is our humanness and we don't obsessively focus on monetary profit above all else 
>>>>>> And at the expense of warmth 
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>>>>>> Romy Ilano
>>>>>> Founder of Snowyla
>>>>>> http://www.snowyla.com
>>>>>> romy at snowyla.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On May 26, 2013, at 9:04, Marina Kukso <marina.kukso at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> romy, i can't say enough how much i love this latest comic - i think it captures sudo room so well! looking forward to pasting it all over the place!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> hope you're enjoying the warm leafiness of sacramento!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> - marina
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Romy Snowyla <romy at snowyla.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hello good morning !
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Started my first sudoroom hack in downtown sacramento the cartoon below that can be letter pressed or silkscreen printed and eventually given as an intro card to what we are about for donations
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Maybe we could even print this on the back of circuit boards for future electronics kits-- yes we can !!!
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> My butt hurts from biking all over sacramento -- met a cool food activist bike shop edible pedals that does food delivery from farms by bike. We need to descend en masse on sacramento in the party bus and learn from all the rad people here!
>>>>>>>> 
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>>>>>>>> Sent from my iPad
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