I just read the whole thread in the off-topic section. This is so SO cool.

Dozens if not hundreds of Chinese students ready to do anything I want for a few dollars (or less) of BTC.

ANYTHING.

I'm thinking of offering a bounty for some kind of huge publicity stunt that makes the news in every major Chinese news source.

I think the rules will be that they can do it in absolutely any way they can dream up. The only requirement is that it gets coverage in all the major Chinese news sources. I would offer 12 BTC, which would allow two companies to work together to come up with something sufficiently insane and large-scale.

My only concern is that I might get Nefario arrested. That would suck. What do you guys think?

Hi dishwara,

I was able to reproduce this problem, and I believe I fixed it. Please install my latest version of the script, then refresh the mining page and then change a setting. From then on, your settings should be saved between browser sessions.

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Thanks!

Hey Slush,

Have you tried my UI improvements greasemonkey script? (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/98553)

Would you be willing to link to it from mining.bitcoin.cz and/or the top post of this thread? Obviously you would want to say that it is a 3rd-party script which could be changed by me to something evil at any time (not that I would do that).

Another possibility is you could host an approved version of the script, or link to an approved version in the version history on userscripts.org.

I assume that some people on this thread have reviewed the code and can vouch that it is not evil (can anyone back me up on this?).

My script also puts your bitcoin donation address (and mine) at the bottom of the workers page.

It would be sweet to see GHash/Second in the hall of fame.

# Blocks found weights the hall toward people who have been mining for longer.

Thanks mortalis. Just what I was looking for. Small donation sent.

I have an interesting social experiment I'm going to run, to try to turn my 20BTC pledge into a 200 BTC pledge:

If you are a trusted forum member, and you would like to see this feature happen, pledge on this thread. I will send you 1/10 of your pledge amount right now, (deducting it from my original pledge). This offer is subject to my deciding if you seem honest, trusted on this forum, and serious about your pledge.

Obviously things always take longer than expected, but do you have any idea how soon you will be launching?

I took a closer look, and I have a couple more objections to the mybitcoin.com API:

1) No way to generate a new address. This is handled internally at mybitcoin.com - I just send the user there and wait for the site to do a callback.

2) No way to query if a user has paid, and how many confirmations have passed. I just have to wait for a callback.

A callback procedure does not offer me enough visibility into what is happening.


Thanks for the comments everyone. It looks like what I want doesn't exist yet, so I'll offer a small bounty: 20BTC

Payable to the first online wallet service (new or existing) who provides the world with a URL API something like this:

https://www.coolservice.com?user=dacoinminster&pwd=mypassword&action=spend&address=bitcoin_address_to_send_to&amount=#
(an equivalent one for this already exists at mtgox)

https://www.coolservice.com?user=dacoinminster&pwd=mypassword&action=getnewaddress
(returns new bitcoin address which I can give to a customer)

https://www.coolservice.com?user=dacoinminster&pwd=mypassword&action=seecoins
(returns my BTC balance)

https://www.coolservice.com?user=dacoinminster&pwd=mypassword&action=seecoins&address=bitcoin_address_of_mine
(returns number of BTC sent to that address, and number of confirmations received so far)

https://www.coolservice.com?user=dacoinminster&pwd=mypassword&action=seetransactions
(returns all my transactions ever, with addresses and # of confirmations for each one)

Bounty is only payable if the service is free to everyone. Website must be either already trusted, or must establish a trustworthy reputation. Hopefully others interested in having a service like this will add to my little bounty.

I have added the bounty information to the first post in this thread. Future updates will be there.

For posterity who read this thread, I did find a start on some documentation here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MyBitcoin_SCI

I have a bunch of bitcoin-powered website ideas I would love to work on. I have reasonable PHP/MySQL skills, but I'm not sure what is the best way to interface a website with bitcoin. I poked through the forums and found a couple different ways this might be done, but I'm not sure what is the simplest solution to just get something working.

Options:

1) bitcoind - I think this might be the same as configuring bitcoin to run as server. I believe it uses an RPC API to run transactions from the command line.
Pros: Everything stays on my server
Cons: I have to find a server that will let me compile and install this, rather than just some PHP/MySQL farm in the cloud, which is what I prefer

2) mybitcoin.com "shopping cart interface".
Pros: Seems to do everything I would need
Cons: I don't see anybody talking about using it. (Can anybody tell me how well this works?). Also have to install/compile/run something on my server, rather than just constructing/posting a URL and reading the results, which is what I prefer.

3) mtgox.com API:
Pros: Perfect API model (construct/post a URL, then read the results)
Cons: According to the documentation, I can send bitcoins via the API, but I don't see any way to generate a new address and then query if bitcoins have been received at that address. If I could do that, it would be perfect!

4) Manually parse webpage at mybitcoin.com or mtgox.com
Pros: I know how to do this
Cons: It would take a lot longer, it would be hacky, it would break when the webpage changed, and I'd have to find some way around the captcha at mybitcoin.com if I used that site

What do you guys (who have bitcoin-powered websites) do? If there is a really stupid-simple API to handle bitcoins from my webpage without installing anything, I've missed it.

Any help would be appreciated. I would like to point out that if such an API existed and was widely used/known, the difficulty in creating a new bitcoin-powered site would go down significantly.

Edit:

Thanks for the comments everyone. It looks like what I want doesn't exist yet, so I'll offer a small bounty: 20BTC

Payable to the first online wallet service (new or existing) who provides the world with a URL API something like this:

https://www.coolservice.com?user=dacoinminster&pwd=mypassword&action=spend&address=bitcoin_address_to_send_to&amount=#
(an equivalent one for this already exists at mtgox)

https://www.coolservice.com?user=dacoinminster&pwd=mypassword&action=getnewaddress
(returns new bitcoin address which I can give to a customer)

https://www.coolservice.com?user=dacoinminster&pwd=mypassword&action=seecoins
(returns my BTC balance)

https://www.coolservice.com?user=dacoinminster&pwd=mypassword&action=seecoins&address=bitcoin_address_of_mine
(returns number of BTC sent to that address, and number of confirmations received so far)

https://www.coolservice.com?user=dacoinminster&pwd=mypassword&action=seetransactions
(returns all my transactions ever, with addresses and # of confirmations for each one)

Bounty is only payable if the service is free to everyone. Website must be either already trusted, or must establish a trustworthy reputation. Hopefully others interested in having a service like this will add to my little bounty.

Edit: Problem solved, and bounty expired paid: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4324.msg77187#msg77187

I tried to reproduce this, and found that my script was messing up all the graphs. I fixed the problem and released a new version, so now you can  see the epoch time problem too if you are running my script.

I installed chrome and found the problem - it doesn't support some of the built-in Greasemonkey functions.

I implemented a work-around which seems to work. Let me know if it works for you.

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(Thanks for the donation BitterTea!)


Edit:
I just released it again with some additional info added to the stats page. Check this out:

Avg. cluster performance:    98.769 Ghash/s
Avg. network performance:   510.305 Ghash/s

I calculate that slush's pool accounts for about 1/5 of the total mining capacity. Nifty.

I have updated my UI enhancements greasemonkey script, because I just can't leave it alone.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/98553

New features:

 -Applies your local time-zone to the stats page
 -Adds "total" row at the bottom of your worker table
 -Adds "total" and "average" rows at the bottom of the block history table on the stats page

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Showing your balances is also a good way to attract hackers to try to break in!

Hmmmm. I've never played around with Chrome very much. I didn't even know Chrome could use Greasemonkey. I guess just use Firefox for now, and if enough people ask for a fix I might look into it. If anybody manages to fix it, feel free to send me your changes and I'll update the script.

Thanks for the donation!

I made the change you suggested, so it should now work for https too. Please let me know any other features you guys would like to see (as long as they are possible in javascript, I'll consider them, especially if they are accompanied by a donation )

What the heck. Here it is: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/98553

Note that I also added color-coding to show how old the last share is. Here's a screenshot:




Please note that I am not claiming any affiliation with (or endorsement by) slush.


Enjoy!

I have a greasemonkey script that does the following:

 - Option to unhide hidden columns (difficulty and MHash/Second) which are currently commented out (you can view the source of the page to see them - I assume these numbers have something wrong with them, which is why they are currently commented out)
 - Changes timestamps to local time (you can enter number of hours to offset the time forward or backwards)
 - Option to show time elapsed since last work received from each worker instead of timestamp
 - Option to automatically refresh the page every 20 minutes

Assuming it works as advertised and you guys can see that the source code isn't doing anything evil, does anybody want to promise me a bounty to release it publicly?

I've been checking prices every couple days waiting to see a price I like to sell some more bitcoins. It would be nice if I could send you bitcoins and tell you the price I want and have your software send me the money when the price hits that number.

I'm sure something similar for coinpal would be nice too, where users could send you money via paypal and a bitcoin price they want, and get sent the bitcoins when the price hits their target.

An easier option might be to buy/sell credit on MtGox, if you aren't looking to become a full market and compete with them.

Hey slush,

I'd love to see timestamps in my local timezone. I'm getting a headache from constantly converting the timestamps.

I'll donate 5BTC when you get a chance to implement something that lets me choose my timezone. I know it's not a big donation, but I want to make a gesture of appreciation for all your hard work.

Thanks!