Since I'm still a newbie, I'll put this thread in the newbies section. Mods: please feel free to move this to the development section.
I'm new to bitcoins. Too bad, right?
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I missed out on all the fun! The ASICpocalypse is here and bitcoins have lost all their value. Heh, nevermind: it didn't happen.
Hey, one thing a newcomer might notice that everyone else has gotten used to: it takes forever to bootstrap a bitcoin client and it has to stay connected all the time!
Now, I don't trust anyone so I'll never be putting my wallet in the cloud. So I'll run bitcoind on an always-on machine I have in a locked cage somewhere, that's easy! And as soon as I started up bitcoind it hit me:
This needs a better frontend.Ok, I admit, I only looked at a few and really only tried
bitcoin-js-remote before I decided this isn't going to work.
Anyone want to help me write a better frontend? I'm currently unemployed but here are the apps I'd like to make, sorted from quick and easy (get my feet wet) to hard:
1. Linux Terminal App (bitcoind TUI frontend)
2. Qt App for my linux laptop.
I don't like having to leave my laptop connected all the time just to keep my block chain up to date!3. Android app
4. Mac OS native app
5. Windows native app
6. iOS app (I might never get around to this one. They can just use bitcoin-js-remote, right?) :-}