Your software is the best and safest by far without any real competition. You are the main expert. When Bitcoin becomes sufficiently mainstream you will be approached for:
1) Creating customizations (either open source or proprietary)
2) Performing other services (such as coaching and setting up the software)
3) You will likely be offered rather lucrative contracts by business wishing to enter this market (the equivalent of a buy out if Armory was proprietary)
Of course I hope you will not take option 3 and will have time to keep working on Armory (out of my own interest)
. But if you monetize on this it is truly deserved as this is a magnificent piece of work. Thanks!
+10000000
Thank you for your incredible work, Alan
Thanks so much guys. I really appreciate the encouragement. It's awesome to see so many people so excited about my work. I am working on some ideas to generate some revenue, and I think I can do so without harming the user experience (hopefully enhance it!). I'll discuss that more later. Just know that I'm planning to keep Armory 100% free. Or at least 98% of it -- I might try to develop some kind super-advanced features, or maybe a corporate add-on that could be sold. But for everyone else, I want there to be no reason not to use Armory. Instead, find ways to leverage a wide userbase. And if Armory makes an impact in the Bitcoin world, it will help me out by fattening my offline wallet
(both in donations and price).
Finally figured out the code signing problem. Check out this bling!
Now that looks sweet! Congrats! :-)
You do a great job with Armory. A very much needed job too, we desperately need more independent Bitcoinclients!
My random thoughts:
Think about approaching the Bitcoin Foundation. You are a lead core developer yourself, not? ;-)
Seriously, I am sure that the satoshi-client devteam very much appreciates and encourages alternative clients too.
I have no insight in their books, but I guess they have pretty large wallets.. with as many corporate and private members they have.
How about selling an Armory-Offline-Wallet-Hardware?
It could/should be a different approach to the small keychain-hardware wallets currently in the making. Targeted at companies (too). With tight integration in Armory, obviously. Hell, a whole Banking/Accounting/Security/Authorization-Ecosystem for companies might evolve around Armory! The marked right now isn't huge, but you would be the first (and only?) one ready when it's starting.
You see I follow the other thread about secure Armory offline wallets closely ;-)
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