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

2013-08-12 Thread Chris Double
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Mike Hearn m...@plan99.net wrote: Oh, I forgot to make it clear - Chrome apps/extensions can make raw TCP socket connections: http://blog.chromium.org/2012/11/introducing-tcp-listen-new-api-for.html There's a Raw Sockets proposal at the W3C that provides

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

2013-08-09 Thread Mike Hearn
Oh, I forgot to make it clear - Chrome apps/extensions can make raw TCP socket connections: http://blog.chromium.org/2012/11/introducing-tcp-listen-new-api-for.html You would do it as a packaged app: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html because then they're a lot more similar to

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

2013-08-09 Thread Wendell
Packaged app pages always load locally. This allows apps to be less dependent on the network. Once a user installs an app, they have full control over the app's lifecycle. Apps open and close quickly, and the system can shut apps down at any time to improve performance. Users can fully

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] SPV client in pure JavaScript?

2013-08-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Wendell w...@grabhive.com wrote: No, it's not -- but that's certainly very cool to see Jeff. How is BitPay going to put this to use? Well, wally is just a demo application, a command line client to prove a technology. The main development is in places like