Topic: Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics - page 161. (Read 482345 times)
December 23, 2011, 09:20:49 PM
Where is a scrambler on your roadmap? That is a feature for which I would likely pay (though not 1%), and its network vortex effect would be very beneficial for you (and your customers).
December 23, 2011, 08:56:59 PM
I really don't see this as that big of an issue. There are free wallet services available. This wallet has great features. If the features are not worth the price to you, use a different service. That's why competition is good, it gives you the choice of features and prices you are comfortable with. I would pay a monthly fee for no ads. And I do like the tiered/capped structure offered.
December 23, 2011, 08:21:14 PM
I think that a good idea is to make a dynamic fee based on the actual value of bitcoin and the cost of your service.
Than you should ask the fee only for big transaction.
Example:
If someone will transfer 1000 usd ( in bitcoin ), than you can ask 0.xxx% fee in bitcoin.
You have always to base the fee on the usd value of bitcoin.
This will leave open all the possibilities to test the service from common users / small players.
EDIT:
Anyway, as NothinG said I still prefer a totally free service with ads
Than you should ask the fee only for big transaction.
Example:
If someone will transfer 1000 usd ( in bitcoin ), than you can ask 0.xxx% fee in bitcoin.
You have always to base the fee on the usd value of bitcoin.
This will leave open all the possibilities to test the service from common users / small players.
EDIT:
Anyway, as NothinG said I still prefer a totally free service with ads
December 23, 2011, 08:20:45 PM
I just don't think you should want to do ANYTHING to suppress testing and growth at this early stage of your project. What you are essentially saying is "please do not test transactions unless you are sending real money" and so I have not.
The site has nearly 1000 wallets now and barring one severe bug there having been few issues reported. I'm not saying it doesn't need more testing but the site is production ready now.
Growth is only growth if it's sustainable. It's no good attracting users who are expecting the site to be free for ever if at some point that has to change. Growth will be achieved by improving the software and adding better features, i'm confident in a couple of months time the site will blow every other wallet service out the water.
Having said that if anyone has suggestions on how the site can be monotonized without fees than i gladly take them on board.
December 23, 2011, 08:11:44 PM
I just don't think you should want to do ANYTHING to suppress testing and growth at this early stage of your project. What you are essentially saying is "please do not test transactions unless you are sending real money" and so I have not.
The site has nearly 1000 wallets now and barring one severe bug there having been few issues reported. I'm not saying it doesn't need more testing but the site is production ready now.
Growth is only growth if it's sustainable. It's no good attracting users who are expecting the site to be free for ever if at some point that has to change. Growth will be achieved by improving the software and adding better features, i'm confident in a couple of months time the site will blow every other wallet service out the water.
Having said that if anyone has suggestions on how the site can be monotonized without fees than i gladly take them on board.
December 23, 2011, 06:17:56 PM
I just don't think you should want to do ANYTHING to suppress testing and growth at this early stage of your project. What you are essentially saying is "please do not test transactions unless you are sending real money" and so I have not.
December 23, 2011, 04:14:16 PM
Ok how about this. 0-5 transactions per month is free. 5-50 transactions per month is 1% or 0.01 BTC. +50 transactions per month is free.
Would that suit people better? Completely free for low volume users and capped at somewhere around $1.50 / month for power users.
To do this i would have to include a wallet identifier in calls to /pushtx
Sorry netrin i must have missed your pm
Would that suit people better? Completely free for low volume users and capped at somewhere around $1.50 / month for power users.
To do this i would have to include a wallet identifier in calls to /pushtx
Sorry netrin i must have missed your pm
December 23, 2011, 01:16:58 PM
I'll chip in my opinion too. I just looked around the wallet app again and didn't see the fee so maybe you have already made some change there. When I first looked at this wallet I was fascinated and really wanted to explore it. But when you added the fee I removed my few coins and decided not to go this route.
I know it's not fair. You should be able to make money to fund and even profit from the service. But I'm poor, cheap and mostly I'm just so accustomed to an internet where amazing things are free. I truly believe if you start with a fee early on, and for small transactions, it will hamper growth and acceptance. You need to grow the market, earn trust and then you are in a great position to cash in using creative value added services, or even just adverts.
I think you've done an amazing job here and I know that it's a lot of work. Every few days I see new features here and extra effort to explain and support the Bitcoin idea. You've taken wallets further in a month than the official client did in the 8 months I've used it. I hope there is a way to make it viable with basic use remaining free.
I know it's not fair. You should be able to make money to fund and even profit from the service. But I'm poor, cheap and mostly I'm just so accustomed to an internet where amazing things are free. I truly believe if you start with a fee early on, and for small transactions, it will hamper growth and acceptance. You need to grow the market, earn trust and then you are in a great position to cash in using creative value added services, or even just adverts.
I think you've done an amazing job here and I know that it's a lot of work. Every few days I see new features here and extra effort to explain and support the Bitcoin idea. You've taken wallets further in a month than the official client did in the 8 months I've used it. I hope there is a way to make it viable with basic use remaining free.
December 23, 2011, 12:52:10 PM
How about a monthly/yearly fee option instead so heavy users save some money?
December 23, 2011, 12:38:16 PM
yep, I really hope that you find a better way to get some money.
I think that even some banners are better than this fee.
I think that even some banners are better than this fee.
December 23, 2011, 12:21:34 PM
Puik, are you still charging a transaction fee? I don't see mention of it on your site. I didn't receive an answer by PM several weeks ago, so I'll address this publicly. I believe it is too early for you to impose a transaction fee. Your efforts and service are certainly worth paying for, however, I have been playing and testing your site out of pure fascination and for your benefit. I can not justify experimenting if I have to pay you even one penny for the privilege. Donations are different. For your own financial interest, I hope you will reconsider the transaction fee at this time.
December 23, 2011, 10:45:54 AM
- Email & skype notifications + skype two-factor authentication
December 23, 2011, 08:47:54 AM
Some interface improvements.
You can now choose where change is returned and what address to take our fee from (Makes it easier to consume the entire balance of one address without calculating percentages).
you can also now archive addresses to hide them from the main view:
After New Year my TODO list is:
You can now choose where change is returned and what address to take our fee from (Makes it easier to consume the entire balance of one address without calculating percentages).
you can also now archive addresses to hide them from the main view:
After New Year my TODO list is:
- Finish Wallet.dat import / export
- Fix bug julz reported (double spends can show in some circumstances)
- Email & skype notifications + skype two-factor authentication
- Native Android & iPhone apps
- Improve unconfirmed transactions page/li]
December 22, 2011, 07:04:18 AM
Glad to see you got it working. This should now be fixed anyway.
yep. works either way now - thanks.
Another issue I had was on a friends android phone.
On the 'Send Money' page - the 'Review Transaction' and 'Reset Form' buttons were simply nowhere to be seen.
I don't have access to that phone now - but I'll try to take another look some time.
December 22, 2011, 06:58:14 AM
Ok here is the error:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://blockchain.info/latestblock. Origin https://www.blockchain.info is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://blockchain.info/multiaddr. Origin https://www.blockchain.info is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
It turns out it's because I accidentally accessed it using https://www.blockchain.info but I usually use https://blockchain.info
When I drop the 'www' it works ok again.
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://blockchain.info/latestblock. Origin https://www.blockchain.info is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://blockchain.info/multiaddr. Origin https://www.blockchain.info is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
It turns out it's because I accidentally accessed it using https://www.blockchain.info but I usually use https://blockchain.info
When I drop the 'www' it works ok again.
Glad to see you got it working. This should now be fixed anyway.
December 22, 2011, 06:47:47 AM
Ok here is the error:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://blockchain.info/latestblock. Origin https://www.blockchain.info is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://blockchain.info/multiaddr. Origin https://www.blockchain.info is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
It turns out it's because I accidentally accessed it using https://www.blockchain.info but I usually use https://blockchain.info
When I drop the 'www' it works ok again.
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://blockchain.info/latestblock. Origin https://www.blockchain.info is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://blockchain.info/multiaddr. Origin https://www.blockchain.info is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.
It turns out it's because I accidentally accessed it using https://www.blockchain.info but I usually use https://blockchain.info
When I drop the 'www' it works ok again.
December 22, 2011, 06:41:11 AM
Hmm.. this is a bit scary
"Error getting wallet balance from server"
And it's now showing 0BTC (there was a small amount in there last time I looked)
On the Paper wallet.. I see the keys.. but all showing 0BTC
When I look up those addresses externally (blockexplorer.com or even the blockchain.info page) they still have a balance though.
I guess the wallet has just temporarily lost it's access to the blockchain or something?
"Error getting wallet balance from server"
And it's now showing 0BTC (there was a small amount in there last time I looked)
On the Paper wallet.. I see the keys.. but all showing 0BTC
When I look up those addresses externally (blockexplorer.com or even the blockchain.info page) they still have a balance though.
I guess the wallet has just temporarily lost it's access to the blockchain or something?
this is an error from the api call /multiaddr
In order to debug this can you try again with your javascript error console open and either email me the output ([email protected]) or post it here.
Safari = Develop->Show Error Console
Firefox = Tools->Web Developer->Error Console
Chrome = View->Developer->Javascript Console
December 22, 2011, 06:21:20 AM
Hmm.. this is a bit scary
"Error getting wallet balance from server"
And it's now showing 0BTC (there was a small amount in there last time I looked)
On the Paper wallet.. I see the keys.. but all showing 0BTC
When I look up those addresses externally (blockexplorer.com or even the blockchain.info page) they still have a balance though.
I guess the wallet has just temporarily lost it's access to the blockchain or something?
"Error getting wallet balance from server"
And it's now showing 0BTC (there was a small amount in there last time I looked)
On the Paper wallet.. I see the keys.. but all showing 0BTC
When I look up those addresses externally (blockexplorer.com or even the blockchain.info page) they still have a balance though.
I guess the wallet has just temporarily lost it's access to the blockchain or something?
December 20, 2011, 12:39:52 AM
Really love the offline mode!
December 19, 2011, 05:41:00 PM
minor point on the popup.. it might be nice if the popup could be 'pinned'.. at the moment it only works as a mouse hover-over, so you can't copy/drag the QR code or get the path to the image.
I've made the QR Code popup in a modal instead, so it should now work on android and over devices with no mouseover.
The firstbits are an ideal (theoretically) unambiguous shortener... provided the address has been seen by the network. For public addresses not yet publicly seen by the network, perhaps Puik could add a temporary otherwise invalid code. The first 8 characters of an address are typically unambiguous (sans vanity codes), something like 1eDj5Efw000 (zero zero zero) might produce a collision list page?
Rather than a separate collision page I could make the to address field drop down with an auto complete list, a plugin like this http://www.devbridge.com/projects/autocomplete/jquery/ should work.
Not that I want to give anybody any ideas, but can't people easily remove the 1% fee from the output of a transaction, given the way the transaction is constructed and signed on the client side? Like use a greasemonkey script or something that does it automatically? Are you just hoping that people won't do that, or is actually not possible somehow?
Yes only one line of code needs to be commented out to remove transactions fees:
cool site! bookmarked.
2 requests though for http://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
* on the map you show flags but not in the list. wouldn't it make sense the other way round? in the map the symbol could rather represent the order of magnitude of the transaction than the country which is clear by the location.
* please make the sound opt-in instead of opt-out. Took me 5 minutes to find the tab that was beeping.
2 requests though for http://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
* on the map you show flags but not in the list. wouldn't it make sense the other way round? in the map the symbol could rather represent the order of magnitude of the transaction than the country which is clear by the location.
* please make the sound opt-in instead of opt-out. Took me 5 minutes to find the tab that was beeping.
Point taken about the flags, I like the bleep on as default though (If nothing else it reminds you to close the page and stop sucking bandwidth
).New features
- Offline Mode
- QR Code Scanner (Requires flash)
I need to write a tutorial of how to do this but basically you can now make an online/paper wallet hybrid.
- Login in offline mode (Must have private browsing enabled and disconnect your internet when prompted)
- Generate some new keys
- Print a paper wallet
- Log back in in normal mode, add the bitcoin addresses you just generated
- To make a transaction login in offline mode and when prompted scan the private key QR code off your paper wallet
This way your private keys never touch the internet (even in encrypted form) and even if the site went rouge the keys could not be stolen.
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