Recieved. And a first payment of 70btc has been made for the translations so far.

This leaves 30btc available for additional pages added.

We have a need for more developers once again.

Preferably ones who have some time on their hands and are willing to work hard to make a name for themselves and gain experience.

Compensation will be 120btc per week providing all the work that is given during that time is done (for difficult tasks then the requirement is that sufficient progress has been made).

We use fossil for source code management, bugs db and as a project wiki, see more here

rvm with ruby 1.9.2

We have 3 sections of code. The client, the protocol library for communicating with the server, and then the server itself. The first 2 are open source, the last one is not.

This involves cryptography using openssl, sqlite database and datamapper for our object relational mapper.

The code base you are inheriting it an awful mess and currently only works on my home system, so a part of your first task will be to get that up and running(a large part is envirmental configuration).

This is a great project and when launched will become a part of bitcoin history, so get your name in the history books and get onboard.

cryptofo is not a scammer, and mtgox compensated him for his loss (not the full amount as cryptofo was partly to blame with a weak password). The compensation came out of mtgox's own pockets.

Again mtgox took some time to post on the forum, but it was after he had done something. Otherwise he would have had nothing to say.

ShadowOfHarbringer: if who scammed someone? mtgox or barron?

I think you're wrong, and going way over the top on this one. It took him a while to give an initial response, which is understandable. Barron knows right away when he can't get at the funds and gets on the forum ASAP to bitch about it.

This is actually a private matter between barron and mtgox, which barron brought into public to put pressure on mtgox to release the funds.

Whats mtgox suppossed to say, a lot of what has happened is not meant to be public, at least not initially. He can't go blabbing out everying at the drop of a hat. He said what he could. His actions are reasonable (freezing funds, not taking them).

And now, as details are being made available it's becoming clear that barron is a scammer (even in your own words).

What mtgox did, and the way he did it is a good thing. It's none of your business what are his dealings with his other clients.

It is also becoming clear that barron is doing everything he can to continue to put presure on mtgox to release the funds, and at the same time discredit him.
AND YOU ARE HELPING HIM.

mtgox is not an unknown personm he is not anonymous. And everything is very much linked to his bank account, such that it is linked to his real life identity.

This means that if mtgox were a scammer he's either a brilliant James Bond villian or an idiot. I think that it is highly unlikely that he's a scammer given how easy it would be for hundreds, or possibly thousands of people to go after him legally in real life.

I'm trying to get some work done but something has tied up my server that it won't even let me log in with ssh. I thought it was just a really slow internet connection where I am but now I'm pretty sure it's my server.

So I'm just killing some time here.

I will admit, without doing any significant research that governments do conduct war better than any private company ever could. When every citizen of your country is your slave how could you not?

What with being able to take private persons property by force to pay for wars, to be able to force private persons to fight (conscription) I find it difficult for a company to be able to compete with such a thing. And I think in this case competition usually means fighting against.

That's exactly what you're supposed to see. It's just a menu, doesn't do anything yet but it will allow us to workout what people want. That's the whole point, this thing has to be easy to use.

Thanks for going to the trouble of installing, I appreciate it.

Once we get closer to the release, it will just be a simple bundle that's downloaded and should run without any configuration. Which will get rid of any of this messing about.

Could you tell me the output for
Have a look in the directories listed and see if the gems are in there. Tell us the output.

Also try
And let us know the results.

This error means the bmcmenu gem has not been installed, at least thats what it normally means.

run this to see if you have it installed

If not install then in the directory with the gem file run

So the error when just running bmc is that your ruby environment is not set in your shell (or something like that) and just going ruby bmc works just as well.

The error is absolutely nothing to worry about, it's just looking for rdoc which it doesn't need.

Thanks ribuck.

Well this is the development stage, when we're working on basic functionality as opposed to ease of install. Once we do a major release, it really will be a case of download and run with no fuss, across a number of platforms (including windows).

You don't have to use rvm(I did give instructions for you to just go ahead and install ruby gems), it's just something I recommend if you're playing around with ruby.

Don't forget simple charity.

Well that begs the obvious question, if a government collects taxes by "donation" for it to provide services, why not simply pay a company to provide those services instead? I can guarantee they'll be able to offer a much better service at a lower price than the government.

I've never seen a government do anything better than a private company (except mess up or waste money).

Governments, even the best of them are ineficient, and only manage to survive not by competition, but by banning competition, and forcing people to pay for it's services with tax. Once a tax becomes voluntary it ceases to be tax by definition.
   

Seriously your best option is to install rvm, and use that to install various versions of ruby, it makes it really easy.

http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/

If not then you can try to install ruby-gems

Download http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.5.3.tgz
Unpack into a directory and cd there
Install with: ruby setup.rb (you may need admin/root privilege)

Good idea, not only would this bring more development resources to bitcoin but also a lot of publicity.

Demo client ready
The working title of our stock market platform is BlackMarket.

Were building a client that will be available under the FreeBSD licence.

The client (bmc) is a console based application, because of the cryptography involved trades cannot be made using the web browser currently. One of the goals of this client is to make it very easy to use.

And so, with much thanks to Ryland Taylor-Almanza who is working on this we have the first available user interface to play with.

You'll need Linux, and a working installation of ruby(we're using 1.9.2 but I think 1.8.6/7 may work, have not tested).

Files to download are bmcmenu-0.0.1.gem and bmc

Install with
then run bmc from the same directory with


I would recommend anyone who is investing in this to give the client interface a try and make any suggestions.

All suggestions welcome, also before anyone asks, the client when finally ready will automatically create a new trade account on the server when run for the first time, so it should be almost zero config to start using.

Demo client ready
The working title of our stock market platform is BlackMarket.

Were building a client that will be available under the FreeBSD licence.

The client (bmc) is a console based application, because of the cryptography involved trades cannot be make using the web browser currently. One of the goals of this client is to make it very easy to use.

And so, with much thanks to Ryland Taylor-Almanza who is working on this we have the first available user interface to play with.

You'll need Linux, and a working installation of ruby(we're using 1.9.2 but I think 1.8.6/7 may work, have not tested).

Files to download are bmcmenu-0.0.1.gem and bmc

Install with
then run bmc from the same directory with


I would recommend anyone who is investing in this to give the client interface a try and make any suggestions.

All suggestions welcome, also before anyone asks, the client when finally ready will automatically create a new trade account on the server when run for the first time, so it should be almost zero config to start using.

Thats Finn right? Nice to see someone from Ireland on the board, I spent a long time there. I dont think I will be going back.