MasterCoin: New Protocol Layer Starting From “The Exodus Address”

[Rampion]

Any ETA for a Mastercoin advisory that works on Linux and OSX? I only see a Windows executable, and Windows is a PITA...

The original script is Python and will work anywhere

I tried hard to compile it on OSX but it doesn't work, it gives an error once you have entered all the parameters.

I cannot get it to work on Linux neither...

Couldn't you post clear, step by step compilation instructions for OSX and Linux? I think it will help a lot the OTC trading, right now everybody I speak to is using the Windows executable.

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[Tachikoma]

Any ETA for a Mastercoin advisory that works on Linux and OSX? I only see a Windows executable, and Windows is a PITA...

The original script is Python and will work anywhere

I tried hard to compile it on OSX but it doesn't work, it gives an error once you have entered all the parameters.

I cannot get it to work on Linux neither...

Couldn't you post clear, step by step compilation instructions for OSX and Linux? I think it will help a lot the OTC trading, right now everybody I speak to is using the Windows executable.

You don't have to compile it. You just run the script with Python. If you give me the error I will try to help you solve it.

[Rampion]

Any ETA for a Mastercoin advisory that works on Linux and OSX? I only see a Windows executable, and Windows is a PITA...

The original script is Python and will work anywhere

I tried hard to compile it on OSX but it doesn't work, it gives an error once you have entered all the parameters.

I cannot get it to work on Linux neither...

Couldn't you post clear, step by step compilation instructions for OSX and Linux? I think it will help a lot the OTC trading, right now everybody I speak to is using the Windows executable.

You don't have to compile it. You just run the script with Python. If you give me the error I will try to help you solve it.

OSX says "ImportError: No module named Crypto.Hash.SHA256"

Linux says "zero length field name in format" when I enter the destination addy for the MSC

[Tachikoma]

Any ETA for a Mastercoin advisory that works on Linux and OSX? I only see a Windows executable, and Windows is a PITA...

The original script is Python and will work anywhere

I tried hard to compile it on OSX but it doesn't work, it gives an error once you have entered all the parameters.

I cannot get it to work on Linux neither...

Couldn't you post clear, step by step compilation instructions for OSX and Linux? I think it will help a lot the OTC trading, right now everybody I speak to is using the Windows executable.

You don't have to compile it. You just run the script with Python. If you give me the error I will try to help you solve it.

OSX says "ImportError: No module named Crypto.Hash.SHA256"

Linux says "zero length field name in format" when I enter the destination addy for the MSC

OSX should be fixed by pip install python-crypto if you have pip installed.

Is Linux python 2.6?

[Rampion]

Any ETA for a Mastercoin advisory that works on Linux and OSX? I only see a Windows executable, and Windows is a PITA...

The original script is Python and will work anywhere

I tried hard to compile it on OSX but it doesn't work, it gives an error once you have entered all the parameters.

I cannot get it to work on Linux neither...

Couldn't you post clear, step by step compilation instructions for OSX and Linux? I think it will help a lot the OTC trading, right now everybody I speak to is using the Windows executable.

You don't have to compile it. You just run the script with Python. If you give me the error I will try to help you solve it.

OSX says "ImportError: No module named Crypto.Hash.SHA256"

Linux says "zero length field name in format" when I enter the destination addy for the MSC

OSX should be fixed by pip install python-crypto if you have pip installed.

Is Linux python 2.6?

I don't know what's pip

On linux python version is 2.7.5+

[Tachikoma]

I don't know what's pip

On linux python version is 2.7.5+

Try running the executable and see if you have it installed on your OS X version.

If not (sudo) easy_install pip and then the pip install again.

[Rampion]

I don't know what's pip

On linux python version is 2.7.5+

Try running the executable and see if you have it installed on your OS X version.

If not (sudo) easy_install pip and then the pip install again.

After installing pip I get this:

Downloading/unpacking python-crypto
  Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement python-crypto
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for python-crypto

[TomHirsch]

and then run the PR campaign to put it into the media.

How's that PR campaign going anyway?  Did we see any measurable results for our $6000/wk?  Or did that money just disappear?

[Tachikoma]

Try pycrypto instead

[abuelau]

Guys, today I sent MSC for the first time (from me to myself!) and I was very excited that it worked.

But I don't understand why it worked! 

I used MasterCoinAdvisor, I input the amount I want to send, etc. So far so good. Then, it tells me to send 0.00006 BTC to 3 addresses, I used Blockchain.info to send it.

What I don't understand though is this: I tell MasterCoinAdvisor how much MSC I want to send, but then I don't use that information anywhere when sending the 0.00006 BTC to the 3 addresses in Blockchain. So does this mean that MasterCoinAdvisor is communicating with the Mastercoin network somehow to record the information about my transaction before I send the 3 x 0.00006 BTC and then when I do send the 3 x 0.00006 BTC that's when the Mastercoin network acknowledges the transaction as valid?

If that's the case, then who is MasterCoinAdvisor communicating with exactly to store my transaction information before I send the 3 x 0.00006 BTC?

The data for your transaction is encoded into the 3rd output address from MastercoinAdvisor (known as the data address).

Ah, I see.

So this means that there's a (very small) chance that the data address is already someone's wallet and they will get a BTC 0.00006 transaction out of the blue?

[Tachikoma]

There is just as much chance of that happening as you would find the private key to any other address

[bitexch]

It should be said explicitly that Mastercoin's "first-mover advantage" - which JR mentions in his white paper - may disappear. Another project may hire full time developers, copy the Mastercoin code that has already been written, and complete its project before Mastercoin. This is not some highly improbable "worst case scenario", but a distinct possibility that everyone involved in Mastercoin should be concerned about.

This is not meant as a criticism of Mastercoin's current developers who, I know, are devoting what time they have to the project. What I write is directed at the board, which, in my view, is getting caught up in peripheral parts of the project, and is deferring judgment on questions of immediate importance. Rather than debating what currency we are going to pay developers in, we should hire developers!

EDIT: We should hire developers and, at least for now, simply ask them in what currency they would like to be paid.

[Rampion]

Try pycrypto instead

Now it works - thank you!

[crazy_rabbit]

It should be said explicitly that Mastercoin's "first-mover advantage" - which JR mentions in his white paper - may disappear. Another project may hire full time developers, copy the Mastercoin code that has already been written, and complete its project before Mastercoin. This is not some highly improbable "worst case scenario", but a distinct possibility that everyone involved in Mastercoin should be concerned about.

This is not meant as a criticism of Mastercoin's current developers who, I know, are devoting what time they have to the project. What I write is directed at the board, which, in my view, is getting caught up in peripheral parts of the project, and is deferring judgment on questions of immediate importance. Rather than debating what currency we are going to pay developers in, we should hire developers!

EDIT: We should hire developers and, at least for now, simply ask them in what currency they would like to be paid.

Well, at least mastercoin has a few million dollars in it's development chest at this point. :-)

[bitlo]

It should be said explicitly that Mastercoin's "first-mover advantage" - which JR mentions in his white paper - may disappear. Another project may hire full time developers, copy the Mastercoin code that has already been written, and complete its project before Mastercoin. This is not some highly improbable "worst case scenario", but a distinct possibility that everyone involved in Mastercoin should be concerned about.

This is not meant as a criticism of Mastercoin's current developers who, I know, are devoting what time they have to the project. What I write is directed at the board, which, in my view, is getting caught up in peripheral parts of the project, and is deferring judgment on questions of immediate importance. Rather than debating what currency we are going to pay developers in, we should hire developers!

EDIT: We should hire developers and, at least for now, simply ask them in what currency they would like to be paid.

he raises a valid concern though

[Patel]

It should be said explicitly that Mastercoin's "first-mover advantage" - which JR mentions in his white paper - may disappear. Another project may hire full time developers, copy the Mastercoin code that has already been written, and complete its project before Mastercoin. This is not some highly improbable "worst case scenario", but a distinct possibility that everyone involved in Mastercoin should be concerned about.

This is not meant as a criticism of Mastercoin's current developers who, I know, are devoting what time they have to the project. What I write is directed at the board, which, in my view, is getting caught up in peripheral parts of the project, and is deferring judgment on questions of immediate importance. Rather than debating what currency we are going to pay developers in, we should hire developers!

EDIT: We should hire developers and, at least for now, simply ask them in what currency they would like to be paid.

Well, at least mastercoin has a few million dollars in it's development chest at this point. :-)

Maybe not for long, someone was talking buying Mastercoin with the Bitcoins fundraised, and paying the developers in Mastercoin. Pretty sure this would just harm the project. It will also create a pump from initially acquiring the Mastercoins, and then a dump when the developers sell them to pay their real life expenses.

[bitlo]

It should be said explicitly that Mastercoin's "first-mover advantage" - which JR mentions in his white paper - may disappear. Another project may hire full time developers, copy the Mastercoin code that has already been written, and complete its project before Mastercoin. This is not some highly improbable "worst case scenario", but a distinct possibility that everyone involved in Mastercoin should be concerned about.

This is not meant as a criticism of Mastercoin's current developers who, I know, are devoting what time they have to the project. What I write is directed at the board, which, in my view, is getting caught up in peripheral parts of the project, and is deferring judgment on questions of immediate importance. Rather than debating what currency we are going to pay developers in, we should hire developers!

EDIT: We should hire developers and, at least for now, simply ask them in what currency they would like to be paid.

Well, at least mastercoin has a few million dollars in it's development chest at this point. :-)

Maybe not for long, someone was talking buying Mastercoin with the Bitcoins fundraised, and paying the developers in Mastercoin. Pretty sure this would just harm the project. It will also create a pump from initially acquiring the Mastercoins, and then a dump when the developers sell them to pay their real life expenses.

that suggestion was turned down i believe

[Patel]

that suggestion was turned down i believe

great to know

[bitexch]

It should be said explicitly that Mastercoin's "first-mover advantage" - which JR mentions in his white paper - may disappear. Another project may hire full time developers, copy the Mastercoin code that has already been written, and complete its project before Mastercoin. This is not some highly improbable "worst case scenario", but a distinct possibility that everyone involved in Mastercoin should be concerned about.

This is not meant as a criticism of Mastercoin's current developers who, I know, are devoting what time they have to the project. What I write is directed at the board, which, in my view, is getting caught up in peripheral parts of the project, and is deferring judgment on questions of immediate importance. Rather than debating what currency we are going to pay developers in, we should hire developers!

EDIT: We should hire developers and, at least for now, simply ask them in what currency they would like to be paid.

Well, at least mastercoin has a few million dollars in it's development chest at this point. :-)

The point is that we should try not to make mistakes (such as not hiring developers when we have millions of dollars), and if we do make a mistake we should try to correct it as quickly and effectively as possible. It's a big project and there will undoubtedly be real difficulties to overcome as the project develops; therefore I can't see the sense in not resolving those problems that are within our control, and I think that pointing to Mastercoin's advantages in order to excuse its self-imposed disadvantages is the wrong attitude.

[bitexch]

that suggestion was turned down i believe

great to know

Can someone from the board confirm that JR's proposed buy back was turned down?