Thanks for all the feedback! I will try to incorporate as much as spare time allows


- I will add a cleanup function which will strip all whitespaces from the address when pasted in to the send address field.
- I made the 'unconfirmed' text small on purpose. I did it to make clear the balance is what you can actually spend. Unconfirmed is what will be spendable in the near future. If more people find this illogical I can change it.



What .NET version have you installed? The application needs 4.5. What windows version are you running? Can you check if you right click one of the files (executables and *.dlls) and click 'properties' if the dialog that appears says anything about blocked files?



The check for the executables has been added (see below). I also plan on adding mining support soon.  It shouldn't be to hard. Advanced commands are a good idea, but lets focus on the general commands first . I think 32 bit should also work, but I don't have a 32 bit windows here to test it.



I agree the full bounty needs cross-patform support, that's why I included 'part of' . I can try, but I have 0 experience with developing for mono.NET. I suspect I might have used some parts of the .NET framework which are not available in mono (starting a commandline process will probably not work in the same way for example).



I have also noticed the daemon log stops updating sometimes (although it keeps function fine in the background). I hope I can find the source of this problem.



This one should work on 32bit as well. Can you test this?


New version
Source has been updated on GitHub
Binaries: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6522303/CryptoNoteWallet_latest.zip

The following changes have been made:
- The application no longer crashes when the executables of the wallet and/or daemon are not found (it displays a helpful message).
- Text in the log windows is now selectable and can be copied (using ctrl+c).

Correct .

I did manage to get the JSON RPC calls working (although the JSON RPC of the daemon is not always actual JSON RPC, but just a HTTP POST to hostname:port/getinfo for example which returns simple JSON). I used the code from by bitcoind RPC wrapper (see link in my signature), it works in pretty much the same way.

For anyone interested in trying out a Monero GUI wallet for Windows: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=589561.msg6654252#msg6654252.

I have made a graphical wrapper around the standard command line wallet and daemon. Check the link for details.

I don't know if (part of) the bounty is open for everyone, but I have created a .NET based wallet. I started trying to use the RPC API of the daemon and simplewallet, but there are some large gaps in functionality covered by the API functions.

That is why I have create a wrapper around bitmonerod.exe and simplewallet.exe (filenames configurable in config file). It works by launching the simplewallet and daemon in the background and reading output and writing output to those processes. It should be relativly save, because it uses the widly used standard simplewallet and daemon.

It's targeted at windows, although it might be possible to port to Mono.NET (I have no experience with that). It should work with any of the bytecoin forks, but I have tested it with Monero.

Downloads
The source can be found here: https://github.com/BitKoot/CryptoNoteWallet
Windows binaries: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6522303/CryptoNoteWallet_latest.zip

Features
- Open wallets with *.bin or *.wallet extension (configurable in config file)
- Create new wallets
- Backup wallet on launch
- Show balance (locked and unlocked), refreshed every 10 second (configurable in config file)
- Show wallet address
- Copy wallet address to clipboard
- Transfer coins
- Show logging from wallet and daemon
- Saved wallet and daemon on exit

Usage
- You will need to have .net 4.5 installed.
- BE CAREFUL! This is new software, and not widly tested.
- Place the compiled or downloaded files in the same folder as your wallet.
- Open CryptoNoteWallet.exe.
- Select your wallet and click 'open', or create a new wallet by clicking 'new'.
- Wait for the status (in the lower left corner) to say 'Ready' and view your address and balance and transfer money.
- When you sent money, it is best to wait a while to make sure the transaction is propagated through the network. You are safe once the 'unconfirmed' and 'total' balance are equal again.
- When you want to exit, give the program some time to start properly first (until the status is 'Ready') that way everything will exit in a clean way when the program is closed.

Things which could be added in the feature:
- Show number of connected peers in taskbar
- Show list of past transactions
- Handle daemon with more grace (it tends to hang when you try to exit right after the application starts).

Screenshots






If you run into any problems let me know

I know . The command I'm refering to is not entered at the command line, but sent via HTTP messages, specifically used for communication between two processes.

I have been trying to create a simple wrapper for the simplewallet and daemon. But I'm running into problems with the public (JSON RPC) API. The documentation on the bytecoin wiki is not accurate (some methods don't exists any more, others are missing specification of the input).

I can read the balance from the wallet and general info from the daemon. But I can't read a list of incomming transfers (this method does not seem to be available). I tried getting all the blocks and parsing them, but I can get the call for getblocks.bin working.

Has anyone got any further than me? I can post examples of how to make the JSON RPC calls. But I'm still missing big parts of functionality before I can even think of making a Windows wallet implementation.

As the coins are fungible I would like the name to reflrect that.

I started playing with an anagrams creator and found this anagram of fungible: Bionic Elf Guns (BEG). Somehow I get the feeling this name will not catch on...

So why not keep it simple: Change

The coins (down to the smallest unit) are interchangeable just like the change in your pocket. That right there is the strength of this coin (and all CryptoNote implementations for that matter). On the other hand it means adapting to the environment. We see Bitcoin becoming more and more mainstream, and with that becoming more regulated as well. The CryptoNote implementations are the natural product of this. The desire of community to stick to the principles of anonymity, decentralization and freedom of speech are reinforced in the protocol.

Of course variations are possible, although I don't like the standard adjectives;
- ChangeNote
- ChangeCoin

Thanks for you answers! I can only speak for myself. But 2 days sounds ok. That way people have enough time to prepare if they want to start mining etc.

I'm thinking about making a .Net (e.g. Windows and possibly Linux with Mono) frontend for the wallet. It would run the wallet and daemon as a (hidden) background process and do simple things via the RPC interface (get balance, transfer funds, show number of connections, etc.). The only obstacle in the road will be finding enough time (although it shouldn't be to hard to create the basics).

Just sent you 1,000,001 back (you send me 1M instead of 10k )

Just sent 123.45 coins to @zoidberg2.


You can send some back to @bitkoot if you like

Unfortunatly there is still a big difference between mining in linux and windows. On my machine mining in ubuntu running inside a VM is still 2 times faster than mining on windows. I have compiled the linux version (which helps perfomance), and the windows version is the precompiled one. I don't know if it makes a huge difference when you compile it yourself on windows.

First of all: good to see an open/public fork of Bytecoin with active development!

I agree the name should be changed. Shadowcoin, Nightcoin (suggested by Iocogee) or something without the age old 'coin' additive.

Could you answer these questions:
- How many developers are in the team?
- Are you looking for more developers (can people contribute on GitHub) and or other help (translations, etc.)?
- Can you announce the launch more than one day in advance? You want the launch to be perceived as open and honest as possible.

Anyone looking to run this on Linux, I got it running on Ubuntu 14.04 (I think this should work on 13.10 as well). These are the steps I used:

Thanks for you help. I tried again (same computer and address), and this time the withdraw succeeded. After a minute or so the transaction showed up in my wallet as well, woohoo!

Still there is something wrong with the withdraw page. After a second attempt to withdraw 1000 BCN, again the withdraw does not succeed. It looks like there is a disconnect between the amount shown in the page, and the actual amount available to withdraw.

I got the address from the simplewallet with the 'address' command. Pasted the address in notepad to make sure there were no spaces, enters or any other whitespace characters.

The issue where it is impossible to withdraw funds seems to be back (same as described at the second page of this thread).

I have tried withdrawing funds multiple times in Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer. The site refreshes after I click the 'withdraw' button (only chrome displays a loading indicator in the form of a blue circle), but no transactions show up on the right side, and the BCN balance stays the same.

Hi, you should only have to set those three settings.

Is it possible a firewall is blocking access to your bitcoind instance?

Thanks for the heads up. In Visual Studio the NuGet package manager should automaticly install the needed DLL's. But for people who don't use Visual Studio or the package manager I added the link to the Json.NET site in the readme.

Thanks!

I have not put it up on GitHub yet. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it after this auction. Maybe I'll convert it into a gambling site. At the moment I don't think it is ready for public release .

If you want info about a specific part I'm happy to tell more about it (the blockchain.info merchent API handling for example).

I have developped BidStack.

The site offers users a way to participate in an action for a fraction of the target price. The more that pay, the higher the change they will win the item which is auctioned. Once the target price is reached, a random address from the pool of addresses which were paid to for the auction will be chosen. The amount of bitcoins in an address determines the chance the address will be picked.

I developped the site to auction some casascius aluminium coins. It could be altered to a gambling website, where people can pay, and once the target amount has been reached a random user receives the bitcoins paid by everyone.

The technial part is the main motivation for building the website. I wanted to learn how to use node js and websocket. The websockets are used to update the transaction list and balances in real time. You can open the site, and it will keep updating with the latest information periodically. If you pay to your address, the balance of your address is updated within seconds. I'm using blockchain.info's merchant API to confirm transactions. There is no bitcoin wallet needed on the server, and the secondary password for blockchain.info is not needed on the server. This makes the website pretty secure, because it does not know the information needed to access the wallet.

As database I use the highly scalable document based mongo database.

The site can be seen here:------------- Removed because of a lack of interest. Wouldn't want someone to make a bid after all and have his bitcoins stuck

I would like some feedback about the design (I'm not a desinger, but I tried to keep it as clean as possible) and the responsiveness (it runs on a low power media center, but should still be pretty fast because of the techniques used).

- knip -

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