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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: OFFICIAL LAUNCH: New Protocol Layer Starting From “The Exodus Address”
by
zathras
on 16/09/2013, 23:01:28 UTC
I thought I should make a post and detail what I'm working on Smiley

I'm currently attempting a build of a web wallet and block explorer - 'Masterchest'.  Some notes:

* Ground-up build (though bitcoind still used to return raw tx info over JSON-RPC)
* Hosted at masterchest.info
* Everything will be open sourced - I think this is in the best interests of a web wallet so the community can peer review for weaknesses etc
* The web wallet has simplicity in mind and will only manage MSC, not MSC & BTC.  This lowers risk and complexity.  You'll instead be able to simply buy 'transactions' (eg 20 for 0.01BTC - whatever it works out to be - I'll fund first 5 transactions myself for all users).  This allows the system to simply hold a count of each users available transactions rather than attempt to handle bitcoin funds too.
* Tools to lookup addresses and transactions (block explorer)
* Initial support will be simple send only
* There will definitely be restrictions on how many MSC you can store (probably <100MSC per account), especially during development

I have a family and a full-time job so time is already a luxury for me! but I bought some Mastercoins and I'd like to contribute to the project - doing my best to find time to work on this!  If by some miracle I complete all the functions I'll happily jump in to try and get my head around the storage issue to contribute, though I think brighter minds than mine are already hard at work on this.

At present I'm in the middle of finishing the parsing engine (decoding the raw transactions where Exodus is an output and warehousing them in a format that facilitates easy data retrieval) - I have a semi-working implementation but I'm not willing to open it up just yet. I'll post updates here as I (hopefully) progress.  

Edit: Pictures help so quick teaser screenshot