got a final rejection

Did you wanted to say that a new company is needed for submitting on Cydia or for re-submitting on App Store?

I will try to talk with the App review people at WWDC next week and see what exactly they object to.

For some reason, for me, this script on Ubuntu 11.04 cause Apache on the same machine not to start after reboot.
Any idea why?

The solution I found was to run
 sudo update-rc.d bitcoind defaults 92 8
If you already used the update-rc.d command without the numbers, you can undo it with
 sudo update-rc.d -f bitcoind remove

The 92 and 8 numbers where found by looking for what numbers Apache got for Kill and Start in /etc/rc0.d and /etc/rc2.d (was 91 and 9)

you need the $100/yr (the $5 app used to be free)

Also I am not sure if you can take someones else .app file and sign it with your provisioning file.
On a second thought I am sure you cant.
Because the App id has to match the certificate which you get from the developers site (to which you have access only if you pay $100/yr)

the latest .ipa file can be downloaded from https://s3.amazonaws.com/udibriphone/bitcoinApp.ipa
(in addition to testflight site)

Let me know if/how its possible for someone else to re-sign it with a new provisioning file.

For people that continue to signup for testing, I run out of devices I can add.

If any other iOS developer wants to build the App and sign it to few additional devices (UDID) then I can forward him the devices that signed up but are not in my test and then I can distribute the App back to the device owners

for one thing there is a limited supply of 50bc blocks that is going to end soon.
So you want to force yourself to take control of all these blocks before the network switches to 25bc blocks.

the idea is that a pool can once in while grab the 50bc that were rightly owned to a none member.
Doing it in a way that undermines the entire system.
Since it is impossible to know for sure who are the pool members then any time a split happens (and they do) then it could be a sign of illegal grabbing.

A 55% pool can coordinate their work and agree to continue to mine a block for one additional minute after a similar block was already found by a none member miner.
The pool also agree that if suc a delayed block is found they will continue to use it in the next block.
Finally the pool agree to abandon this branch if they are out computed for a second time in a row.

Let's see: it takes the pool to generate a new block at a little bit less that 20 min.
So they have a +5% chance of finding a block in the 1min.
The none members already started working on next block and in 10min they will find it,
The pool has only 9min but is bigger so there is about an equal chance for them to compute the second block first. When that happens the pool get bc of both blocks.
So income was doubled for giving up 10% of the time by adding the 1min

Interesting. I know that the App always crash on 4.2.1. Maybe this is related.
What iOS version do you have? Do you know if bitcoin has a recovery command-line-flag I can use?

Xcode fully supports git in a very nice way.
As for building the bitcoin App:
I broke the project into two repositories:
1) git@github.com:udibr/bitcoin.git
 is a fork out of the original bitcoin repository and in it I used #if TARGET_OS_IPHONE || TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR to mark my small changes.
2) git@github.com:udibr/bitcoinApp.git
is the App itself and this is where the Xcode project file for both repositories is held: BitCoin.xcodeproj

In addition you need to build several other packages for iPhone. The above is just an overview, the exact steps are described at
https://github.com/udibr/bitcoin/blob/master/build-iOS.txt

Good luck, Udi

sorry, I run out of iOS devices I can add to my beta test.
The real solution is to make Apple allow this App on their store.

Thank you for all the people who signed up for testing. It is encouraging!

I try to send you a version as quickly as I can but few people forgot to signed up their device(s) (go to testflight from your iOS device not from your PC/Mac.)

If you haven’t (and have an iOS device) you can sign up at: http://bit.ly/g4FNZX

Perhaps emailing Apple will also help. I am not sure what would be the best email address for that. If anyone has an idea, please post it here.

If anyone wants to improve my code then start from here:
https://github.com/udibr/bitcoinApp
and please let me know (or make a pull request)

Donation will also help:
1JsHXZRoqoPkwpZajy1VmnSmmvxqy1eux2
Programing, testing and distribution the test version takes its time and in addition, some of the tests I run consume the usual 0.01 fee, not to mention the 0.5 bitcoin that Apple took and never returned.

I've sent this email to steve@apple.com (lets see if I get a reply):

I think Apple is missing:
I was rejected because the App involves "intermediate currency" however, bitcoin,  is the first true virtual peer-to-peer currency, which unlike all other currencies is not backed by a country or by a central server, but by the bitcoin community (http://bitcoin.org)
This site http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/ has some interesting statistics: In last 24h there were 3.6K exchanges involving 400K bitcoins, the current exchange rate is $3.67=1 bitcoin and according to this the market cap is $22.8M

I am involved with technology before the days of Apple II and I can tell you that this is the real-deal, and just ignoring bitcoin is a mistake.
As far as I know, you cant buy with bitcoins anything in Apple's so it cant be used to by pass your in-app purchase mechanism.
I would even suggest you will add bitcoin to one of the currencies in which people can buy on your stores.

Please reconsider, Udi

Its not clear it will be allowed on Android. Last week google removed all tethering Apps from Android markets.

This is the content of my last email to Apple (you are welcomed to send them your own):
====================================8<========================================
I've received from you a phone call to say the App was rejected.
In the phone call the Apple representative said the App can not be approved because it handles intermediate currency which is not allowed by the "App Store Review Guidelines"
I've went to your site http://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/approval/guidelines.html
And tried to find this clause.
The only relevant section I found was "Purchasing and currencies" but it gave no reference to an "intermediate currency".
Can you please send me the link to the correct reference.
This goes back to my question from the email below as to what is the difference between this App and others in which a form of currency is handled (as far as I know, in the Venmo App the amount of money you have is not "real" dollars, while PayPal acts more like a regular bank.)

Please note that to the best of my knowledge there is no relation between bitcoins and any feature of iPhone or any other Apple product.
The only possible connection is that some people will buy Apple servers for their superior support for OpenCL in order to use it to generate bitcoins (but this is completely outside the scope of this App.)

Thank you very much, and please send me my 0.5 BitCoin back.
You can also use the following address:

1JsHXZRoqoPkwpZajy1VmnSmmvxqy1eux2

Following Apple response I've uploaded the entire updated source for the App at https://github.com/udibr/bitcoinApp
Please send me updates using github pull request.

Thanks, Udi

there is no need to jailbreak - I can add up to 100 people on the "beta" program
and other developers can do the same

I've posted this to Apple:
"As part of your testing, you have transfered 0.5 bitcoin from the server I supplied you to your account. Current value in USD is about 1.5 please send the 0.5 bitcoin back to the server's address. Its either bitcoins dont have value and in this case the App should be approved or they do have value and in this case send me the half bitcoin back.

I would like to get from you some details on in what way this App is different from Venmo, Paypal, Square, among others."

App rejected by Apple see http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5550.msg107980#msg107980

I was called by a person from Apple: App was rejected by Apple because "...it involves intermediate currency..."
I've asked why Apps such as PayPal and Venmo are accepted and he replied that he "does not have time to elaborate"
I then asked if they allow just a console to a remote node (not located on iPhone) and he said that this will also be an App that involves intermediate currency and there for will not be allowed...