Quote from: John Smith on August 09, 2011, 10:43:59 AM

Quote from: markm on August 09, 2011, 10:23:24 AM

Tah-dah! Enter DeVCoin, whose official GUI client is devcoin-qt

Are you on the list of recipients Unthinkingbit set up for donations?

DeVCoin doesn't even require you to have a separate address for receiving DeVCoin, it uses your normal donation address so you can be receiving DeVCoin with which to eventually maybe motivate people (maybe mostly after exchanges have been set up so they can cash it in if they don't actually "believe" in it themselves).

I am in this list. However, doesn't DeVCoin involve an all-new block chain? I don't think it is practical to expect everyone to switch to a new chain just to pay the developers Sad

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We get a new block-chain ever other week. I suspect that most of those are just people that wants to be ultra early adopters, but got late on bitcoin. So the easy solution is start your own block chain.

Quote from: John Smith on August 09, 2011, 10:43:59 AM

Quote from: aq on August 09, 2011, 10:33:06 AM

To have done it in a really secure way, multiple developers have to review and compile this on their own, and then publish the hashes. Automatic compiled binaries wouldn't bring that much, because you could just commit some "send all coins to me" code and everyone pulling the code would still have the same hash.

You get it wrong. The problem here is not that I am distrusted (or the source code). Everyone can audit my code on github and see the history of every change (also, if I wanted to steal your money I'd be writing windows rootkits instead of trying to help a fledgling distributed currency)

The problem is that build environments might have viruses, trojans, and the .exe might be infected during upload/download. You can audit source not executables. Hence you need multiple people to buid it and arrive at the same answer.

I see. Good point.

Quote from: John Smith on August 09, 2011, 10:43:59 AM

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On a side note, I for one, would like to compile it using VS. As far as I have tested, your code does not compile out of the box using VS. It does using the mingw, which is really great. But to be honest, compiling and debugging is way to slow using mingw.

Well then, fix it to build in VS (and contribute back the build scripts + instructions). I am not against that I just don't use it myself. I don't even use windows on most days, and if it is in a VM to test whether it still builds.

Point taken. However, this was the reason me asking for a bounty site. I would probably spend a little on such point like this, and when others join with their bitcoins, it could make enough for some developer to say, hey I'll make this and take the bounty.

Quote from: markm on August 09, 2011, 10:23:24 AM

Quote from: John Smith on August 09, 2011, 10:06:41 AM

But how to motivate people to help?

Tah-dah! Enter DeVCoin, whose official GUI client is devcoin-qt

I am pretty sure that a trusted bounty site would be better than any new block chain.