Re: [foaf-dev] Proposal: :bitcoin

On 23 September 2011 16:00, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote:
> +Cc: Mike and Rob, from the original foaf:tipjar lunch conversation ~2004 ....
>
> http://blog.foaf-project.org/2004/02/foaftipjar-creative-commons-and-musicbrainz/

I've made a post on the BTC forum about ontologies.

Also started working with W3C Payments group about getting a proposal
for the bitcoin: URI scheme to IANA ... tho that may take a while.

At this point I think we can assume the BTC address is a string, but
at some point perhaps we should not rule out a URI.

I'll get some comment text after some community feedback ... I do
think foaf : bitcoin would be kind of neat especially in RDFa

And just for run check out the latest innovations! :)

http://bitcoinatm.com/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38048.0

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> On 23 September 2011 05:26, Melvin Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote:
>> How about a foaf : bitcoin predicate added to the next cut of the vocab
>>
>> Range could be a string
>>
>> Bitcoin is fast becoming one largest payment communities on the net.
>> You can even buy groceries in new york with bitcoins now!
>>
>> A simple predicate could allow easy markup in rdfa for example on
>> blogs, and robots to perform ecommerce.  It would also work with all
>> the derivatives namecoin, solidcoin etc.
>>
>> We could use the existing account or tipjar instead, but I think
>> adding the bitcoin predicate could make things that much easier
>
> Intriguing! I've seen a few pretty harsh critiques (ponzi scheme etc)
> but ultimately it's the choice of the users not vocabulary designers
> what they do with their lives and money. So if it really has got
> substantial traction, then sure, why not?
>
> So to be clear, the idea is to associate some bitcoin crypto
> gobbledegook with people/agents, such that the ID makes it possible
> for that party to be "paid" via bitcoin?
>
> Care to draft up some text?
>
> Rob, Mike -- any thoughts? Is Bitcoin showing up much in the CC and music scene?
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>