Tah-dah! Enter DeVCoin, whose official GUI client is devcoin-qt
Are you on the list of recipients Unthinkingbit set up for donations?
DeVCoin doesn't even require you to have a separate address for receiving DeVCoin, it uses your normal donation address so you can be receiving DeVCoin with which to eventually maybe motivate people (maybe mostly after exchanges have been set up so they can cash it in if they don't actually "believe" in it themselves).
I am in this list. However, doesn't DeVCoin involve an all-new block chain? I don't think it is practical to expect everyone to switch to a new chain just to pay the developers
To have done it in a really secure way, multiple developers have to review and compile this on their own, and then publish the hashes. Automatic compiled binaries wouldn't bring that much, because you could just commit some "send all coins to me" code and everyone pulling the code would still have the same hash.
You get it wrong. The problem here is not that
I am distrusted (or the source code). Everyone can audit my code on github and see the history of every change (also, if I wanted to steal your money I'd be writing windows rootkits instead of trying to help a fledgling distributed currency)
The problem is that build environments might have viruses, trojans, and the .exe might be infected during upload/download. You can audit source not executables. Hence you need multiple people to buid it and arrive at the same answer.
On a side note, I for one, would like to compile it using VS. As far as I have tested, your code does not compile out of the box using VS. It does using the mingw, which is really great. But to be honest, compiling and debugging is way to slow using mingw.
Well then, fix it to build in VS (and contribute back the build scripts + instructions). I am not against that I just don't use it myself. I don't even use windows on most days, and if it is in a VM to test whether it still builds.
