The cryptocurrency space provides many new ways to make business. Being already a busy man, I might not have time to realize all of my ideas myself. For that reason, I share these here and perhaps you would provide me some feedback if any of the ideas is worth actual development. We could always team up.
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Free Speech Browser Plugin: Takes your browser’s URL and calculates its hash. Then transforms it to a Bitcoin receiving address and searches for payments made to that address. It will scan through all the payments to that address and tries to decode them as human readable text. It will display the free speech comments on every web page you visit. This way no one can moderate your comments, ever again! Only people who have this plugin enabled are able to see the comments but nothing stops web sites themselves from displaying such comments as part of their user interface.
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Pictures for Bitcoin: All images on the web page exist in 2 versions: paid and not paid. Some .htaccess file would describe whether to show paid or not paid version of the image according to the IP address of the party who sent the HTTP request. The not paid versions of the images would be extremely blurred and contain a QR code and a link to a payment URL. The payment URL will contain a simple web service that takes the customer’s IP and deterministically transforms it into a address:amount payment combination. Whenever the service receives a bitcoin payment, it would restore the IP address from the address:amount combination and whitelist the IP for 4 hours. Since the user’s IP address is now whitelisted, it will see the original images instead of the blurred versions.
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Exchange Gambling Bot: Allows the user to gamble on cryptocurrency exchanges. The bot should run periodically and either sell all the (bit)coins or buy them all back. It would make its decision based on a quantum random number it receives as an input on every cycle.
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AtoMorph Image Morphing: A web service that would morph images for (bit)coins. This would be the commercial version of http://atomorph.org (my Master’s Thesis in Software Engineering).
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(Bit)coin Battle Ships: Provably fair Battle Ships implementation. This is essentially an escrow service that takes payments from the players and then processes their turns since the game is turn based. Initially players set the locations of their ships on the grid and send the cryptographic hashes of their game field to each other. They will start playing as a normal battle ships game is played but in the end they must send their initial ship locations to each other. Both players and the escrow service can verify whether each party has provided a correct cryptographic hash in the beginning of the game. Providing a wrong hash would result in automatic loss and the escrow money would be sent to the other player. If both of the players have provided a wrong hash or invalid initial ship locations the escrow service would keep the money because cheating and unhonesty is disallowed by the terms of service.
Let me know what you think.
