I think it would be a good idea to do not so much a Bitcoin OS but a general privacy OS. It would have bitcoin functionality, automated encryption of everything, TOR, bitmessage and other similar software. There's Tails which is super tight for security but expansion is limited as it is designed to run off a DVD/thumb drive. Something in the middle between Tails and Ubuntu would be awesome.

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Building on the privacy idea, I'd appreciate something where two factor authentication is built into the operating system.  Two factor is in everything already... It should be a staple in operating systems too. 

Seems Windows 8 is going to force everyone onto their cloud like it or not. (About as bad as it gets for privacy)

Time to ditch it for good.

A Bitcoin distro will fail for lack of support.

Do you mean you have the making of a distributed OS? Like... part of my operating system is being hosted from the cloud? is it fully distributed? different parts managed by dedicated computers that manage other computers in the same way? It would be interesting to see a torrented operating system being compressed, encrypted and streamed with only the decoding left to be done, that would be an interesting service to pay for, using Bitcoin. ... Or hay, what if all that power from all the member computers was funneled into one efficient super computer for calculations available for everyone... that just so happens to be distributed.

Windows 8 with pre-installed Bitcoin client = bitcoin os? derp

I would like to see a bitcoin TV!  {sarcasm}


What would a bitcoin OS have over any other OS?

And a bitcoin miner. Maybe the app/SW is setup to accept payment via bitcoin.


haha, it shouldn't be the case with bitcoins trading for $100, sheash, it should create more excited and funding for development.


No, that's not what I was thinking at all. That is much better. That is so flawed I love it. Wasn't there some openCloud project like this?

....or one could start from scratch, an alt-coin distro, mine-able only on said distro. No GPU or ASIC advantage....Then again, someone would simply launch a clone army on a virtual server somewhere.....

I'm sure there's some old post somewhere as to why none of this will work.