Topic: Armory Crowdfunding Finished! [UPDATE - *BETA*] - page 2. (Read 25498 times)

The original price list was $10 for the seminar.  $25 for a USB key, $50 for Tshirt, $100 for all of the above + Casascius coin, $300 for used laptop, and $500 for all the above.  I will still honor those, at least until I run out of stuff...

Glad to see people still interested!

Btw, I'm getting close to a preliminary RAM-reduction release for Linux (and Windows will get implemented as people help test Linux).  I'll post on the main thread when I'm ready for people to help me test -- hopefully Friday!  And it will need quite a bit of testing!

@etotheipi Great to heard about this! How much BTC should I donated for an Encryption Seminar?

I sent some more coins to my offline wallet, and at the same time sent you a small donation

this is the kinda attitude that we all appreciate and what is so great about open source and Bitcoin.  i'm sure i speak for the community when i say thank you for all the great features and quick fixes you're applying to Armory.

with people like you how can Bitcoin fail?

For now, if folks still want to donate to my 1ArmoryXcf address, I will offer the same rewards.  I have extras of each reward, so it's not a problem to continue providing them.  I can even continue updating this thread, but I already did all the part-time stuff at work, so it won't change that.  Many here donate just because they know it will help me continue to do this work, so don't let me stop you from that

I guess the big difference is that I can no longer take credit-card donations... but this is the Bitcoin forums, after all!

Feel free to donate:  1ArmoryXcfq7TnCSuZa9fQjRYwJ4bkRKfv, then email me and I will send the appropriate rewards when I get them in.

On the topic of rewards: I am still waiting for shirts... it might be another week (hopefully not two).  Sorry!  I'll get them out ASAP!

Congratulations to etotheipi!  Too shame for missing the donation period...

I've updated the title and top-post with a "wrap-up" section.  Thanks again to everyone, and please contact me if you donated but did not receive an email regarding rewards.

What integration? And what is the charge for?

An Android armory client, that also has 2FA to interact? or

Android app that is just a 2FA client to produce a code that is then entered into an armory client on windows/a.n.other client to unlock wallet/functions?

in the last case just use google authenticator as a separate android app that can be used to 2FA for armory. It can have multiple counters (I have one for bitcoinica for example, another for my SSH logins, armory would just be a scroll down in the list).

Use a standard OTP library compiled into armory, and produce a QR code for the device to set up the seed. It can be time or counter based. These are IETF standards based mechanisms:
HOTP: An HMAC-Based One-Time Password Algorithm
Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) algorithm

As a bonus, you also get iOS and Blackberry authenticators as well. (blackberry doesn't have QR code scan though)

code is at https://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/ so you can clone and customise the UI yourself if you want an armory client - it has already been done several times as I think the Battle.net/StarWars KOTOR clients are basically reskinned authenticators. Or just add to the list of accounts in the standard authenticator, and leave it up to google to keep it updated so you don't have to fix the issues resulting (and there have been a few recently including Force closing when opening the app- it was updated the same day, but was still an issue as it had been updated for several new devices that had recently been launched.)

The only real cost should be that of getting it into the Google Android market, though you can just make the APK available to download from your armory client site. You won't get the auto-update features of the market. (There are a couple of other markets as well such as amazon app market and appbrain)

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Bitcoin can even be used to prove that there are limits to vanity?

Yessir!  I got a little crazy with vanitygen and succeeded.  It should've taken about 70 days of computation time but I got lucky and found it in about a week...  (notice no digits either, only uppercase letters).

Unfortunately, it's so cool that people don't even recognize it as a Bitcoin address  

Interesting address, is it really all in uppercase?

Of course!  But for long-term planning purposes, I really needed to gague the level financial support I would get up front, so I know how many hours to reduce at my real job.  The decision I make will stick for at least 9 months, so I have to be sure I'm ready to do it!

I will update the top post with information, shortly.  And I will continue collecting donations through my regular two donation addresses:  

1QBDLYTDFHHZAABYSKGKPWKLSXZWCCJQBX
1ArmoryXcfq7TnCSuZa9fQjRYwJ4bkRKfv


I might even start something very similar on my webpage:  a mini-store of over-priced items that will double as donation/support and also getting something useful.  I'll have to look into the financials of providing shirts & USB keys on-demand, but it might be doable in such a way that I get more benefit than effort spent doing it.  Plus who wouldn't want one of those TShirts!?!   I will send out an email soon asking donors for information, and verify that rewards are requested.  There were a lot of folks who explicitly declined rewards...



LOL.  Nice interpretation.  I'll check with her about adding that as a feature

I can't find the one-week vacation with the g/f feature anywhere in there. I checked all the menus and options, too. Does the "there was" imply this feature was taken out? How much of a bounty is needed to add it back in? 

Can't see why donations cannot carry on, in bitcoins

When I get more free time myself I will try to promote it a bit.

It looks like it's just about over.  Obviously, I would've liked to see more donations (mainly because I really love this project and would love to work on it full-time if I could!).  But it was far from a failure.  There's quite a bit I can do with the money that was raised, and I'm already plenty psyched about taking some time off to get lost in coding for 10 hour chunks of time (while my g/f is at work ).  Speaking of work, I'm at my real job, right now, but I'll post a more-detailed description of thoughts and plans tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks so much to all those who donated!  Seriously, even if I didn't make the goal, I got so much extraordinarily positive feedback, and so many people donating large sums that I really feel like my work is appreciated and will continue to make an impact!

-Alan

its really too bad more ppl don't step up and donate.  for all the things we're getting as a community we need you to spend more time developing this product.  given how much you've already added just this last month i could only imagine how much better the product would be if you were working on it full time.

Good work so far!

Armory is free, open-source software.  My only monetization plans are to charge a few dollars for the Android app for two-factor authentication, because I'm getting external help with it, and that's not free.  All other aspects of Armory are completely free, up to an including everything mentioned on the RocketHub page (which is everything including all multi-sig capability, offline wallets, multi-OS support, etc).  

I've already added an elliptic curve calculator, Bitcoin-address message-signing interface and Satoshi wallet migration tool, since starting this push one month ago!  (and there was even a one-week vacation with the g/f in there, too!)

Just to be absolutely clear. It's free, right?