[Bitcoin-development] Introducing BitcoinKit.framework

2013-07-15 Thread Wendell
and this Bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=256583.msg2733523 A sample GUI app is also included: http://imgur.com/FzqA00X Cheers everyone! -Wendell signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Introducing BitcoinKit.framework

2013-07-15 Thread Wendell
Hi Mike, You are absolutely right about the synchronize time, it's one of our main frustration points right now and we clearly won't deliver the kind of user experience we want, without fixing this. Actually we were thinking of extending Jeff Garzik's picocoin as time permits, but the plan is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Introducing BitcoinKit.framework

2013-07-16 Thread Wendell
head around it. I'm super interested in all of these possibilities (including micro-stripped-VMs and transpilation), but would simply like to encourage the proliferation of _options_ whenever possible. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Mike Hearn wrote

[Bitcoin-development] SPV bitcoind? (was: Introducing BitcoinKit.framework)

2013-07-16 Thread Wendell
in SPV options seems like the right way to go. Time-permitting, I would really appreciate feedback from knowledgable parties about the possible approaches to an SPV bitcoind. We at Hive ideally want to see something that could one be merge into master, rather than a fork. -wendell grabhive.com

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV bitcoind? (was: Introducing BitcoinKit.framework)

2013-07-17 Thread Wendell
Peter, This sounds like a _very_ good idea for a desktop client, and probably acceptable to users so long as we take available disk space into consideration, and only ever use a fraction of it. Will you implement this? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive On Jul 17, 2013, at 12:58

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV bitcoind? (was: Introducing BitcoinKit.framework)

2013-07-18 Thread Wendell
Heh, will do. If you have less confidence in your programming skills perhaps its best if you write documentation and we bring in someone else to do the heavy lifting? Maybe Eric Lombrozo would be interested in this, for example... -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive On Jul 18, 2013

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BitMail - p2p Email 0.1. beta

2013-07-30 Thread Wendell
Can you explain this process for those of us not too familiar with TPM chips? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: As a testament to the seriousness with which Pond takes forward security, it can use the NVRAM in a TPM

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Tor and Bitcoin

2013-07-30 Thread Wendell
Thank you Peter. Does this advice apply equally to both full and SPV nodes? At this point I'm merely curious, since we don't have the option to run bitcoinj over Tor right now anyway. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Jul 30, 2013, at 8:30 PM, Peter Todd wrote

[Bitcoin-development] Safe auto-updating

2013-08-05 Thread Wendell
with the idea of placing one server behind a Tor hidden service, whose only function is to output a checksum of the update package. The theory is that if it is well-secured, it will at least be immune to tampering at the physical hosting level. Any thoughts or advice about any of this? -wendell

[Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
vehicle? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Idea for new payment protocol PKI

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 1:43 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: This is just me making notes for myself, I'm not seriously suggesting this be implemented any time soon. Mozilla Persona is an infrastructure for web based single sign on. It works

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
within the context of the more limited API, this certainly seems like an interesting, user-friendly way to distribute a Bitcoin wallet! -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: Oh, I forgot to make it clear - Chrome apps

Re: [Bitcoin-development] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
No, it's not -- but that's certainly very cool to see Jeff. How is BitPay going to put this to use? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote: Certainly. BitPay is working on such a wallet: https://github.com/jgarzik/wally

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BitMail.sf.net - encrypted p2p email

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
Jesus, please stop this. :( -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 9, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Randolph D. wrote: anyone tested the secure encrypted p2p email: http://bitmail.sf.net SVN here: svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/spot-on/code/ spot-on-code http

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Version 0.9 goals

2013-08-15 Thread Wendell
Bitcoin Store will also be game to hit the ground running. I'll ask them. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Aug 15, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: Pieter, Matt and I also agreed that for maximum impact we should really try to ship payment protocol support

[Bitcoin-development] Social network integration (brainstorm)

2013-09-05 Thread Wendell
to other such ideas in case anyone else wants to discuss it. Our motivation is making Bitcoin easier to use, and we suspect that even imperfect social network support will move us closer to that goal. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 Re-orienting Bitcoin around people

Re: [Bitcoin-development] An app store and non-network transaction fees

2013-09-05 Thread Wendell
Hey Mike! On Sep 5, 2013, at 10:26 AM, Mike Hearn wrote: It might be simpler to not think of it as an app store, but rather see it as a set of affiliate schemes. To get placed into the apps section you can say that the business must have an affiliate scheme in place (i.e. open to more than

[Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-06 Thread Wendell
altering our system to store it. Any thoughts about this? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -- Learn the latest--Visual

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-09 Thread Wendell
OK, I was under the impression that this was mostly developed for merchants. I've seen some discussion here that seemed to suggest it requiring some non-trivial (for an end user) steps like getting a CA-signed certificate. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Sep 7

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-16 Thread Wendell
any servers at all (serverless keyserver, anyone?), but I am not quite sure how. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Sep 7, 2013, at 12:47 AM, Eric Lombrozo wrote: Why not just use the transaction hash itself for the lookup? Also, presumably you'd want to encrypt

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-17 Thread Wendell
a transaction beyond the scope of Bitcoin itself (a name, perhaps a small photo, etc) in order to increase usability. This will be my last post here on the topic except to reply in case anyone else contributes. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:05

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Simple contacts exchange (was: Social network integration (brainstorm))

2013-09-17 Thread Wendell
not sure that I understand _why_ signed certificates are even required. Isn't that likely be an obstacle to adoption for use cases like this? -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 On Sep 17, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: You can prove ownership of a private key

[Bitcoin-development] Introducing Hive, a new wallet for Mac OS X

2013-09-28 Thread Wendell
to everyone at Bitcoin Europe 2013 for the feedback and moral support! -wendell PS- If you're interested in including an app for your Bitcoin-supporting service in Hive, please be in touch! grabhive.com | twitter.com/grabhive | gpg: 6C0C9411 signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Extending the Payment Protocol with vCards

2013-11-12 Thread Wendell
Hi Mike, It seems to me there is some confusion about this. Taylor's talking about a standard way to pass around data; the end user would never be exposed to something like a vCard. That vCard's existence itself would in fact be very temporary. -wendell grabhive.com | twitter.com/hivewallet

Re: [Bitcoin-development] DarkWallet Best Practices

2013-12-19 Thread Wendell
Amazingly thorough, Peter. Thanks so much! -wendell hivewallet.com | twitter.com/hivewallet | pgp: B7179FA88C498718 On Dec 19, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Peter Todd wrote: Here's my draft. I don't claim this to be official, but I think this should represent the consensus we've come

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Happy new year!

2014-01-01 Thread Wendell
Same here. I feel incredibly lucky to know some of you, and to be able to contribute in some small way to what this is ultimately becoming. It's been an amazing ride, and I'm pretty sure that 2014 is going to totally blow our minds. -wendell hivewallet.com | twitter.com/hivewallet | pgp