Hi all,
I stumbled across this forum from google and landed on a discussion about a Bitcoin faucet bot someone had written and was trying to get his work out. I should have taken the link and posted it.
Anyway, essentially the poster had created an account and then just posted a 'Get this now' sort of approach to getting his work out there, and was rightly (sort of) put down for it.
Although, I agree with a lot of the posters here were they say...No, it can't be trusted and shouldn't be run. It is very hard for a developer to share his code as we all know that it will be ripped apart and a new version with a different name etc attached.
As I said, I stumbled across this as I was searching to see what the competition was for my own faucet bot rotator. I'm not going to peddle my bot to you, so don't worry
But I am interested in what would make people generally feel better about running an unknown program, so that I can try to get my own work out easier.
I've listed what I believe they are below.
1. Reputation IE know developer or long standing member (I don't fall under this - Fail)
2. Open Source (I'm one of those wary people who believe their code would be stolen / changed etc...Still in two minds but - Fail)
3. Proofs Ie proof of faucet payments (No issue there and cant see why no one wouldn't want to show it - Pass)
4. Programming language. I believe most would prefer pyhon or something readable (back to point 2 here - Fail as written in C#
5. Not obfuscated. This is so it can be decompliled etc. Also, a lot of virus tools will falsely see it as a virus. (I admit, I lightly obfuscate my code. It can still be decompiled and could be ripped apart if anyone really wanted to try. For me its really to stop the script kiddies ripping it. - Fail I guess)
Maybe I should have written this as a poll. Anyway, I'd love to hear what you guys think as it is interesting and would help me promote my own bot better.
Regards
bitcoinltc
