[ANN] Rein - Decentralized Freelance Market

[weex]

Brave New Coin did a pretty thorough story. Great to see the freelancing market stats in it. http://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoin-only-decentralized-marketplace-rein-targets-growing-freelance-industry

[weex]

Today is a great day. Digital artist Mike Christ has bid and his bid accepted for a digital painting for Rein Project itself! The job is for 0.2 BTC and 0.002 BTC will go to mediator bitspill at conclusion of the job.

Here is the offer which when funded made for Rein's first official in-process job!

Code:

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Rein Offer
Job name: Twitter Header Image for Rein
Worker: mickmarona
Description: Friday
Bid amount (BTC): 0.2
Primary escrow address: 3GLQ2Sg25CHmmGbGPs1wREtSnAMXunvwpk
Mediator escrow address: 3FRpKRAb3iN5Mmdq9k37vrHLXfuJmkuZWR
Job ID: e7p8ma77yy106ky35cw9
Job creator: weex
Job creator public key: 0300d36a92be6d3c0b0d0aff5b14486b28013152acc4b55fc0ec84c4a209a3f234
Mediator public key: 025a19c3aa027e9114a2f79b6e2f76d85c5b3fb59723ea9dba97e019f1f751d0eb
Worker public key: 03172adca6a57a9713439f635e0057bca785c8769b69b9fafbb26ede2f3d111dc3
Primary escrow redeem script: 52210300d36a92be6d3c0b0d0aff5b14486b28013152acc4b55fc0ec84c4a209a3f23421025a19c3aa027e9114a2f79b6e2f76d85c5b3fb59723ea9dba97e019f1f751d0eb2103172adca6a57a9713439f635e0057bca785c8769b69b9fafbb26ede2f3d111dc353ae
Mediator escrow redeem script: 21025a19c3aa027e9114a2f79b6e2f76d85c5b3fb59723ea9dba97e019f1f751d0ebad51210300d36a92be6d3c0b0d0aff5b14486b28013152acc4b55fc0ec84c4a209a3f2342103172adca6a57a9713439f635e0057bca785c8769b69b9fafbb26ede2f3d111dc352ae
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
1dezq4MkERrT5vRKyMTLsugNz74JVy4U6
IE0droTbyG7yZ4lBT++/kyPCrw0B/n9MykV8dPvWqcuidINYWAu92QaOZIbXW+X5GxAt8VR2eN8xCIGHnPoOT4c=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

[weex]

The first transaction is 100% complete: 0.2 btc for this graphic by mickmarona, mediated by bitspill https://i.imgur.com/84Px8y3.png

Even got a writeup by Bitcoinist! http://bitcoinist.net/the-rein-project-completes-first-freelance-contract/

[Stemby]

weex, Mike Christ and bitspill: congratulations, you made history!

[weex]

A little update. Rein has now seen it's first job posting for a web template by a new user of the protocol.

This can be seen at the simple job listings at http://rein1-sfo.reinproject.org:5000/jobs

Blog theme

By: Flamcake   Master: 13PiFqmcFDYW36GYMuxtumPPB4p3674CWQ Job ID: ptsd1lvz2seajxk41tbu

Description: I need a basic blog theme that will be easy to edit for a new blogger. I need to be able to ad a header for a sponsor and 3 blocks for affiliate links and adds on the right hand site.

Also, that same user Flamcake has bid to tackle the Rein theme song and that bid has been accepted!

[Stemby]

This can be seen at the simple job listings at http://rein1-sfo.reinproject.org:5000/jobs

Oh, I like Spectacle! Thank you!

I'm trying to install Rein the Debian way; I'd have a question: why have you chosen Python 2.7, instead of Python 3? If I'm not wrong all dependencies are available in a Python 3 version, and packaging Python 2 applications could be problematic very soon.

[EDIT]
https://github.com/ReinProject/python-rein/issues/40
[/EDIT]

Ciao!

[weex]

The tech talk last night was a ton of fun and thank you for everyone that logged on for it.

Thinking about hosting a blab.im session sometime this week to talk about Rein and help anyone who wants to get setup. Anyone interested?

[weex]

Scheduled a Blab for Thursday March 24th at 8pm PST if anyone has questions or wants help getting setup.

https://blab.im/david-r-sterry-decentralized-freelancing-with-rein-ask-questions-get-setup-chat

[weex]

Tor Support
Added Tor support to the Python-rein client. To get it, just 'git pull' and run 'python setup.py install'.

Then enable it with 'rein tor true'.

Finally, it's setup to use the default address and port provided by the Tor browser so from there on it should either work or throw an error that the socket cannot connect.

If anyone wants to review the code that added it, I'd greatly appreciate the extra eyeballs on the code. https://github.com/ReinProject/python-rein/pull/50

Time awareness in Rein using Bitcoin Core powers
In the last weeks, the server and client have both become time and blockchain aware. In short, the server connects to a local copy of Bitcoin Core to start providing latest block hashes and times for clients to include in their contracts. Thusly, the blockchain's time keeping can be used easily to enable expiration and updating of mediator availability, job postings, and bids.

[frogCorporation]

It looks good perhaps we'll try it

[weex]

Added nice article with updated pics of some stuff by BetByBitcoin: Review decentralized freelance market – Rein

[weex]

Released v0.2.0-alpha.

Changelog:

* GUI for identity setup and for job creators (post, offer jobs, accept deliveries, file disputes)

[weex]

Posted a new job for any of you python devs out there to help improve Rein's document sharing among servers. Budget is 0.1+ BTC.

[weex]

Still looking for more devs. Also someone with experience in management and growth of free open source software communities. If you know anyone, please stop by #Rein on freenode IRC.

[weex]

Current funding needs
~0.5 BTC for BIP32/39 in setup process
1.5 BTC for mobile app prototype
If you wish to help fund, let us know. Your donation can go directly into a multisig escrow for a specific job.

Timeline
Oct. 2015 - Planning begins
Jan 2016 - Alpha tagged, command-line version
March 2016 - First transaction completed - a digital painting
May 2016 - Tor support
Oct 2016 - Web-based user interface

[weex]

Bitcoin Freelancing & Dogfooding Rein
https://medium.com/@dsterry/bitcoin-freelancing-dogfooding-rein-ba78937757ba#.qwuuc8k33

[weex]

Development Roadmap Q1 2017

Mobile App
   Android based on http://imgur.com/a/nDpXW
   iOS app based on http://imgur.com/a/nDpXW - In process  
 
Usability
   BIP32/BIP39 - Done
   Easier final payments - Adding a wallet feature that builds, signs, and sends transactions via choice of third-party API. - Done
   Explore client-side encryption - In process

I18n
   Make app translatable - Done
   Primary languages of Philippines, India, China, Nigeria, Ukraine, Latvia,  and Thailand - In process

Safety
   Begin on reputation system, generate SIN - Done
   Enable user to rate others referenced by job - Done

Network efficiency
   Client helps share docs between servers

Privacy
   Enable bids and later to be encrypted for decryption only by parties to transaction
   Change doc format to json

[razoor]

Look very promising and active. Good luck with your project!
If you need any help, just let me know.

[weex]

Updated roadmap.

[nrm4bits]

hey man, do you want help in translating app to Spanish?