I've built two more coin logo options with a little cleaner font usage and more desaturated purple. If you like either of them, I can tweak anything you'd like, and make a branding guide for it.
Thank you, your efforts are appreciated, with the future in mind we have found that BMK is already used by financial institutions, "B" is used by the obvious, and so we reduced to two characters "BM" for the icon, and "BTM" for the currency code. I must confess that I am happy with the current logo and alternatives provided by mymenace. Would you mind if I asked you to divert any attention you are willing to give to something else? We have two current needs graphically: - The word "Bitmark" for a full logo to use on headers and the website. example - our existing icon can be found here the alternative glossy logo is also fine to use as an icon prefix
- A logo for Pfenning, a simple "Pf" (uppercase P, lowercase f), 1024x1024 in png, any color but I personally like something dark for this, almost black.
Any efforts you may make towards either of these would be greatly appreciated. |
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I have checked the source code, and can confirm it is using some javascript in a web worker to mine with the scrypt algorithm inside your web browser.
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was there not some discussion of having bitcoin bind to a random port on the specified interface(s) rather than the default port? did anything ever happen in this regard. I think that rpcallowip should override rpcdisallowip.
agree, whitelist rather than blacklist, easier to maintain. |
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OP, subtle cough, we would appreciate any feedback you may have on the approach we're taking. |
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Still looking for SPV implementations being actively maintained.
We can create and maintain an SPV implementation for Bitmark ready for it's release. As we hope to achieve a natural adoption curve without any hype, adding it as an option to the webwallet would not be an immediate priority, however technically we would hope that you would be able to confirm all was in order and have any minor bugs ironed out ahead of time, so that it's ready and proven if and when required. If we implement bitmarkj, and if it is not too much work on your side, would we be able to go through the integration steps required ahead of time to ensure all works as expected? If agreeable then out aim would be to have this ready within the next 2 weeks, and to have proven the integration shortly after, late July or early in August. We are also considering forking multibit, is it fair to assume that there are no special requirements of hive which would not be covered by integrating multibit? Thank you |
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Update and RequestBitmark/Pfennig has been successfully built and tested on all common platforms now. It would be nice to have an additional mac tester today, to use and test the pre release of bitmark/pfennig. If anybody has a few minutes free, please download Bitmark-Qt.dmg, install, and then contact me with a bitmark address for an add node and to receive some test coins. Thank you.
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I'm hoping to reach out to the community and begin to gather a list of your priorities and needs. We aim to ensure the barrier to bitmark adoption is as low as feasibly possible. Some suggestions may include: - A wide range of graphical resources and generic buy/pay buttons
- Web based private management interface to keep track of your bitmarks
- Address signing, so you can prove an address you requested payment with belongs to you
- Full support for transaction messages
- API libraries in the language X
- Code examples for language Y
- Plugin's for open source software Z
- Transaction notifications by (email, websockets, http post, other)
- Simple resolution of conflicted transactions and wallet errors
We will also be analysing end user use cases and innovating for those seperately, this thread is specifically targetting those of you who own businesses, worth with merchants, integrate crypto currencies, those of you in the business sector. Please publicly or privately provide any requirements you can, or examples of existing things in the crypto space which you feel are valuable / make your life easier. You can contact me via PM, email, in the bitmark thread, or open discussion in this thread. |
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Sounds great!
Yeah, sent you the link via PM. I'll be around to guinea pig if need be.
Thank you, again. I've updated the OP with some text to explain what Pfennig is, and how it relates to Bitmark. If anybody has any confusion or questions, please ask, read back through my posts, or encourage me to take a day out sooner rather than later to update readme's and wiki's in line with the project status.  edit: new topic of discussion for future planning Calling Merchants and Crypto Currency Integrators, what do you need? |
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In any case, I have it available if need be. I can PM you the link if you wish.
Perfect, please do, and thank you for your valuable help testing bitmark/pfennig today. I think we will need to do one more test run once I've cross compiled for os-x, and then we can class the code as 'good', release Pfennig, then move on with Bitmark. Latest Update (copied to head of new ann page)- Guriqbal Pandher has kindly donated 0.2 BTC (1/3rd of the budget needed!) to the project.
- Bitmark/Pfennig Pre-Release testing has:
- - been completed on windows vista 32+64bit, windows 7 32+64 bit, and windows 8 64bit
- - been completed on linux, including ubuntu 10, 12 and 14
- - successfully been run through TOR, we need to setup some onion addressed nodes to test further
Project Needs- A further 0.4 BTC total funding
Somebody to provide a copy of MacOSX10.7.sdk.tar.gz, the mac 10.7 SDK so I can cross compile binaries for osx- Somebody to test the client and daemon on fedora
The Bitmark/Pfennig pre-release can be found on Github. |
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Project Needs- Somebody to provide a copy of MacOSX10.7.sdk.tar.gz, the mac 10.7 SDK so I can cross compile binaries for osx
Curious as to why you need 10.7? Why not 10.8? Pfennig follows both the bitmark and bitcoin releases, as bitcoin is currently built and tested against 10.7 so is our project, when they migrate so will we. I'd rather keep Bitcoin's QA process behind our builds. Consider this project as having two development streams which fuse together, our own under bitmark, and bitcoins. Each release of either Pfennig or Bitmark will correspond to a release of our own work, and a new tagged version of bitcoin. |
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Does anybody have a tar'd web accessible / hosted MacOSX10.7.sdk.tar.gz they could link me to?
I'm cross compiling using gitian and don't have mac access to create the file myself.
Thank you.
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Update- Guriqbal Pandher has kindly donated 0.2 BTC (1/3rd of the budget needed!) to the project.
- Bitmark/Pfennig Pre-Release testing has:
- - been completed on windows vista 32+64bit, windows 7 32+64 bit, and windows 8 64bit
- - been completed on linux, including ubuntu 10, 12 and 14
- - successfully been run through TOR, we need to setup some onion addressed nodes to test further
Project Needs- A further 0.4 BTC total funding
- Somebody to provide a copy of MacOSX10.7.sdk.tar.gz, the mac 10.7 SDK so I can cross compile binaries for osx
- Somebody to test the client and daemon on fedora
The Bitmark/Pfennig pre-release can be found on Github.
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Release any code you can for common good!  open-source rulez Open source is the way to go , code should be released. Already is, see the previous post.. although it needs to be generalised and documented a little before it's ready to fork properly. |
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The pre-release of Bitmark/Pfennig on TEMPORARY chains is available here cross compiled for windows and linux. You can find details on variables/ports on the wiki. If you'd like to test installing / uninstalling feel free. To test functionality and get some test coins, or test miners against the build please let me know via pm and I'll give you an addnode and some test coins. To follow Bitmark/Pfennig development see the announcement |
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Update- On the funding thread we have had some interest and a preliminary offer towards our desperately needed (and small) budget
- Bitmark/pfennig testing is underway thanks to some kind bitcointalk users. No reported faults and everything working as expected. Windows Vista/7/8 and various Linux distributions have now been tested.
If you'd like to help in any way, please get in touch.
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I have read many of your post. It seems that you have seriously put great thought into creating an actual currency. The meaning of currency that I use here is as follows: A unit of account. A medium of exchange. For which the intended use of said currency is to facilitate the exchange of good(s) and/or service(s) on a day to day basis by people in a community, on a peer to peer, local and/or global level.
There are many other examples in post that you have submitted that will support my statement that you get what a currency's functions are. Yet this analysis is beyond the scope of this thread, and so I will be commenting on other of your post shortly.
I will be contributing funds on your project. I have one request. Would you produce an itemized cost statement for the following:
Request for Funding
The total cost of resources for the first 3 months is 0.636 BTC, this covers:
3 months of dedicated server for the project.
Domain name
2 base templates, a public facing informational template, and an "administration" style template similar to blackcoinpool.com/dashboard
A small budget for leasedrigs to use on the testnet and to check block time generation as hashspeed changes rapidly, multipool diff drop mitigation
Thanks much , and I look forward in assisting in making this idea/project become a success over time.
Jay
Thank you Jay - Dedicated Server (i7/32gb + NAS storage): $80.15 x 3 totalling $240.45
- Themes x2 (user website, stats like blockchain.info): $45
- Domain Name: ~$11
Total expenditure is ~$300, or roughly 0.5 BTC accounting for fluctuation when converting to fiat and any minor fees incurred. The remaining 0.1 to 0.15 BTC will be used to fund leased rigs for the test chain whilst developing Bitmark. Any rig budget remaining when Bitmark is launched would be used to mine on the main network, and create a dividend to be split between the developer fund and anybody who invested. Today I have made the pre-release of bitmark/pfennig available ( details here) for testing, perhaps you would like to take a look. Please do let me know if you have any further questions, or any particular terms to the agreement. dedicated server usage: publicly it will be used to host the website, a long term stable node, and the first dns seeder. Privately it will be used to cross compile initial releases, to test against pool software, and to build supporting tooling for Bitmark similar to blockchain.info, hence the higher specification of machine and not a generic VPS.It will be a good day when the first Jerky is paid for with Bitmark! update: 0.2 BTC donation received, only need 0.4 more |
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We can but try, certainly there is enough scrypt hashing power to grow the strength of the network over time, without any barriers to adoption. Let us see how it goes. There is more discussion on the wiki home page, and also here. Perhaps a balance is achievable that makes things work well. The pre-release of Bitmark/Pfennig on TEMPORARY chains is available here cross compiled for windows and linux. You can find details on variables/ports on the wiki. If you'd like to test installing / uninstalling feel free. To test functionality and get some test coins, or test miners against the build please let me know via pm and I'll give you an addnode and some test coins. Thank you. |
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Update - Help?
Within the next hour I will have Linux and Windows 32bit and 64bit builds of Bitmark/Pfennig available for testing on a temporary block chain.
I'm looking for a couple of people with either linux or windows to spend a short time installing, sending a few transactions, generally testing, then uninstalling.
Is anybody willing to help? If so please PM me.
Thank you.
edit: the pre-release is all compiled and ready to start testing, I am currently mining the first 720 temporary chain blocks whilst I sleep so there is a balance to test with tomorrow. I will post link to the pre-release tomorrow.
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unless the currency or project has utility to those in the real world, and adoption is the core concern, won't this just end up with a lot of miners and traders swapping money between themselves?
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Update - Art of BitmarkThanks to mymenace we now have all logo variations and branding guidelines available in the Art of Bitmark repo. I'd like to thank mymenace for his concerted effort in creating high quality logos, alternatives, and providing a very professional service. Special thanks also to Allow for his valuable input throughout the process, and contributions to Bitmark Core's design. As the project progresses we hope designers and artists of all kinds will contribute to both the design of Bitmark resources, and share Bitmark related artwork of all styles. Full accreditation will be added to the repository, and on the website (when we have one). Update - Pfennig and BitmarkI am gitian building the project and testing on 32/64 bit versions of various windows versions, and the same for various linux distributions. If anybody can build for os-x, or even better upload a tar'd version of the osx sdk so I can cross compile all releases on demand, or link to one already online, it would be greatly appreciated.
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