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We're back up! and piloting payouts in dogecoin. Looking forward to your thoughts.

In related news- it looks like I'm not a money launderer :)

Any news on when you guys will move beyond just accepting Starbucks gift cards?

Would love to unload all kinds of random cards that I get (i.e. AMC, iTunes).

We're looking at accepting more brands this summer. High on my list- Target. Once we've got one more it should be easy to start cranking them out.
Not to sound pejorative, but couldn't this very easily facilitate money laundering? I thought that was already a problem with gift cards but I'm not very knowledgeable.
There are already gift card exchanges for cash- I'm not sure this is any different.

For reference, though, this was initially a huge concern and led to me shutting down the site for a couple months https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7157180 . Since then, I've talked to our lawyers and am confident that the measures we've taken will stem abuse.