From: mmalmi@cc.hut.fi Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:10:06 +0300 To: Satoshi Nakamoto Subject: Re: Bitcoin > It might help to keep the minimum transaction size above an amount > which a typical user would be able to accumulate with one computer, so > that users have to trade with each other for someone to collect enough > to cash in. Aggregators would set up shop to buy bitcoins in smaller > increments, which would add confidence in users ability to sell > bitcoins if there are more available buyers than just you. That might be a good idea. > That would be more powerful if there was also some narrow product > market to use it for. Some virtual currencies like Tencent's Q coin > have made headway with virtual goods. It would be sweet if there was > some way to horn in on a market like that as the official virtual > currency gets clamped down on with limitations. Not saying it can't > work without something, but a ready specific transaction need that it > fills would increase the certainty of success. Bitcoin could be promoted to the users of virtual communities like World of Warcraft and Second Life, which both have millions of users. It would be great if not only peer-to-peer item traders, but also providers of some existing virtual services that already have a lot of customers, were to adopt the currency early on. A programming question: What do you think about using the Boost's program_options to write settings like the transaction fee into a file bitcoin.config? Or is it better to save them in the database as it is now? Having a config file would make it easier to change the settings when running the program on a remote server with a console access only.