I could possibly be interested in doing this (I think I can cope with installing Boost but am really not interested in the whole MingW stuff) - does it support just using "nmake" rather than the IDE (I only use the console)?

I think this is a pretty good idea - you might also want to take a look at: https://ubtcbank.com/

(it is using the same sort of approach technically)

Hmm... I wasn't trying to degrade OpenSSL's image at all (it is a 3rd party library option that I use in my project and I think it is very high quality software).

I don't really have a problem with Boost either apart from the fact I do think it became a little bloated by perhaps trying to become a bit like .net or the like.

I think that someone who really cares about their subscription being paid will ensure that it is paid (and not one legitimate email regarding payment for services due has ever ended up in my spam folder).

With regards to refunds that is actually rather simple - just send it back to the address that sent you the funds in the first place (that cannot be cheated).

Bitcoin is much safer than other forms of payment when it comes to things like identity theft (and much safer for the customer because they don't need to give you any information to make a payment).

Seems we are on the same wavelength in regards to 3rd party libraries.

My own project only requires 3rd party libraries for DB, PDF and FCGI (I even wrote my own regex class to avoid the need for an extra library).

Although I do appreciate the quality of code such as boost (I used to contribute to comp.lang.c++.moderated years ago whilst it was being developed) it really can be a pain when a project has so many 3rd party libraries or tools (that's why I currently am not able to build bitcoin).

Understood - perhaps an online wallet that offers such a feature might be the way to go (where you perhaps top up the wallet once every few months so you don't leave too much in it).

Indeed I think that it should be possible to go a bit more "minimalist" (I personally don't use boost either for the same reason).

(wow - I just became a "hero")

It is used to do the ECDSA public/private key generation as well as the SHA256 and RIPEMD hashes.

Oh - yes - also the wallet encryption would be using OpenSSL functions.

That might be something I could look into although I'm not sure that I'd want to run another server just for the one function (but maybe there are some other cool things it does that might convince me to give it a try?).

I think I would really like to use such a feature rather than relying on a 3rd party service such as blockchain.info (not that I don't trust them but basically because why should I waste the bandwidth when I already have the blockchain?).

I would be willing to put up 10 BTC towards this if that can motivate someone not already flat out to build this (payment would be made to the owner of the accepted pull request that achieves this).

While I do think this would be a nice feature (although this might be a little worrisome for security which is already such a problem) is it really a problem to click on a Bitcoin URI that comes in the periodic email bill (paying would be basically 2 mouse clicks assuming you have the client running)?

Maybe - but if you look at the homevpn.com website (as an example) you'll find the following:


So they wear this "limitation" with pride - personally I would much prefer to do business with companies like that (but maybe that's just me).

Actually this is a big reason why I prefer Bitcoin's "push" to other "pull" payment options - nothing more annoying than having to "unsubscribe" to some service you no longer want (especially when they make it hard to do so and even more especially when you're internet connection to their site is not working).

Also I think that down the track clients with automatically scheduled payments will be created (but always with the buyer being in charge).

You probably want to be using the Watchlist instead (since I started using it I never click on "Show new replies to your posts").

From memory I think there is a link that lets you move all the same threads into the Watchlist then just "unwatch" the ones you are no longer interested in.

Bury a physical bitcoin in the weeds which the gardener will only uncover if they have actually done the weeding?

Also there is the following option in Personal Message Options dialog:


You might want to switch that one on rather than having to remember to click save on each message.

Webcam escrow service anyone?

It very much depends upon the UUID implementation - basically an implementation is free to just use /dev/random to create the UUID - there doesn't need to be any prefix such as MAC address and in reality things like MAC addresses are *not* guaranteed to be unique anyway (and therefore effectively reduce entropy) so any such supposed "checks" aren't really doing anything that can guarantee uniqueness - the only really useful thing is how random the source for random bits is (and this is not a Bitcoin concern but an OS and hardware concern).

In any case I think this horse can well and truly be considered as having had a flogging.

Use a webcam to validate the job yourself?

Do you UUIDs?

No check is made for them and they are only 128 bits in size.