Topic: BitWasp - Free Open-source PHP Bitcoin Marketplace - page 2. (Read 7760 times)

Sheep marketplace was written using the Nette framework, Bitwasp uses CodeIgniter.

You really believe Sheep got hacked? The BTC was stolen by the owner.

Looks amazing, I'm definitely going to use this to run a BTC Marketplace.

Still doing great guys keep up the good work. If you need any help let me know.

Yeah we emailed them to see if they'd be interested, it's nice to have an article that doesn't come with a second half about the emerging dark web..


We have about 25BTC on reserve for when it comes to bounties! We've raised over 34 to date, and we've paid someone 2.71 BTC recently for reporting a faulty RNG in a library we used to generate ECDSA keys, but otherwise we're holding on until we come to a proper release, before offering more, otherwise it'd be crazy.

But definitely, even advertising the bounty will bring in more people to test it, find other bugs, offer suggestions.. It's paid advertising of the best kind

Honestly, and this isn't because I'm just a fan of free bitcoins - some kind of giveaway or bounty usually attracts a lot of users. If you look at the view count for threads in this board that are prefixed with [BOUNTY], you'll notice it's often 10 or 20 times as high as the rest of the threads.

I guess a sig referral scheme would be the easiest to administrate, and you get free advertising from it. My only advice would be to make sure you'll definitely have the funds to pay out if it becomes popular; people get antsy if they're made to wait for payments!

edit also, it's great to see someone still using PHP - every day I feel like my skills are becoming more and more obsolete...

nice to see CoinDesk spotted you eventually... 

A plugin system or at least modular programme structure would be pretty good.

It looks like a very useful application to setup your own Bitcoin eBay, or something similar. I hope it is not used for illegal purposes.

Donated. Good luck!

Very cool, I especially like the auto-scrubbing of EXIF data. Very smart.

I'm going to PM you, with a proposition

Not yet alpha. I'll be finalizing a list of features & timeline for the alpha in the next few days!

What's the status here? Alpha or Beta foreseable?

Thanks! I recoded it recently so it became much cleaner than the previous attempt.

I can appreciate most of the members here could find their own solution, instead of relying on something which literally does everything for them. I guess I need to try encourage new people to start looking at bitcoin. I know some people who provide merchant services, where they're giving a big chunk of their profit to a payment processor. That might be a nice way to entice people to consider BTC.

I guess in the early days of the web people would have tried to get set up on Ebay before realizing they might be better doing things for themselves. At least I'll be ready for when that happens!

I think a site to explain everything to non-techies would be a good call. Just explain how BTC can make sense for businesses, never mind going into details about RSA/GPG, etc. I wouldnt be ready, indeed. I'm still ironing out some of the main features so it'd be best to wait until we know what we're offering!

I'm in Ireland unfortunately!

I have spent that past few hours looking through the code of bitwasp.
Unfortunately for me, the code is too advanced for me to fully understand, but it is BLOODY nicely done!! seems very elegant, organised and pretty to look at (from my geeky side  ). Someone has put a lot if time, thought, effort and love into this!
This kind of quality can only help bitcoin, and i love the spirit being in-keeping with bitcoin and that the code is totally free to do with as "we" please.

@fbueller
from what i have been seeing, there is not really a big merchant demand, or more to the point, interest for bitcoin only merchant services just yet, but i think i share your views that there should be and i truly believe there will be! This will be generated with projects like yours (and hopefully my kind of related project), as people pick up on them, and more merchants/people realise there is much {legal} money to be made.

While all/most members here are big fans and supporters of bitcoin, i don't think there are many "merchants" amongst us, which may explain why "Casual posting on forums hasn't really had it take off", there basically is not many of us around yet.

a user friendly website aimed at non techies, explaining what you "site/system in a box" can do, although this may be something you feel you are not ready for yet.

I will have a think on ideas to help you "root out the interest", and post back (or on your forum) if i come up with any killer ideas for you.

Best Regards
Ford


PS would you guys or girls be based anywhere near the UK (England)? i would love to mean up and talk boring bitcoin/business ideas and php code 

I have registered on your forum and am looking forward to keeping an eye on your code to see if there is anything i could use for what im working on (i wont be treading on your toes though!)

Publishing a bot for it? (=> lots of trades ?)

Hey folks, I'm wondering what might be the best way to draw attention to our project? Casual posting on forums hasn't really had it take off. I think it has the capacity to go viral, given enough interest. I really think the interest is there, it's just rooting it out.

Really the success of this project relies on people finding out about it. We've been thinking offering bounties for bugs would draw in some developers and testers. These people are either interested in technology or bitcoins already. At a more suitable stage, I think trying to try introduce businesses to the project might be a successful route.

So, what would you suggest for promoting a project like this? What sort of features would you need to see before you'd consider setting up a site like this?

Wow I'm delighted with the responses! As I said, we have forums to chat about the project here: http://bitwasp.tk

Feature list is here: http://bitwasp.tk/index.php?topic=4.0

@KenKaniff : I think you understand our intentions perfectly. So far (similar to bitcoin) we've mainly only attracted people who want to set up a marketplace for illegitimate purposes, but I feel if I had the guidance of the community (instead of people asking for specific features that would suit them..) it would go in a way better direction, and really really benefit from it. Please check out the test site, and lemme know if you have any questions about features. Pretty much everything worth mentioning is up here: http://bitwasp.tk/index.php?topic=4.0

@Ford, you are free to copy whatever you want from our code. The more derivatives we have, honestly, the better. It can't just be BitWasp, there needs to be a variety of options. Competition will determine who stands out, and will motivate people to keep on top of work.