STARTING NOW, I will be refunding those who asked for refund(with corresponding bitcoin address). Otherwise, the funds will be rollover to the next hacker charity.

If you don't want to wtihdraw your money, please say so.

You have until the end of year to make your decision on whether to withdraw or keep the fund in escrow. Those who didn't asked for withdraw will be automatically assumed to have consented.

Guideline for doing a bounty right, based on bitter experience:


1. If you want something open source, demand that the person START doing so right now, and from an publically accessible codebase. Don't buy his "not ready" bullshit, even if said bullshit is true. You will be left with working code but not ownership of the codebase itself, which mean you can't fund other people to work on where that programmer left off. Don't forget the license either.

2. If the person is going to escrow some kind of funds, demand that person to state a clear date by which bitcoin get used or returned to the pledgers.

3. You should do your escrow of funds at the last possible moment. If a person disappear from the scene, you can't get the bitcoin back.

4. Never give large amount of funds to somebody who is new.

5. Never donate money to somebody who is inactive in the forum.

I violated some of these rules myself, so I will be following them as well.

http://pastecoin.com

Genjix, Please refrain from making my customer wait for a confirmation.

I don't have another room for a project, but I am going to pledge 20 BTC for a competitor to Mr. Don'tReleaseCode aka bitquux.

Why?

There will be better encryption system down the road.

Ubitio.us have the problem of file expiring. Pastecoin.com or bitcoinservice.co.uk is a better choice.

Quickie update for today:

I got some of the bid data model set up. Mainly, it hold data relating to the prediction data, and the user data.

Why?

We didn't sign any formal contract wtih Bitquux.

If not a pop, but at least a big rectangle red box that notify the user that they have PM.

It works for us, but PM messages are not as noticable as the rest of the forum. They should be noticable and big so that people actually...reply to my PM.

I knew bitquuix is on here everyday(At least yesterday), but he's not replying to my PM about open sourcing it.

Any last ditch suggestion before I start refunding people's money?

I believe that PM are pretty important and shouldn't get ignored.

They should be popping up or the first thing you check when you visit the forum, especially if they are new.

We're fucked if we can't legally package it as an open source project. People's money are wasted.  

It's time to think about refunding people's money.

The CCC is unresponsive to email communication, German or English.

My PM to bitquux had been met with silence. His excuse for not releasing the source code is because it's not working in the last PM that he sent to me.

Frak this!   I don't give a damn about if it doesn't work or not. This is stuff that bitcoiners(at least those who are the pledgers) paid for.

Now we're stuck with a codebase that we can't pay someone else to improve or fix up.

What is with all those self-published source? The best source of how bitcoin work is the project's documentation itself.

Those media reporters are liable to get the details wrong.

http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=85 0.10 BTC

I got the hair the way I wanted. All that is left is more shading, more shading, higher level shading, and more shading.


I started work on the cloak. One of the major feature is the hand grabbing it. I will be working to perfect that.

Ummm....we're a community of entrepreneurs, not a startup....