[BPS] Bitcoin Project of the Season - Winter 2014 - Winner: BitWasp

[phelix]

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These links are just a sample of how far we've gone in just two months. It really does feel like an exclusion to me.

As Mol pointed out your project simply was not nominated in time. Please be patient for the next round.

[phelix]

The two romantic guys with their Trezor are pretty much dominating this round so maybe we should have a second and third place, too  

[charleshoskinson]

yes yes, your project is great, but your personal behavior here actually keeps me from liking it.

BEP wasn't excluded. It was simply not included because noone nominated it.

You come in here claiming

This isn't my project. It is a community built and maintained educational effort seeking to both globalize and benefit everyone in the Crypto-Currency community. We are even reaching out to altcoins and projects like BitMessage to better broadcast their efforts and unique utility. I get defensive whenever our project is excluded from a list like this because it's more than an attack on me, it's an attack on the now 25 volunteers who have committed their time without compensation to help us advance BEP's goals.

because of this.

That's clearly discrediting all other projects on the list.

wtf, dude? That's just unbelievably arrogant.

What is arrogant is to build a list without any effort to market nominations for some reasonable period of time (say a month) and then say its a representative list of innovative projects. You say BEP wasn't nominated, BEP wasn't even aware of this until just a few days ago nor were our thousands of students. I say it's fluff because this appears to simply be a vanity poll without any representative sample of the community as a whole. There are a lot of projects not on this list gathering huge community excitement, but I guess they weren't nominated.

Have fun with your vanity poll, I have no more time for this thread.

[knight22]

It's just that bitcoin is now big enough to make it hard to know everything that is going on surrounding it
No need to get pissed off, there is room for everybody

[freedomno1]

It's just that bitcoin is now big enough to make it hard to know everything that is going on surrounding it
No need to get pissed off, there is room for everybody

That's true information is important I'm happy to see its growing so big that were starting to have challenges keeping track of it all

I can say with pretty high confidence congrats Slush and Stick

[phelix]

And the winner is:

   
Summer 2013 http://bitcointrezor.com

Congratulations to TREZOR Hardware Bitcoin Wallet, the Bitcoin Project of the Quarter, Summer 2013

1st.    Trezor    - 52 (41.3%)
2nd.   Zerocoin    - 19 (15.1%)
3rd.    Kipochi    - 15 (11.9%)
Total of 126 votes.

Thanks to everyone for participating! See you in Autumn 2013

[stick]

Thank you for this competition and especially for your votes! Your support is much appreciated and means a lot to us.

[phelix]

Thank you for this competition and especially for your votes! Your support is much appreciated and means a lot to us.

You are welcome! What about a free Trezor for the winner of 2013BPQ4?

[Valerian77]

Basically there is not advantage of TREZOR to a paper wallet + Mycelium App.

But the concept is nice for people who do not own a smartphone.

[molecular]

Basically there is not advantage of TREZOR to a paper wallet + Mycelium App.

But the concept is nice for people who do not own a smartphone.

A paper wallet has no pin to protect from theft effectively. A paper wallet only holds 1 key, trezor has a whole tree of keys. A paper wallet doesn't do signatures, your phone does and at that point the key is potentially compromised.

[Valerian77]

Basically there is not advantage of TREZOR to a paper wallet + Mycelium App.

But the concept is nice for people who do not own a smartphone.

A paper wallet has no pin to protect from theft effectively. A paper wallet only holds 1 key, trezor has a whole tree of keys. A paper wallet doesn't do signatures, your phone does and at that point the key is potentially compromised.

Agree - then simply use Mycelium or any other smartphone wallet on a secured samrtphone only. It even has the advantage of possible backups. Currently I just see the price advantage for TREZOR

[Carlton Banks]

Basically there is not advantage of TREZOR to a paper wallet + Mycelium App.

But the concept is nice for people who do not own a smartphone.

A paper wallet has no pin to protect from theft effectively. A paper wallet only holds 1 key, trezor has a whole tree of keys. A paper wallet doesn't do signatures, your phone does and at that point the key is potentially compromised.

Agree - then simply use Mycelium or any other smartphone wallet on a secured samrtphone only. It even has the advantage of possible backups. Currently I just see the price advantage for TREZOR

Oh this is where we've all been so wrong, we all forgot to use secure smartphones for our mobile wallets! How could we have been so blind? I will definitely be using a certified 100% infallibly secure smartphone with my Bitcoin wallet now that my eyes are open.

[crazy_rabbit]

Basically there is not advantage of TREZOR to a paper wallet + Mycelium App.

But the concept is nice for people who do not own a smartphone.

A paper wallet has no pin to protect from theft effectively. A paper wallet only holds 1 key, trezor has a whole tree of keys. A paper wallet doesn't do signatures, your phone does and at that point the key is potentially compromised.

Agree - then simply use Mycelium or any other smartphone wallet on a secured samrtphone only. It even has the advantage of possible backups. Currently I just see the price advantage for TREZOR

Is your smartphone designed by the NSA for Obama or something? I'm not aware of any commercially available secure smartphone. Even a fresh Android phone would have still had the RNG problem. Maybe Ubuntu's phone? But then, how do you really know it's secure? As long as it can 'talk' to the internet without you physically being aware of it, I would have a hard time calling that really secure.

Trezor is exactly that- a 'safe'.

[phelix]

Please take the TREZOR discussion to the proper place: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122438.0


Looking for a sponsor for the next BPQ: Autumn 2013

The price would go to one of the votees (poll participants).

[Valerian77]

Trezor is exactly that- a 'safe'.

So then - what happens if your TREZOR has a technical problem eg. after dipping into water ? Or what happens if it is stolen - you loose the content but nobody else can use it. I won't call that safe.

On the other side it is questionable if bigger amounts of fiat money was ever safe in our hands.

[phelix]

Trezor is exactly that- a 'safe'.

So then - what happens if your TREZOR has a technical problem eg. after dipping into water ? Or what happens if it is stolen - you loose the content but nobody else can use it. I won't call that safe.

On the other side it is questionable if bigger amounts of fiat money was ever safe in our hands.

Please read up about TREZOR and then take the discussion somewhere else.

[phelix]

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[phelix]

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[phelix]

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[phelix]

Nominations for Autumn 2013 are open. Post now (one sentence description and link is welcome).

What about: Bitmessage, Moneychanger, libcoin, libbitcoin, CoinControl


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