Hey guys

Did you hear about Bitcoin before ? No ? To keep things simple: it’s a digital currency, not backed by a central bank or whatever government, but by a robust P2P network.

To get started, you can either:

• “mine” bitcoins: solve the previous chainblock to validate the transactions, .. and win some new bitcoins (very hard now)
• join a mining pool, to share the effort and win very little but very often
• exchange currencies to/from bitcoins (fastest way to get bitcoins, but the exchange rates vary very much and you have to wire “IRL money” to the market)

Some people want bitcoins for their savings, some people exchange bitcoins on markets for benefit. With bitcoins you can already buy web hosting and VPN access, web developing and design, but also “material” like art, clothing, food and so on (overview on the Bitcoin wiki). There is one sex toy seller, but very little and mainly US (no onahole spotted).

Bitcoin transactions are done from {some cryptographic address} to {some cryptographic address}: new Bitcoin addresses can be generated at will, and can’t be backtraced to a specific person or IP without access to your hard drive (and if the wallet file is unencrypted). This makes it very convenient to preserve privacy for fast and reliable worldwide service and that’s why I accept Bitcoin donations (look on the right, just below the “Recent comments”). But how much do you want to donate, if it’s to help me buy one onahole ? That’s what lead us to the main point:

My price script now converts prices into Bitcoin too, for each onahole and for each vendor.

USD / BTC exchange rate is updated every 24 hours, values are updated depending on the vendor (30 days for J-List, 6 days for NLS and 1 day for Amazon). Should give an insight of the price without overloading the servers, if you want to track bitcoin prices in real time, just follow Mt.Gox charts

Next idea is somewhat tricky: an interactive “shopping list”. We’ll see if I can bring this together tomorrow Could be fun to use.