Bounty for open source ByteCoin/Monero GUI

[Jojatekok]

New to the wallet and having an issue.
Didn't have enough room on my hardrive as blockchain was synching.

Deleted, reextracted new wallet to 2nd hard drive - but now i have 0 connections.

What gives?

The blockchain's path is not related - in any way - to the Client's path. As an SSD user, I have already been planning to implement an option to relocate the blockchain's path, so a solution will be available for you soon.

v0.30.0 will introduce big core changes, so it's going to be an experimental release.


EDIT: Finally, there will be a notification about this



EDIT #2:

Monero Client v0.30.0 (Experimental) is here!
https://github.com/Jojatekok/monero-client/releases/tag/v0.30.0

Please be aware that this release is not intended for use in scenarios which require maximum stability, as this version introduces changes to the core which may affect functionality. I have successfully implemented RPC support for simplewallet, but - as it had been discussed earlier on the #monero-dev IRC channel - it may fail "silently" along with the daemon, thus, no notifications may be shown about incoming transactions.

Although this is an experimental release, your wallet files are always safe and cannot be corrupted by my software. Report any bugs or crashes which you encounter: I only know about one which happens when the wallet RPC is not yet available, but the blockchain has been synced, thus, the 'Send' [transaction] button is enabled and causes a crash when pressed.

[rangedriver]

Can I recommend that you name your client with something unique, rather than "Monero Client."

This serves a few purposes, not least making it obvious it's not an official GUI.

I'm thinking a cool name. Like Firebird Client or something.

[Jojatekok]

Can I recommend that you name your client with something unique, rather than "Monero Client."

This serves a few purposes, not least making it obvious it's not an official GUI.

I'm thinking a cool name. Like Firebird Client or something.

That should not be a problem until the Monero team hasn't decided about the "official" GUI. I will be taking action as soon as it confuses people from the official solution.

I have to go on a short holiday now, so the development will pause for some days. I would also like to ask the XMR team to decide about the official wallet interface within the following week. It is one of the most important steps in the lifecycle of a cryptocurrency.


EDIT #1: As someone has requested before, I am working on a new balance estimation machanism which takes TX fee in account:



EDIT #2:

Monero Client v0.31.0 has been released!
https://github.com/Jojatekok/monero-client/releases/tag/v0.31.0

Besides the balance and fee calculator implemented into the Send coins tab, this release features selection of your balances on the Overview tab. Also, we are celebrating the 15th language being added. Thanks for everyone, this is amazing!


EDIT #3: Well, I've just realized that I forgot to implement real functionality when adjusting the TX fee. I would fix this ASAP, but am not near a computer with Visual Studio 2013 on it. Don't worry, this does NOT critically affect anything.

[fluffypony]

Afrikaans translation done!

Rerig? Mooi, boet, en dankie - nou sal al die 'expats' Monero gebruik;)

[fluffypony]

Ok so to conclude the Monero GUI bounty, we've spent a GREAT deal of time discussing this and trying to figure out what to do.

To give you some pretext to our decision: we were looking for a GUI wallet that had the following features:

- open source (as the title says)
- cross platform (as clarified by tacotime here)
- must work (I know this sounds funny, but you'd be surprised at the amount of non-working submissions bounties get)
- must support a minimum set of core functions (sending payments with a payment ID, for instance)

There has been a lot of really great work that has been done by a bunch of developers, and I think it's awesome that this is pretty much the first cryptocurrency I've seen that has multiple actively developed GUI clients. This is AWESOME, because it means that end users are the ones that benefit - they can pick and choose a client that is most suited to them. It also means that reference code will exist in multiple languages using multiple technologies, and this will vastly cut down on the effort required in the future by various projects. If you've developed a GUI client, please don't stop maintaining it:)

As it stands right now, we won't be integrating any of these GUI clients into the main codebase just yet, as there is still a great deal of underlying work that must be done before we can ship a GUI wallet that just about anyone can run (unless we want to make the minimum memory requirement 8gb and the minimum Internet connection requirement 20mbps;) That having been said, we will continue to recommend the actively developed GUI wallets to anyone who prefers to use a GUI wallet, and that is the main purpose behind closing and awarding this bounty now: to have a short-list of recommended GUI wallets.

Our rationale behind how we awarded the bounty is as follows (from smallest to greatest portion) -

jwinterm - 5%, for using python and kivy, both great alternatives to Qt and providing awesome reference code
BitKoot - 5%, for having the first working wallet out the gate, and for adding to it where possible
Jojatekok - 20%, for ticking many of the boxes, and for his ongoing and active development
neozaru - 70%, for having the most tightly-integrated, cross-platform GUI. He has also contributed a bunch of code upstream to the Monero core, much of which is useful not only to his project but to other GUIs.

Good job, everyone! Please PM smooth your XMR and BCN addresses, and he will sort payment out as soon as he gets a moment.

[smooth]

Please try to submit payment addresses ASAP. I would like to do as many as possible at one time and I plan to make thi first batch of payments in approximately 24 hours

[BitKoot]

Ok so to conclude the Monero GUI bounty, we've spent a GREAT deal of time discussing this and trying to figure out what to do.

Great news! I agree with the distribution of the bounty. Good to see everyone who has put effort into this will be rewarded.

[Jojatekok]

Thank you for both the organization of the bounty, and people who have participated in it. This means a lot to the currency, so I hope that all the developers (including myself ) are planning to continue their precious projects. I am definitely going to keep being a Monero supporter, because of all the features it provides, and the great community of Bitcoin veterans involved in it.

Ohh, and I will have to rename my client in order not to cause confusion in newbies' heads.

[r3wt]

Monero is truly a shining star among a sea of pump and dumps and scam coins. Congratulations on the conclusion of the GUI project, and a great job by all involved.

[statdude]

Can we have a list of cohesive links to the winners in the main monero thread please?

[jwinterm]

Can we have a list of cohesive links to the winners in the main monero thread please?

you can copypasta me over to main thread, statdude:

the winner and still undisputed champion of monero gui's: https://github.com/Neozaru/bitmonero-qt

the runner-up but always helpful and most linguistic: https://github.com/Jojatekok/monero-client

the pioneer and most firstest monero gui maker: https://github.com/BitKoot/CryptoNoteWallet

and my own humble offering: https://github.com/jwinterm/cryptonoteRPCwalletGUI

 

[statdude]

Can we have a list of cohesive links to the winners in the main monero thread please?

you can copypasta me over to main thread, statdude:

the winner and still undisputed champion of monero gui's: https://github.com/Neozaru/bitmonero-qt

the runner-up but always helpful and most linguistic: https://github.com/Jojatekok/monero-client

the pioneer and most firstest monero gui maker: https://github.com/BitKoot/CryptoNoteWallet

and my own humble offering: https://github.com/jwinterm/cryptonoteRPCwalletGUI

 

Thanks 

[Jojatekok]

I've renamed Monero Client to Monero Client .NET, and released v0.32.0 along with some quick overhauls, including a fix for custom TX fees, and adding a separate directory for storing languages. Downloiading this version will cause your settings to be reset.

Please be aware that the Transifex URL has been changed too! It's https://www.transifex.com/organization/jojatekok/dashboard/monero-client-net from now.


EDIT: As the bounty is over, I will keep posting updates about my client at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=683365.msg7750605#msg7750605

[dnaleor]

congratz to all the winners!
enjoy my 10 XMR 

[smooth]

jwinterm - 5%, for using python and kivy, both great alternatives to Qt and providing awesome reference code
BitKoot - 5%, for having the first working wallet out the gate, and for adding to it where possible
Jojatekok - 20%, for ticking many of the boxes, and for his ongoing and active development
neozaru - 70%, for having the most tightly-integrated, cross-platform GUI. He has also contributed a bunch of code upstream to the

I have all of the payment addresses except a BCN address from neozaru. I have PMed requesting it and as soon as that is received I will proceed to pay out.

[smooth]

I want to report here on the status of the bounty payments.

The bounty wallet should be considered closed at this time, please do not submit any further donations.

First, I will be unable to make the BCN bounty payment immediately, because the current BCN code base from github fails to compile (on Ubuntu 12.04). Those payments will be held until I am able to perform a successful clean build of the BCN wallet.

Regarding the XMR bounty, I received additional payments of 42 (block 92331) and 1000 (block 113551).  I believe these are from wallet42 and NoodleDoodle respectively. This brings the total XMR wallet balance to 2676. This is slightly more than the total of the pledges in post #1 (the total listed there is incorrect, should be 2664)

Code:

./simplewallet --wallet bounty-gui
Height 92331, transaction <4abf2b4fe5dffa042d60a0f692c93452748bfd43758032bcde3d251f914f2202>, received 2.000000000000
Height 92331, transaction <4abf2b4fe5dffa042d60a0f692c93452748bfd43758032bcde3d251f914f2202>, received 40.000000000000
Height 113551, transaction <3ecef10841807580cd87210134e0d935e8f37725e1340d917e510187293f7cfe>, received 500.000000000000
Height 113551, transaction <3979c0b359c14a487ec621ff91900f1e4d52c53712dc6477e15da4c5386b43b4>, received 500.000000000000
Refresh done, blocks received: 101277                           
balance: 2676.000000000000, unlocked balance: 2676.000000000000

I am not holding the pledge of 5000 MINT from ficklepickle; the winners will need to contact that user directly to receive payment, if they have not done so already.

The XMR payments will be as follows:

jwinterm (5%) = 133.8 XMR

BitKoot (5%) = 133.8 XMR

Jojatekok (20%) = 535.2 XMR

neozaru (70%) = 1,873.2 XMR

The standard XMR transaction fee of 0.005 will be deducted from each payment. Neozaru's payment will be sent last and additional transaction fees or dust consolidation that end up being deducted by wallet (if any) will be deducted from neozaru's payment such that the entire balance of the wallet is paid out. Hopefully this will not happen, but I'm not sure.

Payments will be sent shortly.

[smooth]

All of the XMR distributions from the bounty fund are now complete. Transaction details have been sent to the winners.

There was fortunately no need for any additional deduction from neozaru's payment. All four payments were made in the exact amount specified (less standard 0.005 XMR fee), leaving a remaining balance in the bounty fund wallet of zero:

Code:

[wallet 4BBi2m]: refresh
Starting refresh...
Refresh done, blocks received: 3
balance: 0.000000000000, unlocked balance: 0.000000000000

[Jojatekok]

All of the XMR distributions from the bounty fund are now complete. Transaction details have been sent to the winners.

There was fortunately no need for any additional deduction from neozaru's payment. All four payments were made in the exact amount specified (less standard 0.005 XMR fee), leaving a remaining balance in the bounty fund wallet of zero:

Code:

[wallet 4BBi2m]: refresh
Starting refresh...
Refresh done, blocks received: 3
balance: 0.000000000000, unlocked balance: 0.000000000000

Thank You and the whole team for being so honest and transparent! It really has strenghtened my belief in Monero, thus, I will definitely keep developing my GUI wallet.