Hey,

are people using skycoin desktop wallet for windows?? how good is it? Is it good place to keep your coins? And is it possible to store wallet for the external hardware??
Sory, im new in these things... What happens if i loose my computer or it goes broken, is there a change to still have my coins somehow or are they lost forever??



Yeah, this project seems to be very interesting..  Im looking forward to see what this brings to the world Hopefully more freedom for the people Greetings from finland.

Update:

The Skycoin mobile wallet is finally up


but where to download it?

Get client working, generate addresses, then verify that Skycoin transactions are working

For Windows:
   
Install virtual box
get mint with mate desktop
install

Linux:
   
For APT based distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, ...) type :

sudo apt-get install curl git mercurial make binutils gcc bzr bison libgmp3-dev -y

OSX:
brew install mercurial bzr


Setup Skycoin:

Open a terminal window and type :

git clone https://github.com/skycoin/skycoin.git
cd skycoin
./setup

The last command will install a Go version manager and the current Go version, it will also take care of downloading all the dependencies.
Now it is setup

Generating Addresses, public keys, private keys:

To get help and options for the address generation command type in console :

go run ./cmd/address_gen/address_gen.go --help

To generate 5 addresses deterministically from a password seed :
   
go run ./cmd/address_gen/address_gen.go -seed="passphrase" -n=5

The above command will print the public key, the private key and the address, if you only want to show the addressess put the p and s parameters to false as in :
   
go run ./cmd/address_gen/address_gen.go -seed="passphrase" -n=5 -p=false -s=false
28MZULXF1AdS8AqzDLPvSKCpERuEhMFNXdX
2kRcdyGTH7gUhq1N4S1kvXUYvgVPA8qdXWS
2e7YTGxJAc3GSNYtTY9mRygBSkQ9dnHSc8Z
W5Cw36K3skzr9whCDuMTgxLA4kFrWJn32f
4R6sGi7ktSJyyKNRHuc7izvgRHJwfu6das

Deterministic wallets are good, because you cannot lose the private keys as long as you remember the password. however, you should use a good password, or a random SHA256 hash and write it down somewhere

A good password may be some (more than 12) space separated random words, this is both strong and convenient for storage purposes (printed), it will also be easier to type if required at some point. Please do note that in the example code passphrase is used, but wouldn't be a good password candidate.

Running Skycoin Full Node:
   
go run ./cmd/skycoin/skycoin.go -web-interface=true
then goto: 127.0.0.1:6420
     
./run.sh


also, to generate wallets and pubkeys
go run ./cmd/address_gen

to run wallet (which is probably broken)
./run.sh

API endpoints

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Troubleshooting FAQ

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setup.sh:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
pushd "$DIR/compile" >/dev/null
# Install gvm
echo "Installing gvm and go1.4"
./install-gvm.sh
[[ -s "$HOME/.gvm/scripts/gvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.gvm/scripts/gvm"
gvm use go1.4
# Add to $GOPATH
echo "Installing skycoin to \$GOPATH"
./install-to-gopath.sh
# Install dependencies
echo "Installing or updating skycoin dependencies"
./get-dependencies.sh
echo "Done"
echo "Do './run.sh -h' to confirm it is installed. This runs the daemon."
echo "README.md has further instructions for building and running the gui."
popd >/dev/null


Addresses for test coins:
   
    hduEBXBtVcUyWy2iEmZaJ7fghN1ekqufsQ
    wHsKo9wwv2o9P8N3oXgEAKN4ks5RZZVhgZ

Hi there, is there a way to generate a "cold" wallet? I mean a private/public key combination that I can store in a text file only?

He is the man of few words :-))) he doesn't like to talk a lot.

Anyway, I have been reading his updates, reports and observations for a year in this thread and I think the Skycoin dev is one of the best in crypto. He is easily in the league of Vitalik Buterin, Peter Todd or Dan Larimar (BitShares).

Personally for me is not about for the possible return and profit from the IPO, ICO or whatever the fuck is this - I am just happy to support the development on a crowd funding basis. If he deliver just 10% of the tech he promises then crypto will gain a lot from this project, so I think all crypto enthusiasts could support this project, without any worries.

I hope the wanna be rich high school brigade and similar caliber and mentality investors that want to get rich quickly by investing their 1-2 BTC lunch money and then pathetically waiting the pump - as we witnessed it with many coins in the past - will stay away from this coin and give time/peace for the dev to deliver.

I am waiting for Bitcoin to hit $200.