Android Bitcoin Client Bounty (1740 BTC pledged) - page 2.

yossarian

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Quote from: Andreas Schildbach on July 08, 2011, 12:51:20 PM

Quote from: haydent on July 08, 2011, 01:10:41 AM

Bitcoin Android Released!

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26684.msg334880#msg334880

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Could anyone post a link in this original Android thread to send folks over to this thread?

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1812.120

Being eligible for the bounty would obviously be nice. Thanks!

Actually bitcoinandroid is not the first standalone wallet.

For example, just the day after BitcoinJ was released, I released the first version of Bitcoin Wallet

https://market.android.com/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet

Never got any piece of the bounty, though... )-:

I installed this app today and I'm quite convinced it deserves at least a major piece of the bounty promised. Whatever y'all imagined when you promised to pay some BTC: This is it!

giszmo

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WalletScrutiny.com

bitcoin wallet keeps eating wallet files and is not a functional wallet yet. unfortunately that is true for the other app as far as i read here on the forum. some guy got the same issue with persistent crashes at startup that i know too well from bitcoin wallet.

i hope that bitcoin wallet stays as honest as it was and sticks with testnet for the time being as i so far lost all my test coins i used to show it to my friends. if the trouble is due to bitcoinJ@android then bitcoin wallet was the first to receive a reward in my eyes but bitcoinJ deserves its share as well once the issues are solved.

Andreas Schildbach

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Quote from: haydent on July 08, 2011, 01:10:41 AM

Bitcoin Android Released!

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26684.msg334880#msg334880

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Could anyone post a link in this original Android thread to send folks over to this thread?

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1812.120

Being eligible for the bounty would obviously be nice. Thanks!

Actually bitcoinandroid is not the first standalone wallet.

For example, just the day after BitcoinJ was released, I released the first version of Bitcoin Wallet

https://market.android.com/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet

Never got any piece of the bounty, though... )-:

haydent

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Bitcoin Android Released!

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=26684.msg334880#msg334880

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Could anyone post a link in this original Android thread to send folks over to this thread?

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=1812.120

Being eligible for the bounty would obviously be nice. Thanks!

nhodges

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Quote from: giszmo on July 06, 2011, 02:04:14 PM

Quote from: Stephen Gornick on July 06, 2011, 06:15:05 AM

Now we have two:

Bitcoin-android (based on BitcoinJ)
- https://github.com/barmstrong/bitcoin-android

BitPay (based on InstaWallet)
- https://github.com/warpi/BitPay
- http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=24452.0

BitPay involves trusting InstaWallet.
You missed to mention RPC-clients like http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/

Is the above mentioned Bitcoin-android already stable? http://code.google.com/p/bitcoin-wallet/ workds on BitcoinJ, too.

Looks like it has some good feedback on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2732708

giszmo

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WalletScrutiny.com

Quote from: Stephen Gornick on July 06, 2011, 06:15:05 AM

Now we have two:

Bitcoin-android (based on BitcoinJ)
- https://github.com/barmstrong/bitcoin-android

BitPay (based on InstaWallet)
- https://github.com/warpi/BitPay
- http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=24452.0

BitPay involves trusting InstaWallet.
You missed to mention RPC-clients like http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/

Is the above mentioned Bitcoin-android already stable? http://code.google.com/p/bitcoin-wallet/ workds on BitcoinJ, too.

Stephen Gornick

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Quote from: Sjalq on June 23, 2011, 06:24:05 PM

Any news on how this has been going?

Now we have two:

Bitcoin-android (based on BitcoinJ)
- https://github.com/barmstrong/bitcoin-android

BitPay (based on InstaWallet)
- https://github.com/warpi/BitPay
- http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=24452.0

nhodges

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Is there a spec list to work against? Or just has to work on Android solely, ie no cloud/remote?

Sjalq

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Any news on how this has been going?

giszmo

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WalletScrutiny.com

oh i wish i had seen this pledge earlier

is there any site that collects bounties with an escrow service? On the one hand I see how generous many BTC people are but on the other hand with a 2 or 3 man month effort one would like to be sure to get payed in case one provides the best solution.
Also I see BTC is just perfect for such a bounty service. I saw pledge site for open source development fail but I'm sure if the pledges were charged for real, things might have gone differently.

MoonShadow

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Quote from: Giulio Prisco on June 07, 2011, 11:18:37 AM

What is the status now?

Has anyone thought of embedding bitcoinj ( http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/ ) in a full Android Bitcoin client?

Of course generation does not seem to make much sense on devices with limited computing power.

The problem is that the standard way the Bitcoin does things overwhelms Android. Not enough memory or data storage, too much storage access.

Giulio Prisco

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What is the status now?

Has anyone thought of embedding bitcoinj ( http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/ ) in a full Android Bitcoin client?

Of course generation does not seem to make much sense on devices with limited computing power.

error

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One of the two 800BTC bounties was paid months ago. I have no idea of the status of the other, which is why I haven't moved forward on this.

sandos

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#SWGT CERTIK Audited

I believe some of this ransom was already payed?

Vandroiy

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This is awesome, bitcoinj appears to be on a good way to finish the job!

This might become the main Bitcoin client. Java is much more suited for this kind of thing anyways. (I'd prefer C# even more, but for some reason all the people prefer Oracle and its patent shit to Mono.)

Anyways, I have a problem now. So many people are working on this now, I don't know whom we should pay the bounty to when they finish!

Edit: I hope the 800-pledges don't chicken out now, just because it's about 8000 USD? I want to see those brave souls granting us android support credit! I can't wait to start paying random android users in BTC! Grin

sandos

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#SWGT CERTIK Audited

Getting closer: http://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/source/detail?r=89

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Quote from: Vandroiy on May 20, 2011, 12:46:27 PM

Can the 800 BTC pledgers please clear up which have been paid out? And how much there is to gain right now?

As to everyone else, please add to the bounty. I think this android client is really important. The open source mentality is nice and all, but we shouldn't rely on people working for free too much, especially now that time is of the essence. We're missing out on all those android fans who read about Bitcoin now, many would surely join if they had a full client.

Free software is for creating community. It does not mean zero pay.

Open source is for bug fixing.

Making it GPL / BSD will not hurt funding, and increased competition will reduce fears of big players in the end everybody makes more even if it isn't the whole pie.

scottk

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Just throwing it in there that if I ever get some time I'd love to take this on. I been wanting to dip my feet in the Android waters and I'm starting to get into this idea of Bitcoins.

MoonShadow

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Quote from: Vandroiy on May 20, 2011, 12:46:27 PM

Can the 800 BTC pledgers please clear up which have been paid out? And how much there is to gain right now?

Mine has not been paid out...

"By local transactions, I assume a minimum capability of a local wallet.dat, the ability to use bu.mp (or similar) to transfer addresses, and the ability to create transactions in the absence of working Internet access.

I pledge 50 under these conditions"

I'm going to add a new condition, the system needs to be working on my Samsung Intercept by July, or I'm cutting my pledge in half. This pledge has turned into a large chunk of what I have left.

error

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Agreed. It appears that half the bounty was already paid, which really dampened my enthusiasm for working on this.

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