I'm doing a pull request now to add Jon now.

We love bug reports! Fixed.

Just FYI, there are other DNS companies that can do it for as low as $8. I'd call them "horriblycomplexdns" compared to our hoster DNSimple, but it may be worth it to save money. At the end of the day, a simple DNS record is the same no matter what. Will be slower and less reliable, but it will work

You can use whoever you want for DNS. We recommend DNSimple, as do a lot of savvy technical people because they are awesome and have a great API and interface. They also are first to implement the new DNS features.

But use whoever you want to buy and host the DNS and then just tell us the name and... done!

What you are describing is OpenBitcoinStore.com

A community, not-for-profit free bitcoin store hosted by donations. You can start your own store in 30 seconds, just hit "Get a Store" in the site.

We use wordpress+woocommerce+bitpay but it's all integrated with hosting and domain mamagement


We just relaunched the new code this past Monday and we are averaging 6 new stores per day.

Join us! Much more than a store, there's a community of store owners wanting to help each other.

Thank you!

FYI: A custom domain can be setup for your store in a matter of minutes.

Instructions are here: http://openbitcoinstore.com/index.php/get-a-store/custom-domain/

I'll let you guess how much we charge for this service. ;-)

(it's free, of course)

I would like to point out that jaywaka is one of our new store owners from OpenBitcoinStore (OBS). He/she's done a tremendous job launching a business with a store backed by OBS.

In case anyone is interested, you too can launch a store and make a business, if you have a good idea for a product or service to sell. It just has to be something different from jaywaka's because they are doing it too well for you to compete ;-)


Visit openbitcoinstore.com to see how easy it is and rememer: free to launch, free to host, free to sell, no risk.

give it a few days so we can settle, then I will post all the resources on the website openpaperwallet.com and we will start packaging for production prints.

There is one template (layout) and 14 graphic designs that fit into that template.

There's also software (a fork of bitaddress), and instructions (in progress).

I will also be selling "reseller kits", which will include all the materials to set up a paper wallet shop and sell them retail.

Owen,

You will find that we have a very successful and open source project to make paper wallets, called the Open Paper Wallet project.

See openpaperwallet.com and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155847.0;all

All the designs, code, software, website and paper wallets themselves are open source and can be re-used, mashed up, modified, re-sold etc by anyone without permission.

Rather than starting a new project, you can join us there and either add a design, or use one of the existing designs. The end goal of the project is to enable resellers who can sell these online, so you could turn it into a business if you like.

If you are wondering "What do I need to do to license my design as CC-BY-SA?"

The simple answer is that you have to say that it is. It doesn't matter how you say it.

When you post it, put "licensed CC-BY-SA" in the email or post. If you upload it somewhere, put "CC-BY-SA" in the description.

If you really want to, you can put it in the File/Properties (metadata) of the SVG or PSD file.

As long as you say so, somewhere, it is licensed CC-BY-SA and I (or anyone) can re-use it.

Thanks

Now that we're past that horrible contest experience, let's look at the damage.

In the end, I picked the two designs that I liked the most. I completely disregarded the votes and picked the ones I think will sell most for the first print.

Now, you may think that means these designs had less "suspect" votes. That is not the case. ALL of the votes were suspect. Every single design had received multiple votes that I could tell were suspect. This had nothing to do with the designers. All the votes were ignored.

The bad voting was equally distributed among all choices. My choice to award to 75RTUGA and MB Messer, was not a reflection on the presumed third-place winner or the others.

To address any lingering concerns and hurt feelings I have decided to add the following awards, which I will pay for myself:

* Cantor will be receiving 2.5 BTC for the overall effort in this project (liquid testing etc) and his design.
* Timbo will be receiving 1 BTC for his many design suggestions
* Acorn will be receiving 1 BTC for his design in addition to the template work
* Mr. No will be receiving 1 BTC for his design and suggestions.

The same rules as above apply: fix, sign, SVG format, license and upload. Payment after these steps are done.

I'm sure there will be more objections, but I've made my peace with it. I will be moving on and focusing on the next steps. With this final award, the total BOUNTY paid will be 14 BTC. At current prices, I've put in $2,100 into this project. Printing will be delayed for at least 4 weeks, at this stage, until I can fundraise for it.

As before, make your complaints to me personally.

I have selected the two winners for this stage of the contest.

To collect the reward, the designers MUST in the next few days:

- Finalize any minor changes they wish to make
- Sign their work in some corner or edge of the design, if you haven't already ("Designed By The Amazing Bob"). Keep it to a discreet size, please
- Convert your design to SVG format, preserving layers.
- Release your design as CC-BY-SA
- Upload to the openpaperwallet repository (https://github.com/openpaperwallet/openpaperwallet), or send to me and I will upload.

Once this is done, your design is "open source", belongs to the OpenPaperWallet project and you will be paid 2.5 BTC.

IMPORTANT: Any of the designers who wish to give their designs to the project, should do the same steps above. I have no more money, but I will include all the designs and make you famous ;-)

The winners are:

75RTUGA, 2.5 BTC Bounty, with this design
https://i.imgur.com/x8ZkAR0s.jpg

MB Messer, 2.5 BTC Bounty,  with this design
https://i.imgur.com/yInD2q7s.png


The other designs are all wonderful and I am incredibly grateful for everyone's effort.

As I said, this is not the end of the project, but the beginning. The winners above will get a bounty, but their designs will be included with the others equally (no special treatment). We will now create products, make more designs and make a website to promote EVERYONE's work equally.

Thank you all for support and encouragement

PS. If you object to this result or are upset about it, or you think it is unfair - do not reply in public to complain about it, please. Instead PM me and I can take your criticism. Please do not criticize the winners, or the project, or the other designs for my errors!

English expression: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Another english expression: No good deed goes unpunished.

In my desire to be open and fair, I put the designs up for an open and public vote. What an idiot I am!
As punishment for my naiveté, the vote was completely bogusified (that's a scientific word from voting science. No, it isn't).
There was a lot of double-triple-quadruple voting. It became a popularity test, not a design test.

I have no idea who won. The Internets won. I know who lost: Fairness, and my reputation in this project.
Perhaps the project won, because more than 600 people visited the voting site (or 100 people visited 6 times each). We got some publicity, but it was probably not positive.

So, first of all, an apology is due: I sincerely apologize to all the designers for the voting process. It SUCKED. I am very sorry.

I don't know what should be done next. I would like to ask each of the designers who submitted designs to contact me personally and privately to suggest how we should proceed to decide on a good design, that everyone can agree is fair. I tried and failed, let's see how you do. Please, Timbo, Acorn, M.B. Messer, 75RTUGA, cantor and Mr. No. (I think that is everyone), please contact me now by private message.

The worst part is that a few people tried to warn me (Dr. No, MB Messer) and I didn't listen, worse I was dismissive. That's another lesson for me to learn. Now, I will slow the project down, to save it.

Everyone, please focus on the common goal: Providing beautiful open source paper wallets to the community. This has always been about improving bitcoin and bitcoin security, with style. It has never been about the bounty or finding who is the best designer. Every design had great features and ideally every design will be included in the final deliverable. Let's try and keep our focus on that common purpose and we can fix this minor diversion.

Thank you for your support and patience. Even with this mess, everyone has been very kind and supportive.

PS. Of course I will still award the bounties. I just need time to figure out how to do it without it being arbitrary, capricious and offending everyone.

^^ This is absolutely right. The sweet spot is $75k - $125k perhaps a bit higher than above, because of the legal and regulatory costs for bitcoin.



^^ This is the main value proposition for your investment club. It's not about the money, that's not difficult to raise, especially now. It's about the expertise, and that is enormously valuable.

One thing to emphasize is that entrepreneurs are evaluating the angels, just as much as the other way around. My initial request for funds led to interest by more angel investors than I am willing to engage in the first round, leaving me with some choices. From my perspective, a monetary investment from an angel is a means to ensure that they are engaged in my business - their money is the "anchor" that hooks their focus and attention into helping me succeed.

I can validate the premise that bitcoin startups are going to traditional angels and VCs. I am in the final steps of taking a first round of angel investment, all in USD. I am personally investing in BTC into the company, but all the investors are USD.

Speaking to VCs in Silicon Valley, there is a ton of bitcoin activity and interest. They're getting pitches, but they're also looking for opportunities to get onboard the crypto-currency bandwagon.

There is a need for this type of organization. I understand that several bitcoin-veterans have become benefactors and investors in bitcoin startups, but an investing pool would be a better way to spread the risk a bit.

What legal structure were you thinking of using in the legacy economy? None? Or some kind of legal structure like a partnership or fund?

You should always denominate EPW's in uBTC, so you can store:

1 miiiiiiiiiiiilion uBTC.

Update:

I've received interest from a number of authors, copy editors and general support. Since the last message, I have made some preliminary contact with publishers, referred by some friends who are authors with them.

I'm crowdsourcing the table of contents here (a placeholder for now):
https://bitcoinbook.hackpad.com/

Absolutely, the store can price the product in one of more than 100 currencies, including bitcoin. You can also accept payment by credit card or paypal. You can price in fiat and receive bitcoin, if you want, or price in fiat and receive fiat, or price in bitcoin and receive fiat.. etc.

It also supports different types of taxes and shipping and calculates both for the total amount.

I'll keep doing updates, as the rate of adoption is quite impressive and inspiring:

Twenty four stores launched since the last update yesterday.

I also apologize for getting upset. Perhaps we can put all this behind us and move on in the spirit of collaboration, especially since we both want the same thing: a benefit to the entire community.

No hard feelings from me, and sorry for being rude.