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Really nice effort Nonetheless. Looking forward to see how this grows.
Perhaps, we should go grab a cup of coffee, since I'm local to Toronto. :)
Server side generated stuff would've been just great here or on the project I did!
The idea & support for transactions like borrowing, lending, escrow and likely all other transaction types that you can think of are already built into Bitcoin & it's design. They are just not being used as of today.
Infact, I would say it's safer to carry out such transactions using Crypto currencies than with a Bank. Please see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4L7xDNCmA
Satoshi was clever enough to think of all use-cases and he made sure that the design & eco-system would be solid enough to replace centuries old incumbents like Banks. The features are just sitting and hiding there in the protocol to be made use of when there is enough traction & momentum.
Assume the same John Doe :), ordinary internet user, Never heard of XYZ Open source bank, No idea how it works, 0 control over it. Will John trust his life savings with this Open Source bank?
I'm not trying to de-motivate you or diss you, infact I encourage everything Open Source! It's just that I'm attempting to outline that something out there already exists which solves may be atleast some of the problems you want to solve. Good luck!
Electricity, Air travel, Internet? Don't you think these were crazy ideas some day?
With Bitcoin ATM's opening up in Toronto where I live, I see things moving fast than even myself expected. Sure, there will be resistance but it's hard to suppress something as revolutionary & crazy as Crypto currencies.
People won't "bank" when it comes to Bitcoin - There's no need of a Banking system really. And as per your concern around fluctuating value of Bitcoins, It's just a matter of how you look at it and standardization.
Assuming everyone tomorrow agrees to standardize that Bitcoin is the de-facto currency and decides to transact in BTC only, I don't think anyone will be concerned about fluctuation anymore. Item X which retails for 2BTC, will retail for 2BTC today, tomorrow and day after tomorrow. (Assuming no price change, offcourse)
http://jasdeep.ca/2013/07/deploying-rails-apps-with-puma-and...
This should get you started on non-Heroku platforms with Puma & Rails, well for development & staging purposes. I still have to do a post on setting up Puma for actual production deployments.
Anything open sourced?
This was true as of July 2013. Source: A Twitter Engineer working on the Tweets Service inside their mothership SoA Application.
HN community has definitely given us a few ideas and we look forward to implement a couple of those.