Bridgewalker: euro-denominated wallet for the Bitcoin economy[Now part of Hive!]

[jav]

I presented Bridgewalker at the BitcoinKonferenz in Cologne on October 22. There is now a recording available: http://youtu.be/YWKkuQ__N7c . The talk is in German, but I added English subtitles (using YouTube's caption feature) and translated slides.

[hivewallet]

Hi everyone,

We are extremely pleased to announce the acquisition of Jan Vornberger's Bridgewalker wallet for Android. We are also extremely pleased to announce that Jan will be joining the Hive team. Hive for Android will be available in late spring, 2014.

Wendell:

Jan is an absolute legend in the community. Many will recall his early successes, including InstaWallet and Bitcoin Monitor. We could not be more excited to have him on board. Together we will build an extremely user-friendly Android wallet and extend our app platform into the mobile space.

Jan:

I am excited about the acquisition of Bridgewalker by Hive and am looking very much forward to joining the Hive team. I will be focusing foremost on bringing the Hive experience to the Android platform. Nevertheless, Bridgewalker will continue operating and I am excited about exploring this approach further with the help of the Hive team!

Hive for Android's public repo will open in early January.

Discussion thread here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=334383

[jav]

Bridgewalker is now open source! More info here: https://www.bridgewalkerapp.com/blog/2014/01/07/bridgewalker-open-source/ . Patches very welcome! :-)

[amincd]

May I ask the status of Bridgewalker now that MtGox has closed up shop?

I understand that it used MtGox to hold its reserves.

[jav]

May I ask the status of Bridgewalker now that MtGox has closed up shop?

I understand that it used MtGox to hold its reserves.

That's correct, unfortunately. I am traveling at the moment, but will give a more detailed update afterwards. Whatever happens though, all Bridgewalker users will be fully reimbursed. Sorry for the unavailability of the service at the moment.

[jav]

It is with regret, that I have to announce, that I have decided to shut down Bridgewalker. With Mt.Gox ultimately imploding, I currently do not want to invest the effort to switch the backend to another exchange. I will write up a "post mortem" that will go into more details regarding my decision. All user funds will be refunded in full. I will announce a claim process for that in the coming days. Thanks to everyone who supported this project!

[jav]

The claim process is now active. An update should be available shortly through Google Play which will allow you to submit a Bitcoin address, where you would like to have your funds sent.

More details in this blog post: https://www.bridgewalkerapp.com/blog/2014/03/14/bridgewalker-shutdown/ .

To end things on a positive note, I will now be completely focusing on Hive Android, which should be arriving shortly - keep an eye out for it! And who knows, maybe at some point Bridgewalker will be rising from its ashes. ;-) Thanks again to all beta users and everyone who helped me out along the way!