Note - the address for printing the bills is print.printcoins.com.


Thank you for adding the code for those bills!

Wow, you are a special level of jerk.

Sounds good, thanks. If the expiration expires on the bounty I will contact you. Also, keep in mind, this doesn't have to be a race between independent developers. Working as a team with others is also an option.

Yep, this was just my personal value to myself. I was hoping that some others would have piled on more to the bounty that would have equally valued it.

I am surprised by the lack of interest (no replies). bitcoind seems like a pain to run on a little server instance, and figured many others see it as an equal pain point.

Let me know if you are a developer that is about to start on this bounty. Otherwise I might just have to dust off my java knowledge hack it up myself.

I am thinking that it should be implemented in such a way that it would respond in the same ways as the bitcoind interface so that web services would use the same libraries for accessing them. I would drop the account feature though as it doesn't seem needed.

Top commands that need to be created:

getbalance, getnewaddress, getreceivedbyaddress, sendmany, settxfee

ideally this would all be done in a simple class that others could add too. minconf needs to be implemented as well since the use case of this is web services. The JSON-RPC system should be set up by default to be locally accessible only, and basic password security to prevent being hacked.

If anyone has the chops to just build it themselves, I am putting up a 5 BTC bounty on the first to complete a fully working version. The project should be open source so that the community can continue to grow it.

Feel free to ask any questions before developing if what I wrote needs clarification.

This bounty expires after 30 days.

If multiple people work on it, just have a lead that can divide up the bounty appropriately.

Anyone else want to kick into this bounty?

Bounty Balance:
RobKohr: 5BTC
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5 BTC

Earlier version. This wasn't a normal Ludum Dare compo, it was just to finish something - even if you have been working on it for a long time.

The earlier version was in PHP and used ajax requests to constantly poll for updates for position of things.

The one I did for ludum dare was in Node.js and using websockets, though unfortunately I never got it to work just right.

Creating a nicely working real time web based game and not using flash is surprisingly difficult.


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So I finally read a good summary of the pirate thing here:
http://www.dailytech.com/Pirateat40+Makes+Off+56M+USD+in+BitCoins+From+Pyramid+Scheme/article25538.htm

Cute story. I am surprised people invested so much in him. Does anyone even know his real name and where he lives?

This all gives me great hope for bitcoin. We have bank robberies, fraud, gambling, drug dealing, and all manner of fun that you can only have when you are dealing with something that matters.

Things that normal currency have that bitcoin doesn't (yet):
*Bribing politicians
*Paying ransoms
*Paying for sex

Once we get these, I think bitcoin we will be an officially accepted currency. Sell all the alpacha socks you like, you only count in the eyes of the government when you can pay off politicians with bitcoins.

Ok, so I have no idea what is going on, but who is this pirate guy and what did he do? Also, why is it so important?

Yep, I have been looking at bitcoinj, but was hoping not to have to roll a solution myself. Guess that this is just the facts, and it is time to get rolling.

Bitcoind is a hog on resources - memory, hard disk, and cpu. Especially if you are running on a little vps.

Does anyone have another suggestion as to something they actually use as an alternative to this.

I am looking for something:
* That can be easily interfaced with php
* doesn't require much if anything of the entire blockchain to be downloaded (something under 50 Meg would be great)
* Will not suck up much more memory than my apache server.
* Can still create new keys for itself and doesn't rely on some outside server to hold my private keys.
* Is easily set up from the command line in linux.
* Is fast and responsive.
* Is not something someone abandoned development on long ago.

These steps:

http://www.imped.net/2007/07/20/apt-pinning-installing-unstable-packages-on-stable-debian/

Got me to bitcoind (0.6.2.2-1).

I added the sources listed (but changed de to us in the ftp domains) and then did:

sudo apt-get -t experimental install bitcoind

This should work well for those who like to stick with apt for package management.

I don't know how debian packages are maintained, but can someone take the reins of pushing this to the stable branch. Most debian/ubuntu users just like to use apt to install packages, and this means there are many machines with outdated versions of bitcoind running.

I followed these instructions to install bitcoind on a debian linux box:

http://bealers.com/2012/01/installing-bitcoin-on-debian-squeeze/

And this ended up being version 0.3.24 of bitcoind. Is bitcoin on debian that far behind the main release of bitcoin, or is it just that bitcoind by itself is at a different version number than bitcoin-qt?

Does bitaddress.org use the same method to create a brain wallet as electrum (if you provide the same seed to both, do you get the same addresses?)

Also, I was considering modifying bitaddress's brain wallet generation function to create an arbitrary sized wallet rather than a single address.

So brainWallet(seed) -> address right now

I was considering doing something like:
brainWallet(seed + '2') -> address2
brainWallet(seed + '3') -> address3
brainWallet(seed + '4') -> address4
...
brainWallet(seed + 'n') -> addressn

To generate any number of addresses based on a seed. You would be able to set the starting index as well as the number of addresses you would like. The starting index is so that you can use the batches of addresses on different services that you run, but still have a single brain wallet.

Does anyone see a problem with the above scheme? Does anyone know how electrum does it?

I strongly agree. I want something where I can specify addresses as inputs.

Bitcoind is ment for coders and admins, and so should expose the most base level interfaces. When I first started with bitcoin development the lack of these features was annoying.

I would amend that. People do take paypal for bitcoin if they trust you not to charge them back. Get to know someone and help them trust you, and they probably will go for it, especially for small sums.

Message me your mailing address. Ill send some.

Thanks rate5, all fixed.

Oregon, I'll happily pay another 45c for shipping.


unclemantis, send me a message when you do (assuming no one else makes one and sends it to me first). The smaller the better for the size, but a quarter size might be ok.

Just created a web based way to print these bills as well as printcoin bills.

Take a look at it here:

http://tinyurl.com/bitbill  (pdf link)

Note: Do not use this set of bills generated by this url. They are using private keys that will be available to all.
 
Go to http://print.printcoins.com to generate your own.

I just added Psy's design. Take a look at it here:

http://tinyurl.com/bitbill

Note: By the way, do not use this set of bills generated by this url. They are using private keys that will be available to all. Go to http://print.printcoins.com to generate your own.