RedLaggedTeut's Journal: Miss Liudmila's enthusiasm for bartering

I've been thinking about a distributed bartering system. Different in some ways from paypal and ultima gold.

It is based on puts and calls and encryption(pkc).
I haven't solved yet how to bypass that some users are offline off the internet, but I think there is a workaround(proxies).

I think that system might be a fun ride.

I know you'll say it won't work, but if it doesn't integrate 100% with the monetary system, even better.

I actually find the idea so good that I'd like to keep it to myself, but I thought I'd better make it public on slashdot before someone patents it. It also would be useless without adopters and helpers, maybe on sourceforge(?). I know I need adopters and helpers because my other idea, the rating system, isn't public yet and I'm too complacently satisfied with the way it is.

Still thinking, any ideas ?

OT. on /.: Thanks to all up- and downvoting my trollish and a little ill-tempered reply to a slashdot article. I admit my homepage needs some polish, but it is there so you can see who I am(for contact) and what I did( a museum for my old web pages).

Oddly enough, the plain look of the page the /. article was referring to caused me to get annoyed, so I should understand the A.C. who found my web page annoying.