Topic: [ANNOUNCE] BitCoinJ v0.1, a client-mode implementation in Java - page 2. (Read 19115 times)

Just a thank you for choosing Bitcoin for your 20% project. I hope Google sees the possibilities also.

There are several implementations of the network node code, but to my knowledge none implementing wallet handling. If anyone knows better, please let me know.

thanks Mike!

Are there any python clients out there that are fully functional though?

The code under the bouncycastle package is just a renamed version of the lightweight bouncy castle library, so no, I didn't implement all that myself. It's renamed to avoid conflicts on Android.

It's only the stuff under the com.google.bitcoin package that is new.

It's Bouncy Castle. If you want some crypto, and want it in Java...it's where I'd start.

Thank you [mike] for this! Great work!

I'm browsing the code right now... You implemented all the crypto stuff on your own?? Wow... is bitcoin choice of cryptographic functions so particular that you couldn't find no Java library for it? Anyway, all my respects to you, sir! All those numbers and binary operations make me dizzy just to look at....

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.61658

[mike], so you really work at Google?

There are presently at least 2 independent Python p2p implementations...

well.. there is no python implementation. there is only interface to wallet database. it would be nice to have python library for communitcation with p2p network. (although, I do not like python nor going to use it for this =))

This is supposed to be funny, right?

Thanks! This is great news. Next, we need a python implementation

Thanks, that clears it up for me.

He's not "take[n] something that's open source and put a copy right on it". Google held the copyright (as he developed it at Google) and instead of not releasing it, they chose to release it under an open source license. Most (all?) open source software will be copyrighted. I suppose [mike] could have released the client into the public domain, but I suspect Google would prefer some sort of license.

Is it? I don't understand how he can take something that's open source and put a copy right on it? I'm not a programmer so that might be the reason why. Also I'm very wary about some big company having anything to with the BitCoin clients.

I of course appreciate his effort I just don't fully understand what he is doing and what his motivations might be.

Inspiring to see you use your 20% discretion on this.

[mike] should let us know his bitcoin address so we can donate to him for spending his precious time on this.

Thanks [mike] (and Google) for using your 20% time on this project.  This is a great contribution to the Bitcoin community.

There have been a lot of questions on IRC about what, if anything, Google is doing with BitCoin. So let me clear this up.

Google staff have the ability to spend ~20% of their time on projects that interest them, as long as they are relevant or useful to the company. This policy exists to keep Google flexible and to let us explore lots of ideas at once without too much corporate overhead. I've chosen to use some of mine writing and releasing this library through the standard process we have for open sourcing our code. This means it's it has been checked by our lawyers for things like trademark/export compliance, the relevant people have approved its release and so on. This is why the code has our copyright at the top. Google benefits from and supports the open source community, and we're proud of that fact.

This is not "official" in that it does not reflect some vast corporate master plan, we are not about to start accepting BitCoins for AdWords, we have not just dropped 200GHash/sec into the network and we are not going to fork the block chain (to mention just a few of the theories I've seen floating around).

A few people have been confused by this and that's reasonable, because most companies don't give their staff as much freedom as Google does. For now, this is just me and my 20% time. I would like to see us scale up our involvement in future but there are no guarantees of that and you should think of me as just another open source contributor, who happens to be fortunate enough to get paid to work on BitCoin in (a fraction of) office hours.