How does this differ from other notary services that try to use the blockchain for this purpose ? This isn't addressed very well in the ANN. Not to mention, there is a bias against this type of use (non-financial data in blockchain), how do you plan to combat such criticisms?

I think there are a lot of developers in this space who are looking for the kind of work you proposed.

"Hack something up" and "2-3 days" are very mutual ideas so there is definitely some overlap between hacker/programmer culture and the finite space of ideas... If you could post a few more details about what the end result would be and who your demographics would be I'm sure some fine talented people will be knocking down your door to help.

Hey Bitcurex, have you considered adding an easier method for 2-factor authentication? I started using Clef recently and it was much safer (in my opinion) and easier to use than traditional methods like Google Auth and Authy.

Would love to see this considered as an option for 2-factor on your platform.

Pretty sure this could be a way to make 2 factor authentication easy for exchanges to implement, then maybe we will start seeing less of what happened to blockchain.info and others. Exchanges and wallet providers *need* a secure way to keep their login details from prying eyes, and as far as I can tell Clef is actually a solution. Bitstamp, Coinbase, you guys need to listen and pay attention here.

This was a really insightful discussion led by Paul of Factom, discussing digitial identity and trust while also speaking humbly about Factom's origins as an identity service! Crucial watching for Factom-fans and would-be Factoid-owners- Their code is getting developed everyday (https://github.com/FactomProject/FactomCode) and just going through the tax documentation use case (https://github.com/FactomProject/FactomDocs/tree/master/examples/tax) is enough for me to see the real value they are trying to bring to the blockchain. Bravo guys!

Hm, I'm curious, how or where are you getting the data to reconstruct the Armory tx? If you haven't looked at their code, I think this approach is perilous, since Armory's custom format will surely throw your code in disarray.

For example, I'm not sure if the bytes from utxo's are appended like this:

refund us man whats going on

"However, even if that was fixed, you still need the previous TxOut scripts in order to execute signing, which have to be retrieved from the blockchain -- again something else that Armory's TxDP structure bundles with it, but a raw unsigned tx from Bitcoin Core does not have."

I think  you could make an additional query to the blockchain from bitcoin-core to find this info, AFAIK that is what we are doing now, but the answer to the above question is basically Armory has metadata that has to be fetched while online first, if going from bitcoin-core tx -> Armory tx

etothepi, could you let us know what exactly that info is?

cause you have to let armory sort out whether the input you selected is a valid (unspent) one or not

Agree, refund

this just saved me so hard.

thanks bootloads rbdrbd, keep doin yer thing,

great dev work

Thanks. Will tip doge for that if you shoot me a PM with your address

what are the middlecoin mirrors again? I'm down and need to round-robin it.

Is /wallet/send /wallet/pushtx and wallet/* implemented somewhere? I'm unable to locate the server code that handles these POST requests. Thanks Graz

edit with reply from Grazcoin:


Graz I'm then wondering, is there no reason to run server.py? Which .py file handles GET requests then?

I think Curtis and Patrick have said it better but we're working on a limited/zero trust web wallet for Mastercoin users. Right now we have client-side encryption, storage, and signing soon to come, and aside from that I think Grazcoin and Grimentz have done great work on their implementation and have been really helpful in getting us up to speed (we're using their fork). The UI will be developed in parallel of Marv Schnieder and Yuval's feedback as well to maximize the user experience of using Mastercoin.

It is still in progress but as this is a bounty on reported progress I think it might be good just to inform others of where we stand.

I've commented as well.

This was me! Thanks for reposting.

Hi everybody, new as well. Hope to capture some marketshare while performing great deeds for humanity

I have several ideas for making Bitcoin a sustainable currency one of which is sustained mining. Calculating the numbers for what it takes for a miner to become profitable, and the current technology and hashrates, it is easy to come to the conclusion that for scrypt mining gear it takes ~1.5 months to break even on your initial investment. Next, its possible to make more if you invest in stronger giga-hashing power, although that claim is still yet to be explored (possibly through the group-buy system set up in BitcoinTalk>Economy>MarketPlace>Hardware ).

Surely the community will hear of my efforts if they come to fruition, thanks.

Hope to chat soon,
cya