But I'm not sure that their plans are still same because this post was made long time ago. Maybe TheQuin can answer better about future plans of Freebitco.in.
that was a great idea for the future of this site, i don't know why we haven't seen anything yet. i was mostly excited about the addition of altcoins and the fact that you could easily exchange them for bitcoin ("a no-KYC shapeshift.io style exchange"), this is specially interesting because they have such ridiculously low withdrawal fees (since they batch transactions) compared to exchanges.
Anybody can create a no KYC shapeshift right away. Just hire a few coders and they'll copy/paste shapeshift's code w/o KYC for you.
The tricky part is how is freebitco.in going to avoid the power which forced shapeshift to implement KYC. If that power (FEDs, police, CIA, NSA whatever your call them) wants to find out who the owner of freebitco.in, they'll find him and those guys are pretty good at intimidating people. They gave Voorhees 2 choices:
a) Go to prison for life
b) Force KYC and keep your business.
Maybe it is going to have a chance if they come up with a decentralized app. Otherwise I find it unrealistic.
yeah but the difference would be shapeshift has only one purpose and without it the site won't exist. but it is not true about this case. if some day there were some pressure from some governments then they could easily remove that particular feature and continue on. not to mention that it could all come down to how much that feature is being used.
for example you could do the exchange in bitsler.com too and this feature has been around for a very long time. i have never heard of any government pressuring them in any ways.
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well there is a difference between a casino's exchange and shapeshift or any other similar service
Bitsler if I'm correct , has around 3-5% exchange fee , some currencies more , some less with the rates taken from one of the services or large exchanges and checked/changed every minute or so
Stake, for example , partnered with Coinswitch and provide exchange off site
Duckdice , Windice and Yolodice all have their own exchanges
you can read their terms to see they are AML compliant , some of the sites mentioned CAN request KYC , although they rarely do so
I don't think that authorities will monitor petty volumes like the ones going through casino's exchanges and only a not ... very wise criminal would risk depositing to a casino to exchange coins there