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I am writing to the bitcoin community because I am no longer able to continually maintain the following bitcoin services:

• Search Bitcoin (http://"http://www.searchbitcoin.com")
• BTC Economy Plugin (http://"http://www.searchbitcoin.com/plugins/btc-economy-plugin/")

I am still just as enthusiastic about bitcoin as I used to be. I simply do not have the time and money to keep these services going indefinitely. Right now I am a graduate student and I have decided to focus on my research.

Message me if you are interested in running these services for the community. It is my hope that the community may decide to take these projects over.

Otherwise, at the end of March (or mayber even later), I will have to shut these websites down.

- Jared

I was wondering where you went!  ???   You did a great job and it is tough maintaining things. I'm glad to hear you'll stay in the community though!  ;D

Thanks! Part of the reason I have been distracted lately is because my research (at school) is going really, really well. I would be a fool not to give this research project all my effort.

Bitcoin does not move as fast as the rest of life, hard to keep up properly with projects when other facets of life need to be attended to as well.  You have given so much man, I hope the Tradehill guys see this post, I like a lot of the entities within Bitcoin they get, I'm sure they would be able to use some of the things you have done with Bitcoin.com.

+1 I couldn't agree more with BitcoinPorn.  We need to help you find someone like TradeHill to take over your great work.

How about opensourcing them?

I am open to that idea. I don't mind sharing the code. If you are interested in a specific aspect of it, I can email you it.

The service, though, requires a backend it keep it running. I won't be able to maintain the backend indefinitely.

I'll give +1 to that! It would be really cool if some larger entity like tradehill took over the website. It would leave me with the option of working on the project later.

Talk to Andrew Bitcoiner, maybe he will take them off your hands  ;D

Sorry to see you go!

Yeah he has lots of little bitcoin related sites sprinkled liberally throughout the interwebs.

i PMed him

my site thebitcoinreview.com would love to keep this project going, I would use it to add to my database and i could add to its database. a match made in heaven  :D

What are you running it on? I have a few servers, one being a middle-end VPS. I could give it a shot and run it either myself or collaboratively with somebody else.

Wow,  ??? I'm totally sorry I didn't put 1 and 1 together.

Good match!

Bump

P.S. Who is Andrew Bitcoiner ?

you dont want to hand it over to me?


this thread should have been moved to project dev.

That's his forum name, search the member's section.