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Title: how much btc fund is needed for a better open souce bitcoin client? Post by: nakowa on July 26, 2011, 05:31:30 AM We NEED a better client.
BUT we shouldn't wait. WE can collectively pay programmers, raise a fund, evev share revenue once it profit. Anyone interrested? ====================== Two most wanted features: 1. encrypted wallet file 2. multiple wallet management Title: Re: how much btc fund is needed for a better open souce bitcoin client? Post by: JoelKatz on July 26, 2011, 06:22:12 AM If you want to do this, what I would do is start working on a list of needed improvements. Post them here and let people comment on whether they're important, poorly thought out, or whatever. Then start gathering contributions towards a bounty fund. Put a bounty on each improvement that gets some agreement and document what has to be done to claim them. (Is submitting a patch sufficient? Is a pull request? Must it be accepted into the client?) Then perhaps break the larger tasks into sub-tasks and put on intermediate bounties.
It was an offer of a 20 BTC bounty that got me started looking at the bitcoin client code. So it definitely works. Title: Re: how much btc fund is needed for a better open souce bitcoin client? Post by: nakowa on July 26, 2011, 06:39:58 AM If you want to do this, what I would do is start working on a list of needed improvements. Post them here and let people comment on whether they're important, poorly thought out, or whatever. Then start gathering contributions towards a bounty fund. Put a bounty on each improvement that gets some agreement and document what has to be done to claim them. (Is submitting a patch sufficient? Is a pull request? Must it be accepted into the client?) Then perhaps break the larger tasks into sub-tasks and put on intermediate bounties. I personally don't think your 20 BTC bounty request is too expensive.It was an offer of a 20 BTC bounty that got me started looking at the bitcoin client code. So it definitely works. But we still need more discussion, and need more bitizen's involvement to get a real start. I don't have the imagination to understand exactly how much finally needed, but I'm personally willing to put some money(including BTC) on contribution to a better client. Title: Re: how much btc fund is needed for a better open souce bitcoin client? Post by: notme on July 26, 2011, 06:44:57 AM If you want to do this, what I would do is start working on a list of needed improvements. Post them here and let people comment on whether they're important, poorly thought out, or whatever. Then start gathering contributions towards a bounty fund. Put a bounty on each improvement that gets some agreement and document what has to be done to claim them. (Is submitting a patch sufficient? Is a pull request? Must it be accepted into the client?) Then perhaps break the larger tasks into sub-tasks and put on intermediate bounties. I personally don't think your 20 BTC bounty request is too expensive.It was an offer of a 20 BTC bounty that got me started looking at the bitcoin client code. So it definitely works. But we still need more discussion, and need more bitizen's involvement to get a real start. I don't have the imagination to understand exactly how much finally needed, but I'm personally willing to put some money(including BTC) on contribution to a better client. But what specifically do you want to see? Title: Re: how much btc fund is needed for a better open souce bitcoin client? Post by: nakowa on July 26, 2011, 06:58:09 AM But what specifically do you want to see? I'm on iphone, I'll elaborate several hours later. Title: Re: how much btc fund is needed for a better open souce bitcoin client? Post by: wumpus on July 26, 2011, 07:02:22 AM Simply put bounties on the features that you want... they don't have to be substantial just a few BTC.
I have, for example, implemented CSV export of addresses and transactions in my client due to an initiative like this. |