The purpose of the site:

- It buys Bter codes at a discount. For example if someone has 1 BTC in Bter we will pay them 0.1 BTC for it.

Flow of the site:

- Person enters their Bter code (actually just the part before the -) and clicks Get Quote button.

- The site validates the code and determines how many BTC it is for.

- The site makes the person an offer of (BTC * 0.1).

- They enter the full Bter code, the address they want to receive BTC payment at, and their email address. They click Sell Bter Code button.

- The site redeems the Bter code and verifies the balance reflects the increased BTC.

- The site sends the person their payment of (BTC * 0.1).

The site keeps all transactions in a database so I can resolve them manually in case of any error.

No fancy design needed. The site is all about functionality.

Prefer PHP/MySQL but Python would be ok too. Must run on a standard Linux VPS.

PM me your quote, how long it will take you to make it, and something that proves you have the relevant experience.

[Edit: So my original idea of buying Bter codes won't work right now because you can't generate Bter codes for BTC or altcoins. It will still work for Fiat though.So instead of the below procedure, if you have a Bter account with BTC or altcoin balances that you want to sell (must meet the minimums below), I will buy the whole account from you at the discounts listed below. Bter's API still reports all of the altcoin balances so I will be able to verify your account balance that way.Just PM me with how much BTC/altcoins your account has as well as you remember and we'll figure out how to do the trade.]

Edit: So my original idea of buying Bter codes won't work right now because you can't generate Bter codes for BTC or altcoins. It will still work for Fiat though.

So instead of the below procedure, if you have a Bter account with BTC or altcoin balances that you want to sell (must meet the minimums below), I will buy the whole account from you at the discounts listed below. Bter's API still reports all of the altcoin balances so I will be able to verify your account balance that way.

Just PM me with how much BTC/altcoins your account has as well as you remember and we'll figure out how to do the trade.


If you have BTC, altcoins or fiat trapped in Bter I will buy them from you at a discount.

BTC: 10%, minimum 0.5 BTC
Fiat: 25%, minimum $500 USD or equivalent in CNY
Altcoins: 25-50% (depends on how stable the coin is), minimum = equivalent of $1,000 USD

How it works:

1. Let me know what you have (via PM only) and I'll send a quote [e.g. you have 5 BTC and I quote you 0.5 BTC].
2. If you agree, do a withdrawal to generate the Bter code.
3. Send me the first half of the code (the part before the -) and the BTC address you want to receive payment at.
4. I will validate and lock the code on Bter and send you the BTC.
5. You send me the full Bter code and I will redeem it.

If you are selling BTC or fiat steps 1 & 2 are not necessary since I will always quote 10% or 25% for BTC and fiat respectively. So you can start with step 3 to speed the process up. Or start with step 1 if you want extra confirmation of what the quote will be.

PM if interested, I will not reply to offers in the thread. Let me know exactly what you have when you PM or I will ignore your message.

[Edit]

So I originally came here to post this idea:

- A service that runs all coin daemons (Bitcoin and alts) and keeps them up to date
- If you wanted access you'd pay a few sheckles and you'd get a shell account with a read-only copy of ~/.bitcoin (symlinked or similar so it's always up to date)
- If you wanted write access you'd pay a bit more and get a writable copy (maybe everything but wallet.dat is still read-only?).  In this case a private daemon would be running just for you so you'd pay extra.
- You'd get a username/password that would allow you to connect to the daemon and use the API to read or write as needed

The reason for the service is of course that it's such a pain to keep all of these wallets and blockchains up to date on your own computer.  They can take forever to sync and use lots of disk space and for some reason are even CPU intensive when they're downloading the blockchain.

Today I came across a few services that are doing something similar:

- http://blockchain.info/: Well of course we all know this one.  Bitcoin only, access is via custom API.
- https://apicoin.io/: "Put the Bitcoin node in the Cloud!"  Bitcoin only, access is via custom API.
- http://www.blockcypher.com/: "Powering block chains in the cloud".  Bitcoin and Litecoin, homepage suggests they may add new coins, access is via custom unified API.
- https://helloblock.io/: "Focus on building Bitcoin apps, not infrastructure."  Bitcoin only, access is via custom API.
- https://chain.com/: "The Block Chain API for Developers"  Bitcoin only, access is via custom API.
- http://blockr.io/: BTC, LTC, TBTC, DGC, QRK, PPC, MEC, access is via custom unified API.

I'm not including normal block explorers on the list because they don't have a unified API and are usually very slow and unreliable.

Of the existing services blockr.io comes the closest but they haven't added a new coin in forever and the alt ones they have aren't really useful.

In order to keep up with all the new coins that come out, such a service could even allow the coin devs themselves to maintain their coin's daemon.  If the service was popular enough every dev would want to their coin to be included.  They could be given access to a chrooted account or similar to set up the daemon and then the unified API just routes calls to it.  And best of all if a coin daemon breaks or gets on the wrong fork or whatever the dev will be the one getting yelled at and not the service operator.

If you wanted to get really advanced you could even make an API/protocol that allows the wallet.dat to be stored locally while making calls to the hosted daemon.  Like Electrum and Multibit, but with more direct access to the daemon and a unified API for all coins.

So, any thoughts on such a service?  Any other existing services that offer something similar?

Edit: Also another related idea: you could create a snapshot of all the daemons and create VPSs on demand for customers that they could connect to via VNC.  That way with a few clicks the customer would have a desktop open that has all of the wallets, available and up-to-date as of the time the snapshot was created.  They could do whatever they need to and kill the VPS afterward.

Edit 2: There's also a GitHub repo that is trying to unify block explorer APIs.  It doesn't solve the problem of block explorers being slow and unreliable though: https://github.com/RCasatta/blockchain-common-api