Red Emerald, great stuff. Although I'm using those packages in other applications as well and I don't need virtualenv, I think it's good candidate to use in official installation howto. I wanted to learn how to use virtualenv, so thanks for the command, I'll try it on my server and update installation howto.
Definitely checkout out http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/ if you are new to virtualenv. It adds some really nice commands. a) easy_install and pip are using the same repository. You're right that pip is newer and should be used instead of easy_install. It's my fault.
I don't know if it makes much of a difference. I've just been using pip for other things and am used to it. b) how did you managed to install "twisted words" package from pip? I failed to use easy_install because it has space in the name (wtf?). It's why I used apt-get.
I didn't. It hasn't thrown any errors though, so it looks like I don't need to. Running "python -c "from twisted import words"" works without problem. Hopefully nothing is broken lol c) I fixed installation of openssl package in README. Didn't realized that it's called "pyopenssl" instead of "openssl". Stupid ambiguous name conventions in pypi...
Yeah it is weird. apt is "python-openssl" but pip/easy_install use "pyopenssl" |
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I've got a server up on stratum.stitthappens.com. Right now just 3333. I haven't setup nginx to do any proxying yet, although that won't take long. I don't like using apt to manage my python packages and I also prefer pip over easy_install. I used Doug Hellmann's virtualenvwrapper, but virtualenv is also easy to use. sudo apt-get install python-dev python-pip python-virtualenv
mkdir stratum && cd stratum
git clone git://gitorious.org/stratum/server.git
cd server
virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute env
source env/bin/activate
pip install twisted ecdsa pyopenssl pycrypto
cp settings.sample.py settings.py
vim settings.py
./signature.py > signing_key.pem
cat signing_key.pem
sudo ufw allow 3333
twistd -ny server.tac
I'll probably also get the server running on stratum.stitthappens.bit which will be able to securily use self signed certificates and also potentially resolve to a tor hidden service (v7g2e7rdrjpgsmlu.onion) |
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Thanks to support from BtcVPS.net guys, second Stratum node is running! Currently there are two nodes: london.stratum.bitcoin.cz (Linode, UK), chicago.stratum.bitcoin.cz (BtcVPS, US). I just moved around a couple of my VMs and reworked a firewall. I should have stratum.stitthappens.com (California, US) up soonish. I'll play around with ports 80 and 443, but that might take a little longer to get online. Is there a KNOWN_ISSUES file or something somewhere? What works so far? What doesn't? |
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How many blocks have we found so far? And do you know who found them? That's always a fun stat to have on the website.
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How much overlap is there between this and electrum? I noticed in server.tac that the application is called "electrum-server" but it looks like the code is being written separately. BTW, Your code looks really clean.
I'll play around with getting some javascript to connect to the server when I have time. Right now I'm working on a cgminer monitor.
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- Lag time in getting funds into nonprofit's own bank account No lag time to speak of!
How do you get fiat into the nonprofit's bank account with "no lag time to speak of?" Sure the bitcoin transfer takes 10 minutes to confirm, but I pretty much guarantee they need fiat to run. It takes time to get fiat from bitcoin that is spendable. How fast can Mt. Gox (or any other exchange) transfer out? Most bank transfers take 3-5 days so we are back where we started. Bit-Pay.... How do I get paid in Dollars?
At this time, payments in US Dollars can only be made to a US Bank account.
Payments in US Dollars are made directly to your US Bank Account via ACH direct deposit.
An ACH deposit is sent to your bank account EVERY BUSINESS DAY to clear out your accumulated balance. There is no need for bit-pay to hold balances for a week or more.
ACH payments will appear on your bank statement as BIT-PAY LLC: VENDOR PAYMENT.
Bit-pay will deduct our processing fee from each merchant payout. Our fee is 2.99% which is all-inclusive for processing, conversion, and transfer.
The minimum payout is 20.00 USD. If your daily total is less than this minimum, your balance will carry forward to the next day.
Each daily ACH payment sent will appear in your bank account after three business days. If you want to receive next-day ACH for an additional $10 fee, please contact our Accounting department.
The bold parts make bitpay seemingly exactly the same as other services that handle fiat directly. bitpay just makes it so the vendor doesn't have to worry about converting the coins themselves. It does nothing to remove the 3 day wait or the 3% fee that comes with fiat. Although they do offer no fees to charity which is what we are talking about here. |
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Probably what I should do is make a derivative program of Casascius Bitcoin Address Utility that does both sides of the work, and then open source it. Function one would generate a privkey/pubkey file (csv), function two would take the local privkey file and a foreign pubkey file and generate a bitcoin address list, which we would both independently sign and publish.
This sounds awesome. There should also be a utility for taking the two private keys and combining them into a wallet import format of some kind so people can easily use these bills. |
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But I agree that some mechanism for negotiating required fees with miners would be interesting, too.
If only we knew someone with a pool to experiment with  |
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Any interest in this with Armory installed? Armory is heavier weight right now than I think BitSafe was originally designed, but it looks like an awesome client.
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This looks awesome. Now I just need a system with the RAM to run it.
Since it seems that speed and RAM are going to go hand in hand, maybe you could implement a thin client that can connect to armory as a server. (The proposal for Stratum has a bunch of main points already thought out.) That way, lightweight systems (like phones) can still get all of your awesome features.
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- Lag time in getting funds into nonprofit's own bank account No lag time to speak of!
How do you get fiat into the nonprofit's bank account with "no lag time to speak of?" Sure the bitcoin transfer takes 10 minutes to confirm, but I pretty much guarantee they need fiat to run. It takes time to get fiat from bitcoin that is spendable. How fast can Mt. Gox (or any other exchange) transfer out? Most bank transfers take 3-5 days so we are back where we started. |
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Is there a reason instawallet doesn't accept its own green address? It'd be mice if I didn't have to wait 6 confirms if the coins were sent with the green address.
That is a good question. |
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New Electrum server appeared at electrum.bitcoin.cz:50000 few minutes ago. Ports 80/443 are not configured yet.
How are you doing 80/443? Are you forwarding them to 50000? I didn't see anything about this in ovidiusoft's guide. |
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I think my server is working (electrum.stitthappens.com). I don't have a client setup yet, so I can't test. I wish the server could log a little more verbosely.
I'm leaning back towards python over node (bitcoinjs) even though my client will still be javascript. Plus, this development process is much more open, which I like.
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I'm making progress on my mining stats page. http://mining-stats.stitthappens.com/Right now, it is set to watch my miner, but I'll add a form to let you connect to any IP or port. Everything under /api/ can already connect to anywhere (as long as the destination's firewall is open) so it won't take much work. I still need to see what happens when this points to a CPU miner I'm planning on building some simple images out of these stats. I might take the "api description" and turn it into a QR code (kind of like my avatar) with the MH/s underneath. Would it be possible to get pool info via the RPC? It would be nice to tell if a pool is down. I was expecting that everything available via the current command line interface would also be available via the RPC but we just have "summary" and "devs" "pools" ... (that and the rest are documented in the README file) Dunno how I missed that. Thanks. |
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Yes, it failed in reading from config for some reason. jsonrpc library then try to ask on standard input... Unfortunately have no idea what you're doing wrong...
So the username was missing a character in /etc/electrum.conf. Looks like vim and copy/paste didn't play nice. It might be a good idea to log something like "username/password failed." However, even when I put the proper values into the prompt, it doesn't work. I just get the prompt again. It might be better to abort when the values from the config are wrong since the prompt seems to be ignored. |
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Red Emerald: yes, it's only a warning and can be ignored.
What about it continually prompting for the rpcuser and pass? I thought that should have been read from the config at /etc/electrum.conf |
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I'm making progress on my mining stats page. http://mining-stats.stitthappens.com/Right now, it is set to watch my miner, but I'll add a form to let you connect to any IP or port. Everything under /api/ can already connect to anywhere (as long as the destination's firewall is open) so it won't take much work. I still need to see what happens when this points to a CPU miner I'm planning on building some simple images out of these stats. I might take the "api description" and turn it into a QR code (kind of like my avatar) with the MH/s underneath. Would it be possible to get pool info via the RPC? It would be nice to tell if a pool is down. I was expecting that everything available via the current command line interface would also be available via the RPC but we just have "summary" and "devs" |
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Any ideas? I have the username and password set in /etc/electrum.conf so I'm not sure why it's prompting me for them. When I put them in, it just prompts me for them again.
Any extra leading/trailing spaces in bitcoin.conf or electrum.conf ? Did you edit the files in Windows (so there might be a CR/LF there) ? There are no trailing spaces and these files have never touched windows. I don't see why that would even matter at all. Do other people have the "Abe.DataStore" error? |
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Should some kind of secure wallet storage be included in the proposal? This could be used to keep track of any imported keys. Of course, deterministically generated keys should never been saved. Servers could optionally implement it if they don't want to deal with maintaining the database.
I think a rock-solid, secure, possibly distributable key storage could be a very useful feature.
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