Do we have an ETA for the android wallet? Also, do we know what features it will support (ie will you be able to mint coins with it or just spend them, will you be able to use a private key with it, etc etc?)
Thanks!
Its prob cloned off of litecoinj or
bitcoinj .. and will provide you ability to spend
but not mine. You can back up your wallet and restore etc.. but if its not done properly you will constantly have to redownload the blockchain from last checkpoint to sync you balance..
So sidhujag are you interested in creating a wallet for us? You bring it up alot and sounds like you kind of want to. If you can create a good working wallet that mints I'll even buy you a Mintcoin T-shirt since I know you're a fan! True Story
Code it so it can be private and not open source and I'll throw in 50,000 Mintcoins
Why not open source? What are you thinking?
It takes 2 weeks of work.. so 3.5 btc is going rate.
Could be more if pos needs to be implemented in Java.. if its just for spending thats the rate.
Just a thought:
I don't think that most people would want to put large amounts of Mintcoins on their mobile phones for minting; that just does not sound safe at all. The mobile app probably does not need to have PoS capability, but good enough to receive and send smaller transactions, the sort of thing you could go to a bar and pay for a beer with, but not be worried about having your phone stolen with millions of coins on it.
Its as safe as qt wallet.. It works nice.. spends start after 100 confirmations.. the benefit of this wallet is that you only need to download blockchain from today on.. and can use qr code for point of sales.. backup your wallet and transfer via nfc for sending coins offline.
Im sure if it wasnt safe btc wallet would have been hacked by now.
Guys,
How to create a *Coin Android Wallet:
http://www.hashengineeringsolutions.com/create-an-android-wallet/ <-- A little bit cryptic, but a good start point.
Anybody with experience on Android Apps can complete the task. The code is well documented and looks fine to me (I did a diff between both Github projects listed on that page and their parent projects and it looks OK to go).
As a matter of fact, the owner of those Github repos also does wallets on request. We might want to talk to him to see if we can get an arrangement.
Your call, people.
P.D.: I also think that have mining on our mobile phones would be wasteful since a) eats CPU so b) burns out the mobile's battery. Finally c) the mobile wallets are not meant to hold huge amounts of coins. Imagine anyone on the top 100 of the MintCoin rich list holding all his/her stash on their phone and suddenly going to the bathroom, then accidentally makes the device swim into the toilet. Or worst, theft. I know there's a lot of people that would say "you have to backup your wallet regularly" but in real life at least 80% of us human beings don't do backups as often as we should.
So my humble recommendation is: lets follow the KISS principle and ditch the mining-on-the-mobile-phone idea. A wallet that can hold the MINTs to spend is just enough.
I have a number of friends that all they use are "Android Tablets" no desktop PC or laptops. One was very disappointed was couldn't get a wallet for Mint on her tablet and wanted to know what she could do to get Mintcoins on her tablet. There are many many people like this throughout the world who just don't have desktop PC's or laptops. They either have Android, Apple or Windows, we already have wallets that will work on the Apple and Windows tablets.....we desperately need a Minting Wallet for the Android.
We all have to remember that cell phones are not the only thing out there that is Android.
Now a question I'll probably get laughed at for asking....Has there been, or will there ever be crypto wallets made for Blackberries?