FYI rbdrbd has, I believe, been verified via PM
(Just in case anyone wondered)
Yep. I am an AI bot coded up by Zepher's family to get them more money on this auction.  4.8 BTC |
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Hm, I'm curious, how or where are you getting the data to reconstruct the Armory tx? If you haven't looked at their code, I think this approach is perilous, since Armory's custom format will surely throw your code in disarray. For example, I'm not sure if the bytes from utxo's are appended like this: for coin in inputs:
tx_list += get_raw_transaction(coin['txid'], json=False)
for byte in range(0,len(tx_list),80):
txdp.append(tx_list[byte:byte+80] )
I'm looking at https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0010.mediawiki, and, yes, at the code itself. These lines, in particular, are what I'm working off of: https://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory/blob/master/armoryengine/Transaction.py. I'm actually xnova (another one of the Counterparty devs). Any assistance here would be very much welcome. Getting this working would allow us to add Armory offline signing support to counterpartyd and Counterwallet, which would be great for our users and probably add dozens of more new armory users, at the very least. |
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Do you know who "Robby" actually is? Can you put a name to "Robby"? Also, who are the other people behind the project? I believe there are 2 guys at least. Robby Dermody, an individual many of us highly and humbly respect. I wish we could've worked closer than we did with him. I'm still open to do so and talked to Craig about it a month or two back I think. I fear that barriers have been drawn however. Whether or not they can/will be transcended is unknown to me at this point in time. Herp, while I love the enthusiasm for the project, your brash, hostile defensiveness on this thread is not doing MasterProtocol's image any favors. In fact, your behavior on this thread is quite inflammatory and something I cannot support because it also creates dissonance within our own efforts and drives people away, despite however good your intentions may be. Risking being pedantic, please read what you write before posting and perceive how such writing may be perceived by others. We're all working together here, we all live in the same Yellow Submarine. Let's be a little more friendly, no? For the record, neither bitcointalk user Herp nor anyone else not officially representing and working specifically with the Mastercoin Foundation reflect the Foundation's viewpoints and positions. Thank you for your understanding, Yours, Antony Antony, I appreciate the maturity shown in this post, although my last name was not out there in public in this community, and now it is (oh well). Thank you for the kind words, but no "humble" variety of respect is necessary. |
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Calling Counterparty a "copycat" is calling it as it is. They've copied Mastercoin down to smallest details and Mastercoin's idea of using BTC blockchain.
Counterparty is not anonymous. Everyone knows it is being built by 'Robby' - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=102837 You can check precisely from where the whole thing started: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=265488.msg3822194;topicseen#msg3822194 Robby wanted to join Mastercoin and he started telling everyone how they suck and he is an experienced professional who has done many big projects. Mastercoin didn't get impressed with Robby's 'big swinging dick' attitude - so they told him "No thanks". So Robby went off and did his own thing: CounterParty. Robby built something nice. However, the Mastercoin infrastructure is much more than Robby's fast programming ability. Mastercoin is a community of dedicated hard working guys who COOPERATE together. Robby is a single dominant personality who wants to take over and tell others who don't agree with him - they suck. We'll see which holds up. Robby's work is no doubt nice. But Robby is not a community of cooperating parts. Counterparty will copy Mastercoin and every step - in some places, CP will even look better. But CP will not be able to pass MSC as CP is mere a one man show with loads of coding skill. It is a shame really. Mastercoin could have used contributions from Robby. But his dumb-ass personality got in the way. He isn't the kind of guy who cooperates with others. 'My way or the highway'. So - he took the highway. Bye-bye robby. I had to laugh a bit at this post, especially the “big swinging dick” part. Here's the deal, guys: I got involved with Mastercoin because as an investor, I felt that things were in a bit of a rut and my skills could potentially be useful. I had some ideas that I put out there in a way that the Mastercoin team was free to integrate, or not. It was never intended to be a “my way or the highway” kind of thing, and any references to “my business” or “my experience” was simply to help give the ideas context and to establish a relevance to them, *not* to puff me up personally. Moreover, I offered support and resources as well in several proposals (by for instance, promoting the idea of a “mastercoind” as well as developing part of it and offering to finish it, offering development resources, providing some targeted, experience-based tips to the team, and more). My intention and goal there was not to “steamroll” anyone, nor force anything down people's throats, but more to raise an objection and outline a potentially better way of doing things in some regards, and then let the community voice their support or lack of support for it. The best ideas should emerge and thrive, by consensus. “Dominant personalities” do not do a good job building organizations, products, projects, or anything really which involves more than one person – them. My track record points to collaboration, working well with others, and being able to delegate effectively (which is the only way to grow something beyond yourself). Was it always this way? No, and I had to learn some very good, but hard lessons along the “school of hard knocks” path, and am still learning. Like most people, I have more failures than successes in my life, but unlike many people, I really try to learn from each mistake and improve. In fact, all else being equal, I prefer to stay in the background – it's easier that way, and actions should speak for themselves. However, if I see something that is not going too well, and I have the interest, available time, and may have the skills to potentially help, then yes, I may get involved at that point. The only reason I stated my opinions is because I felt that logical, decisive action was lacking at the time in a few targeted areas, and things were not moving quickly enough. It was clear the “storm” that was coming in this space, and that Mastercoin would not be able to enjoy its first-mover advantage for long. In a few short months, this has come to pass. I am glad to see that Mastercoin is becoming better organized and learning from past mistakes. This is a mark of any good organization. However, the luxury of time is no longer on their side. I am still a Mastercoin investor, and am grateful to the team (especially David, Ron, Taariq at the time, etc) for talking to and getting to know me and the ideas I had around team building and software development. Hopefully it was not a waste of time for them. |
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Regarding using mastercoin-tools as your reference client, be aware that it is based deeply around libbitcoin/sx/obliesk. Currently, AFAIK these tools do not compile under Windows. There is some talk about it, but nothing has come out of that yet. Doing some work around that would probably be one of your first steps, along with an automated build system for all supported architectures. Maybe create a bounty or something similar to help move that along.
Beyond that, mastercoin-tools' method of data storage is error prone and may need some work (i.e. many .json files on the drive, instead of a database -- lacking ACID, data controls, etc). Plus, it calls out to sx and manually parses through the output of the command, which will be lacking performance-wise (i.e. rapid process instantiation/takedown) and command output string parsing is normally pretty fragile by nature.
Past that, it may work... not sure of the API...haven't taken a good look there. Care to lend a hand?  Hah, actually, you got to my post before I could delete it. Dang. And actually, the reason I deleted it on second thought is because based on my earlier experiences with a mastercoin reference client (as well as initially putting the idea out there), I didn't want to kick off anything else or get involved in any degree... nor do I have the time. However, honestly I just wanted to throw in a few pointers that may help your team out. Just some technical considerations to be aware of, as you consider potential reference clients. Best of luck! |
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Quick question: I was wondering if it was possible to sign an unsigned transaction (hex encoded) essentially produced by bitcoind's createrawtransaction (i.e. long hex string starting with 010000000) in offline armory, assuming that my offline armory wallet has the necessary private keys of course. I tried producing one using and pasting it into armory's Sign and/or Broadcast Transaction text box, but it says "Unrecognized", along with "Transaction data is invalid and cannot be shown". The txn is valid (if signed in bitcoind it will broadcast fine, and it decodes properly with https://blockchain.info/decode-tx). I've noticed the format that armory appears to produce for its raw transactions has header and footer lines, as well as _TXDIST/_TXINPUT, and the hex encoded transaction is wrapped at a certain line width. Do I need to somehow encode the raw bitcoin transaction to match this form for armory to be able to work with it? Thanks! EDIT: So I figured it out and wrote a script to do this, which will take a bitcoind hex raw txn and convert to an armory style txn, which should be good for signing and/or broadcasting (if already signed) I would think. I couldn't get the system path hack to fully work... it still complained about not being able to import a module in the jsonrpc folder. That being the case, you could just throw this script in /usr/lib/armory on the online armory box (with a full or watch-only wallet) and run it. Starts armory up, loads the blockchain, and spits out the armory-formatted txn. Any suggestions to the script are welcome (and feel free to add this to the armory extras folder): import sys
sys.path.append("/usr/lib/armory")
from armoryengine import *
#See https://bitcoinarmory.com/developers/python-scripting/
if len(sys.argv) != 3:
print "Please pass wallet file, followed by hex encoded unsigned raw txn"
sys.exit(2)
walletPath = sys.argv[1]
hexRawTxn = sys.argv[2]
wlt = PyBtcWallet().readWalletFile(walletPath)
# Register wallet and start blockchain scan
TheBDM.registerWallet(wlt)
TheBDM.setBlocking(True)
TheBDM.setOnlineMode(True) # will take 20 min for rescan
# Need "syncWithBlockchain" every time TheBDM is updated
wlt.syncWithBlockchain()
#Translate raw txn
pytx = PyTx()
print("Encoding raw txn: %s" % hexRawTxn)
binTxn = hex_to_binary(hexRawTxn)
pytx.unserialize(binTxn)
tx = PyTxDistProposal(pytx)
print("\n\nOutput is:\n%s" % tx.serializeAscii())
TheBDM.execCleanShutdown()
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I'm interested...may be that NXT with a fair distribution (and cleaned up code) may end up taking off.
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My post from the coinmarketcap.com thread:
I find it very interesting that within a day or two of Mastercoin being on the charts, Nxt's "market cap" has now risen dramatically and is now within 1MM of Mastercoin.
The recent rises in price, and the fact that Nxt trades on a single private exchange (from what I understand of it) smells funny. A cartel of a few large holders trading between themselves (or a single holder with multiple addresses -- remember the max contribution was 1 BTC per address -- someone could easily own 10-15 addresses) could easily engineer a rapid increase like this, and Nxt has a very large incentive to stay ahead of Mastercoin, making it be "the largest/highest valued crypto" of it's kind -- e.g. next-gen distributed application platforms.
Nothing inherently against Nxt, but let's get it on a few exchanges and see. I'm also not saying it's a scamcoin, but I think it's in a market situation now where it's very open for manipulation by large players. Mastercoin has somewhat of this same problem, but it is already traded numerous places (however, I believe the price data is only coming from masterxchange at this time). And, if we start seeing the same kind of massive and rapid price increases for Mastercoin on little to no news, with indicators of potential manipulation similar to what was posted earlier in this thread and on other threads, I'll start saying the same thing about it.
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you cant really use fictional market cap when you have all these instamined scamcoin ponzi schemes with "developer" and his friends/family at the top of scam pyramid granting themselves most of the coins for free (with no mining competition over years involved. talk about monopoly "money"), then "buy-in" layer where certain % of coins is sold to whoever pays most.
then they inflate value by selling scamcoins on private "exchange" to each other, to inflate volume and set any value they want. after all they control the supply and not crypto math algorithm mining like bitcoin.
bottom layer is all those suckers buying scamcoins because they see them listed on market cap site and thinking it must be valuable.
This is exactly what's wrong. There's plenty of naive and gullible newbs who just check coinmarketcap and buy when they see something rise, and they end up buying nothing more than an inflated piece of crap. It really makes a mockery of cryptos. And speaking of this, I find it very interesting that within a day or two of Mastercoin being on the charts, Nxt's "market cap" has now risen dramatically and is now within 1MM of Mastercoin. The recent rises in price, and the fact that Nxt trades on a single private exchange (from what I understand of it) smells funny. A cartel of a few large holders trading between themselves (or a single holder with multiple addresses -- remember the max contribution was 1 BTC per address -- someone could easily own 10-15 addresses) could easily engineer a rapid increase like this, and Nxt has a very large incentive to stay ahead of Mastercoin, making it be "the largest/highest valued crypto" of it's kind -- e.g. next-gen distributed application platforms. Nothing inherently against Nxt, but let's get it on a few exchanges and see. I'm also not saying it's a scamcoin, but I think it's in a market situation now where it's very open for manipulation by large players. Mastercoin has somewhat of this same problem, but it is already traded numerous places (however, I believe the price data is only coming from masterxchange at this time). And, if we start seeing the same kind of massive and rapid price increases for Mastercoin on little to no news, with indicators of potential manipulation similar to what was posted earlier in this thread and on other threads, I'll start saying the same thing about it. |
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Hi maxmint, due to recent developments, please remove my sell entry from the order book.
Thanks!
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