Bitcoin app for Facebook

[trudi]

Wow Matthew, so aggressive.. I decided not to argue with you any longer. I don't like these style of conversation. Sorry.

Be sportsman. We'll end up with nobody using any app. Have the people decide which Facebook App they like more:


bitcoin-app.com

or

http://apps.facebook.com/yougotcoin/


Sorry Matthew, I pressed the "Ignore" button now.

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[bitlotto]

How do the apps work? Do they both hold onto all the private keys to all the addresses? Or do something like blockchain.info/solidcoin?

It would be cool if somehow they used a password to generate the keys and used the password to re-generate the keys to sign a tx message so not even the facebook app could run with all the BTC.

[Matthew N. Wright]

Guys, there already exists a much better one.

I've been using it for about a month.

http://apps.facebook.com/yougotcoin/

That is scalable, Matthew. This needs its own thread of which the developers should start.

~Bruno~

Agreed. I'll get them to make a thread. They were just going to advertise it in the magazine but that's a tad late ^_-

Sorry Matthew, I pressed the "Ignore" button know.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

[trudi]

How do the apps work? Do they both hold onto all the private keys to all the addresses? Or do something like blockchain.info/solidcoin?

It would be cool if somehow they used a password to generate the keys and used the password to re-generate the keys to sign a tx message so not even the facebook app could run with all the BTC.

bitcoin-app.com uses the original bitcoin client and no special tricks.

Sounds like a nice idea bitlotto. But actually the whole authentication procedure is entirely handled by Facebook and I have no access to the passwords or their hashes.   

[wigglyuk]

Yougotcoin app on facebook is a scam...

[trudi]

Yougotcoin app on facebook is a scam...

And please note: wigglyuk is not talking about bitcoin-app.com . Its an other app. Just to clearify.

[LightRider]

I wouldn't trust a closed source application that relies upon a proprietary platform to handle bitcoin. Especially a platform obsessed with acquiring as much personal information as possible.

[Jonathan Ryan Owens]

Yougotcoin app on facebook is a scam...

*image*

From the amount of times I've seen people call things scams in this community, I think scam has lost its meaning..

No, it's not a scam. The 3rd party hosted and backed up cloud wallet provider transitioned their infrastructure, and totally Fubar'd on the uptime. The application itself was having difficulty for a few hours in connecting to the main wallet, and we're adding a hot standby in case it happens in the future.

I should also mention I really was surprised to see that the application already has over 120 users now.

Wigglyuk: I'm sorry the application was temporary non-functional, and I worked to remedy it as quickly as possible. I assure you that You Got Coin is not a scam, and I'd further like to say that we never intended for You Got Coin to be anyone's main wallet, but instead a simple way to send Bitcoin to your Facebook friends, and as a backup for small amounts of easily accessible Bitcoin.

Regards,
Jonathan

[EDIT] The error message you see "aww" has been replaced with actual debugging information. One of the developers apparently forgot to remove that silly bug message from final code.

[trudi]

yet another 100 welcome presents. Thanks to the anonymous donator!

Thus: 71 of 250 slots left at bitcoin-app.com

[Matthew N. Wright]

rofl@"anonymous donator".

[Matthew N. Wright]

@Wigglyuk:

http://blockexplorer.com/address/171dQjhJmzCtbbw5Uk3BcXrQZs3Ui22Moo

Seems like you're the one scamming.

Address 171dQjhJmzCtbbw5Uk3BcXrQZs3Ui22Moo

Code:

Transaction? Block? Amount? Type? From/To? Balance?
6f7dfaab8b... Block 169413 (2012-03-02 22:44:18) 0.20078454 Received: Address 1KKnWbErhNNwfoBpMVwSmEgTz9usY2Cto 0.20078454
e4714dde06... Block 169432 (2012-03-03 03:54:04) 0.001 Received: Address 1Q3xEadnS74eAdgVKCWa3mR5Z56YdbxP3d 0.20178454
dda3352511... Block 169970 (2012-03-07 03:16:30) 0.001 Received: Address 1Jqgf3Efx6Huzk5wkbyhJZgrXjqxAuhfqB 0.20278454
7eed46c169... Block 170006 (2012-03-07 09:25:39) 0.01 Received: Address 1KwNLNNP2p2qFy5m7twP4uCgLdD56JAnod 0.21278454
fc8522749e... Block 170276 (2012-03-09 03:22:54) 0.0025 Received: Address 13nTxuHncwc6CQuAHZmgWqRoMvy4CgJDgi 0.21528454
055986be1c... Block 170461 (2012-03-10 03:23:29) 0.001 Received: Address 1L3AzxSczorjuz73ZLUVrFx4ELfRfKuonG 0.21628454
143308fbee... Block 170573 (2012-03-10 21:16:55) 0.0025 Sent: Address 1NdWRsxfeWPXPX8ywW7VAzdtCMiyr9W1Hb 0.21378454
65ec6b3d1f... Block 170742 (2012-03-12 02:20:19) 0.01 Sent: Address 19Bvn1yBJ7QUfWcXwy7xh3BMfPhZ1JKyUT
17XJKxG2fLsuGoZ9RvXkCJjGhkb1RBqrFJ 0.20378454
c451c74c21... Block 170755 (2012-03-12 03:31:01) 0.02 Received: Address 1EZAdRL8FLYcDKv8uRRQa4JDEuUTn61XuF 0.22378454
35d7eafe45... Block 171202 (2012-03-15 03:04:31) 0.001 Received: Address
19orzYhD8bkxVwm9ehuPgueTLkcVgqSsw8 0.22478454
06804a728c... Block 171490 (2012-03-17 03:18:20) 0.001 Received: Address 19532KmPvVJysM6Y8otA75JA2zEiEWAAqG 0.22578454
da3dfdb3b2... Block 171669 (2012-03-18 06:11:04) 0.001 Sent: Address 1MExT7h7K5SEZee2cWj7N2616XUfQdbHbt
1CkFtKFPzyuFigcnXW6KWvFh8xcF4Qd1i7 0.22478454
1e286a7714... Block 171669 (2012-03-18 06:11:04) 0.001 Sent: Address 1B62fq71twmDqHXsm5xYTm5VoRm4MTeqMB 1CkFtKFPzyuFigcnXW6KWvFh8xcF4Qd1i7 0.22378454
1e286a7714... Block 171669 (2012-03-18 06:11:04) 0.001 Sent: Address 1B62fq71twmDqHXsm5xYTm5VoRm4MTeqMB 1CkFtKFPzyuFigcnXW6KWvFh8xcF4Qd1i7 0.22278454
82b175d093... Block 171671 (2012-03-18 06:19:19) 0.001 Sent: Address 12ZUdJbkbnn3zpUX1HfdrBW7wdh1wfeYhi
1CkFtKFPzyuFigcnXW6KWvFh8xcF4Qd1i7 0.22178454
82b175d093... Block 171671 (2012-03-18 06:19:19) 0.001 Sent: Address 12ZUdJbkbnn3zpUX1HfdrBW7wdh1wfeYhi
1CkFtKFPzyuFigcnXW6KWvFh8xcF4Qd1i7 0.22078454
f35f2e88e4... Block 171680 (2012-03-18 07:16:53) 0.02 Sent: Address 1CYUuZsc3xFseEZKuv2Ux4U1BrCQAEm9ZL
1CkFtKFPzyuFigcnXW6KWvFh8xcF4Qd1i7 0.20078454
6146580735... Block 171957 (2012-03-20 03:16:57) 0.001 Received: Address 1DHV4RFYTBafiAKDusuwU42m4FuBDaYtZF 0.20178454
0a693ebce4... Block 172027 (2012-03-20 13:09:19) 0.20078454 Sent: Address 1GFT5adfiKA5YLt8ok5WNeUr9MCYKLPhpX
19TeeH5cadWq4tvZtscbmQrbk21orwXqE 0.001
f3b1214db8... Block 172030 (2012-03-20 13:17:30) 0.001 Sent: Address 1HqPBx84VQ6KshgJYQooDvz56uA17BPuPp
19TeeH5cadWq4tvZtscbmQrbk21orwXqE 0
d777bd510f... Block 172281 (2012-03-22 03:31:05) 0.001 Received: Address 139CNp8YHP37gJJEEYUhkk4RrYfRqAFXS1 0.001
49029e9556... Block 172329 (2012-03-22 10:36:12) 0.001 Sent: Address 13K8CgQPGviJqK14aiKASipPic4r8j8gum
193bjVVUZADsR2MsJz18NpZWyQJDx4fwUr 0
b2b6bf5491... Block 172432 (2012-03-23 03:15:49) 0.001 Received: Address 1FC6LKbfsUovnAP1LV5KXDR5p6phZGmWUb 0.001
5f62135ff0... Block 172565 (2012-03-24 03:35:34) 0.001 Received: Address 13QRA8X15S6qRaiCwiPiN81nFHJcfP95tW 0.002
80792bc2d7... Block 172575 (2012-03-24 04:38:06) 0.005 Received: Address 15ArtCgi3wmpQAAfYx4riaFmo4prJA4VsK 0.007

By an error or your own modification of the page's contents, it is not important why the screen shot shows a negative balance. What is important is that you already spent your Bitcoin balance before lying about the app being a scam.

Since Trudi has already shown that spamming and deception are how he gets people to try his app, it would not surprise me in the slightest if you were a friend or sockpuppet trying to make YouGotCoin look bad.

I'll be watching you both from this point on.

[Jon]

Yougotcoin app on facebook is a scam...

Am I the only one who laughed at the idea of somebody hacking a Bitcoin account for .039 Bitcents then leaving an "awe" message?

[wigglyuk]

Yougotcoin app on facebook is a scam...

*image*

From the amount of times I've seen people call things scams in this community, I think scam has lost its meaning..

No, it's not a scam. The 3rd party hosted and backed up cloud wallet provider transitioned their infrastructure, and totally Fubar'd on the uptime. The application itself was having difficulty for a few hours in connecting to the main wallet, and we're adding a hot standby in case it happens in the future.

I should also mention I really was surprised to see that the application already has over 120 users now.

Wigglyuk: I'm sorry the application was temporary non-functional, and I worked to remedy it as quickly as possible. I assure you that You Got Coin is not a scam, and I'd further like to say that we never intended for You Got Coin to be anyone's main wallet, but instead a simple way to send Bitcoin to your Facebook friends, and as a backup for small amounts of easily accessible Bitcoin.

Regards,
Jonathan

[EDIT] The error message you see "aww" has been replaced with actual debugging information. One of the developers apparently forgot to remove that silly bug message from final code.

I seem to have jump the gun on this one, my balanced returned after a day and my balance was back to normal. The negitive balance did frieghten me though and I see that it has happened again today but returned within a few hours. I will confirm that YouGotCoin App on Facebook is NOT a scam. Sorry for the Libel.

@Wigglyuk:

http://blockexplorer.com/address/171dQjhJmzCtbbw5Uk3BcXrQZs3Ui22Moo

Seems like you're the one scamming.

Address 171dQjhJmzCtbbw5Uk3BcXrQZs3Ui22Moo
By an error or your own modification of the page's contents, it is not important why the screen shot shows a negative balance. What is important is that you already spent your Bitcoin balance before lying about the app being a scam.

I guess you could say I'm scamming the multiple Free bitcents-a-day site by farming a steady flow of bitcents per month... but I did not send my .2 accumulation of bitcents anywhere, it should be in the YouGotCoin app, the second I saw it was missing I cried wolf; again I apologize for the Libel.

Aside from the occasional negatie balances, YouGotCoin is a solid app and is likely to convert the facebook kin into bitcoin users.

[matthewh3]

Facebook app "Got Coin" is an excellent app especially as it's a faucet as well.  I got one girl interested in it and now she got all her mates using the app and bitcoin for the first time.  It's a very good way to spread the concept of bitcoin to new users as you can send BTC to any of your FB friends for free.  It should be developed more so you can use it as your main wallet and the app should have its own thread. 

[HostFat]

Is YouGotCoin still working?

[Bitcoin Oz]

Is YouGotCoin still working?

Not for me.

[crosby]

yougotcoin says

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[hazek]

Have you all seen this?:

** New Send Forms offered by Blockchain.info **

Note: The quick send form will not ask for confirmation for transactions below 20 BTC in value.

[HostFat]

yes we have, but there are still some bitcoins on the other app.

[giszmo]

gnah!

a facebook wallet is cool cause it allows free transactions between facebook users outside the blockchain. Consequently your transactions will not show up in blockexplorer "as expected" but your depositing address will be "charged at random". This is built into bitcoind behaviour and Mathew you should know by now that that is not a sign of scam.

Sending to Facebook IDs is also very convenient for users as they see their friend's face when sending.

Fees should only apply when sending to a bitcoin address. (My concern was that if I grant every user to send single Satoshis to friends, these friends will scream "SCAM" when I charge them 1000000Satoshi for sending their belongings out.)

I have a facebook app for bitcoin, too but did not dare to expose it to a wider audience. It's simple. Just a frontend to bitcoind with the facebook uid for the account. super slow but it works.

https://bitcoin-app.com/ is UUUGLY as hell.

https://apps.facebook.com/yougotcoin/ is broken (plain white).

I will not use a hosted wallet where I don't trust the ones standing behind it. Ultimately I see it the job of some exchange to launch such an app. It can be done in one week of work to get far better than bitcoin-app. I would see it as a valuable investment in the future of bitcoin. Yes, facebook will ban it despite the fact it is not against anything I found in their TOS. The one doing the app should have a concept of continuing operations outside of facebook. Well done, this app could reach millions in a month and we could document how facebook destroyed a success story without a good reason and offer the more secure alternatives to the doubled user base.