Very blummin nice! It has been quite some years since I even looked into, let alone involved with (since the Mt Gox debacle) since I am clueless of where to buy or sell bitcoins in an easy and legit bank-like manner (not some ebay bidding trading kind of site, so if you know of any good ones in the UK please let me know. I would like to dip my toe back into BTC as a user not a miner)

I would like to request you add an option to the paper wallet section to make some kind of cover to prevent someone seeing through an envelope. Kind of like how pin numbers for credit cards have random wavy lines and things right up against the pin to make it way hard or maybe even impossible to detect the info. It would be nice if there were some kind of thing like that, which you can sandwich face to face with the actual page to protect the QR codes through an envelope?

Just an idea.

Amazing system you have made. I was at first annoyed thinking it was a system making me dependent on going to a website but now I know it is offline and I have it saved I am very very happy indeed :-)

After communication with someone from that company, I know they need to work on their customer service skills a little. But aside from that, they have assured me that if I am trying to get my money from mt.gox for the lowest fee cost possible that I don't need to be going with them as their fees are high period.


Looks like I am not going to go with this company after all. I am not going to pay a ridiculously high fee like that for a domestic "direct transfer" as I have been assured will stand, even though it says "Wire Transfer (GBP) fee" they say the fee goes for even a domestic direct transfers.

If I sell you something and you come pick it up and I say "The postage fee is £15" yet you picked it up because you live next door, that is wrong and borderline illegal in my opinion. You do not pay "Wire" fees on a domestic direct transfer. I know they said they use a third party company for UK transfers and thus they incur fees, but if the fee to the customer is the same for wire and domestic, why do a hidden domestic transfer when it is labled as wire?

I just don't like how things are going on there. Even if they re-label the fee to something more accurate, £15 for a domestic uk to uk direct transfer costing the same £15 for a "Wire" transfer seems like a total boat load of milkage of the customer.

I sincerely hope they reconsider their fee policy, especially if they are behind the scenes doing direct transfers and charging the same fees as an international "wire".

Just my opinion, I am not saying I am right or they are wrong. I just, in my opinion, think this is not a good idea unless you are transfering very large amounts of money over the place due to the fees even on small transactions.


I hope Mt.Gox gets their accounts sorted so I can just deal with someone I know who won't spill half my money into their cup while handing it to me.

I am in an email dialogue with someone high up at AurumXchange and so far I am not impressed at what I am reading. Depending on how this goes, I will have a few things to say here... I am hoping things go well.

That is very nice, however it still wants to do a "wire" transfer thus costing £15 per transfer, I am unable to use this as the amount I would end up with after that fee would be very very minimal. I would like to see where this direct transfer is at on that site...

Updated version. Mt Gox had changed the API. This has now been updated.

The pool sites usually tell you on the page somewhere. Usually under some kind of "Statistics" page, or sometimes even on the front page.

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6839/btccapability.png

Download: http://www.wuala.com/morthawt/btc.capability/

I made this to auto get mt.gox exchange rate and the current bitcoin difficulty automatically. You put your favourite pool's hash rate and your own personal total hash rate and it will tell you how many bitcoins you could expect to make in 1 day and in 28 days. It also shows you the currency values of the two. Additionally it tells you the typical time taken to complete 1 block using that pool.

First release public release is V 1.9

Please try this out and see if you find it useful. Please report any bugs or issues. If you like it, please consider donating.

Enjoy :-)

Thanks!

If someone wants to steal your wallet they can because everyone's wallet is stored in the same place and has to be accessible to be used by the bitcoin program. So the solution is to either restrict access to the wallet or move the wallet.

To restrict the wallet run your bitcoin from a different useraccount in windows and make the folder where the wallet resides only accessible to THAT user the program is running on and its ownership reflects the same. This means file permissions and ownership changes.. Then go into your "Local Security Policy" in windows and set it so that only that username where your bitcoin runs from has access to take ownership over files. Then also in local security policy, you need to set it so that UAC requires authentication, this means not just a "press yes if you want to do this" this means "type your password to continue". Once you have done this malware cannot just change things on your system to easily access the wallet.


Another method is to move the wallet. You can use a program called Cameyo to make a portable version of bitcoin and then the wallet can be isolated in its own folder because the changes to the system it makes are "sandboxed" meaning they do not actually go into the system but rather in a dedicated folder that emulates the file system to the program, so the program (bitcoin) thinks its wallet is in the normal place but really that is cameyo telling bitcoin "Hey, this folder is your appdata" and then it just works. The only way a malware/hacker could steal your wallet with this method is to scan the entire system looking for wallet.dat which is possible.. but more work.

Another method is to run a virtual machine in your computer via VMWare, Virtual PC, Parallels, Virtualbox etc. This would completely isolate your bitcoin from your physical system by keeping ALL files hidden inside a virtual computer. Your wallet could only be stolen if the hacker gets access to your pc either physically or remotely and manually uses your computer mouse and keyboard to go into that virtual environment and copy to flash drive or upload to email your wallet from inside that environment.

Just a thought.

They need a decent API with the vital statistics only. Those guys don't have any kind of API I can find. Most people and sites use mtgox as the "gold standard" value of bitcoin. If I add any other exchanges into the program I would need to add all of them which would make the program far too convoluted.

If tradehill add a similar API to their site I will look into the possibility of doing that. Right now they have no comparible API to the one that mtgox has.

Thanks. I do what I can to make it as functional and useful as possible.

Updated: Added a miniature version of the watcher to the "tools" menu that is always on top, so when you want to keep an eye on the rates but save screen space, you can choose to bring up that mini window aptly named "MinX"

Enjoy.

EDIT:
I uploaded 1.4.8 again due to a mislabled label. Nothing major but before on the mini view, it updated to both saying "buy". That is now fixed.
Please download 1.4.8 again if you notice you got the early mislabled version.


EDIT:
I updated to 1.4.9  due to switching the terminology to bid and ask rather than the api's internal choice of buy and sell.

EDIT:
I updated to 1.5  due to overlooking a couple of labels that were still on the old "buy/sell" text.

Thank you! I enjoy making something nice that can benefit everyone. Donations make you feel really good because its confirmation that someone out there really does appreciate and enjoy your work!

If anyone else has any comments, questions or feedback I would love to see it.

Now I have successfully added a check box so that you can choose to keep the window on the top at all times, or simply uncheck it to have its normal behaviour.

Enjoy!

Thught about this, I need to research if I can do this. My attempt failed dismally.



Thank you!

Version 1.4.6
A currency conversion tool has been coded for the program now. I have enclosed both the ability to convert from bitcoin - another currency or how much bitcoin could be bought with a certain amount and type of currency.

Currency conversion is done via google's api and only requires the 3 digit currency code such as GBP or USD or CAD etc etc...

So now you can find out at a glance how many bitcoins you could buy, or how much money you could get from your bitcoins.

Enjoy another updated release.

Anyone got any feedback for me on the current state of the program or the progress its taking.

Comments, questions, feedback?

Thanks

Updated to version 1.4.4 to include saving/restoring/resetting of your settings. Also you can now choose the delay that the program will retrieve fresh exchange rate information (default 10 seconds)

yea its hypothetically possible but it would mean manually going in and editing all the GUI again which has to be edited in text plus then do all that specialized manual http connection code which is far too much. Plus it would only work for people using mtgox any way. At least this is the market in general so that people can then trade on what ever sites they like to trade on. If it were built in to AutoIt3 to be able to "post" then I would use it, but that takes too much memorizing and I hate copy/pasting code from sites to do things. Im a "either I understand it and can do it every time any time, or I don't do that" I hate copy/pasting code so much because it is not "my" code or something I can write from scratch.