Thanks, yeah its funny you mention fees(somebody was just telling me the same thing) because this may be one of our best angles to market this thing. After all, no servers, no arbiters no fees and no theft! That has to mean something to some businesses.

lol... best movie ever.

Roddy Piper is crazy, and wants everyone to try on his new sunglasses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqKFadyJxwg


and also by the way...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9q70zCJYBc

If its the regular qt wallet then its the same as any wallet. But if you are referring to the markets/smart contracting wallet then you would have to send the coins to the new one. The markets/halo wallet uses multisig for every account (2 keys) and thus doesnt use wallet.dat. However, just use the old qt to send coins to your BitBay address.

Bitmessage does not need to link to payments on the chain unless i decide to replace their pow with time locks. If you have an offer on the market, you do not need to stay connected. However, once the offer is accepted, you should stay connected as much as possible since BitBay is P2P. Pruning the blockchain will not support markets. You cant do markets on the blockchain its way too much data. There are bandwidth limitations.

And yes, we have an Alibaba connection, im thinking of ways to host websites on there or allow vendors something special.

That github will soon be replaced with one of my own. That will be posted in the new thread.

Speaking of 2 day expiration. As you can see the webcam is no longer on the market. It would have to be sent again (the option is in the pending tab).

However, like I said, we will add an option to allow automatic re-submitting.

The markets are definitely off chain. The way it works is it leverages Bitmessage channels with modified Bitmessage source. So nodes keep messages in their memory for 2 days. Every node tries to see if it can decrypt any message which basically makes it anonymous. Since you dont know who is decrypting what.
There is a header which requires POW. So unlike OB or other systems ddos or flooding is hard to do. And in theory, time locks can be used to circumvent pow altogether.

Also, correct me if im mistaken but we are the only markets to be in open beta. Templates will be coming soon. Performance could be speed up dramatically with some server nodes (so can tighter moderation).

I dont believe in bloating the blockchain and i think bitmessage chose the correct model for scalable serverless internet. Nodes can easily choose a network of nodes they trust, ports can be changed to subscribe to certain markets, network can route through Tor (and hopefully eventually i2p), and nodes can most likely even link adjacent networks. Reduce bloat at all costs and of course only download what you need to see. Of course i think more modifications can and should be done to Bitmessage. Blockchains are very unnecessary here, you cant download the internet.

Bitmessage natively will submit messages again if 2 days pass. Then follow by 4, 8 ,16 and so on. In Halo it might be prudent to make that more frequent while in escrow. Not sure yet, for now i tell people to use encrypted gmail accounts for increased speed during negotiations.

Yeah i have a feedback system in place, i just need to decide how many reviews im going to allow. Also a way to verify their reputations and such.

The timeframe is as follows:
templates
multisig staking
NT microtrader
Pegging

Some other things too like making sure the mac and linux build works on all versions and any patches etc. With templates it will be much easier for anyone to understand.

Yeah, if you are staking sure. Staking will be added to the new wallet soon.

PM me with a description of what happened so i can troubleshoot it. What you are saying is that the old orders are still there but the new ones are not? I've wondered if this happens because of changes in your known nodes.

If you used the Qt wallet then you have to realize that the wallet with markets in it doesnt use wallet.dat. It uses two keys (multisignature). However you can send coins from your old wallet to the new one.

If you are simply updating the Halo/markets wallet then we notice that you would have to do a full uninstall and reinstall using the new one we have online. Just always remember to keep both keys that you generate during setup.

Totally off topic, i saw this today and made me laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB4p-5Fhd30

By the way, the templates will handle all the shipping and bank and other info. Cheers. I will enjoy the "tire pressure gauge" maybe i will frame it.  

Also to the community, thanks for the support.

funsponge, this has been discussed. And no other coins will be able to buy that license(at least not immediately). After all, wouldnt we want to prove the concept works first? We should prove that it can revive a coin from the depths of hell. Thats way more important than prostituting the tech. Currently, the only thing coins can get is a spot on the NT exchange. That doesnt mean they get markets and wont get pegging. (Ok i did say it depends on what they want but come on man, ive really got to not make the same mistake i made with trusting the guys who brought me into Bitbay)

Although the pegging will be something many coins will want, at some point it should open up to support other projects but maybe it should go to projects that deserve it. Like maybe gridcoin(does gridcoin really work?). One day, people will want it open source for obvious security reasons. That is a question of when. Should it only be the obfuscated source? What should the license be to change it, should my company disappear completely and free the tech to the world? Would it be too early and not reach consumers? Will the tech get poisoned with the stigma if its used by people with bad intentions? I'm not sure because ive yet to decide whats best.

I know my goal though. My goal is definitely to give consumers tools to eliminate deception.

The only licenses that get sold are to companies that want smart contracts. Not to coins especially not after what happened. Even recently just talking to a supporter about a rebrand after the fork for pegging(i wish i could fork the wallets of the bastards, i dont know their addresses).

Its not about money here, its about making good decisions. What decisions should i make? Currently i know the best decision is to exactly finish what i started and definitely do not take on new projects.

Finish what ive got on my plate before making any decisions to commit further. Plus these projects are massive in scope. Lots of coding. Even when its done, it could benefit from a full refactor for efficiency. Then again, i dont want to be coding 2 years from now.

Hmm... So that means that BTERs address already got broken up. That may explain the 4-5 addresses below yours.

Of course not, i wouldnt dump on the people here. My addresses are all the ones with the lowercase "b" in front of them. There are a bunch. Also I have about 5 wallets with a bigger "B" if u want, i can share those addresses. I can't even use that wallet because it got mixed with my watchonly wallet. So i have to dump the private keys to remove the coins from QT. I can only stake with it right now. Also the top address is most likely BTER. We found out that it was split between me, Lin and Steven perhaps a few others split BTERs address. If they withdraw from the exchange wallet, it could explain the movement. Regardless, i did a withdraw after BTER got hacked and now only hold about 1% on the exchange.

Realize this, if a wallet was selling on an exchange, you wouldnt notice that on the richlist because exchanges don't trade live coins. So its would be hard to tell the difference from a deposit/withdraw for the sake of purchase. Besides, we cant see withdraws in BTC.

Dont worry, im not licensing to coins right now. Ive got a list of companies that are interested(in smart contracts) once im done building out.

Pretty much yeah. However, it depends on what the coin wants. For example, some businesses come to me with interest in using debit cards or perhaps telcom stuff or really its been completely random each deal is different. One guy wants to have me code Halo for large tax swaps (hes a lawyer so his company would be forced to be escrow in this case). To be honest, if a coin wanted markets at this point im not sure what i would say. I'm really busy right now and not ready to take on more work.

With that said, if it was in regards to NightTrader then year, the most obvious choice would be awarding coins a Halo for getting a spot within the markets. But it wouldnt exactly go to "any" coin. Should a Halo be extended to ALL coins? Should Kittycoin get a Halo? How about Flappycoin? I'm going to have to measure the coin by its community, dev and future.

Ive not really decided what is best for the future yet. So i guess any coins interested would just have to talk to me. For now, im going to give a lot of thought to who gets one. I was thinking of Dogecoin to be honest because they are cool and memes are fun. Plus, i would have a lot of fun making their Halo.

Ok I will give that a shot. Thanks.

Bitmessage did not fix this specific bug. I had to fix it manually. Try running it on a German computer and then get back to me ... Sadly, pyqt doesnt handle it correctly at least natively from version 4. Its on my bug tracker to be fixed but havent had the time to look into that one.

What i meant by saving data locally was that i dont save bitmessage data in the default datadir in roaming. Instead, i save to install path. I had to change this manually in their source, its not a big deal. Because on a German or Chinese computer, their username may use foreign characters and those would cause Bitmessage to fail. So no, not every bug is so transparent. Of course, in pyqt my solution will be different however there is two folder issues. One being for foreign characters and another being for windows BS security that doesnt let you write to certain directories unless you run as admin. Oh and i almost forgot. I've got an admin hack but it doesnt work on the subprocesses. To blackcoind needs to be run as admin too on certain computers from the terminal/console. I can just have it called with the asadmin flag. I'm not sure if all systems will allow that though.

Not exactly true, lubuntu, mint and other platforms all differ slightly. Depending on the libraries, this may matter and we have seen it make a difference. Shit even windows distros on windows 7 arent the same! Lots of computers are different. If I had a github for people to pull and run the source, then it wouldnt be a problem. For linux its a tarball but we make deb files. I've even noticed a difference on Mac platforms.

Also, there is the simple fact that 32 and 64 bit is different. We only have 64 bit builds for Linux and Mac. 32 bit for Windows. I used to build windows 64 but regressed to 32 so it would always be the same. I was told 64 bit linux wasnt backwards compatible but have not tested that yet since we only have 64 bit build anyways. Not to mention it runs bitmessage, coin daemons and all the qt and crypto python libraries. So there is tons of things to consider when packaging for disto.