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review for http://dvc4giftcards.us/

With some of the kindly tips I've received for the dvccountdown, I managed to have enough dvc in my pocket to purchase a $1 amazon gift card, which I was going to use to discount an amazon purchase I was planning on making. The site was well presented, and easy to purchase from, but I missed the bit where I was supposed to write a note to the seller. My brain just completely missed the text block, and I think that was because the big cards drew my focus away from it - perhaps it would be better presented another way, like a message box or something just before going to the payment window. Regarding that oversight, I assumed (hoped) the gift card would just be sent to my email address by default, and overnight I received an email from the site admin. It turns out they had seen that I was from .au, and the gift cards were only usable on the US store. I was asked whether I still wanted the card, or a refund, and took the sensible option considering I was looking at something on my local amazon. The next time I want something from the US store (which I do from time to time), and I have DVC to burn, I had a pleasant enough experience to try this site again. For larger purchases, though, I think would prefer bigger denominations than the $1 or $10 to save some time.


Thanks for the review!  Turns out the review bounty is finished, though.

@Unthinkingbit - I would be like to give 1 of my administrator bonus shares (from the 3-Business-Administrator in the bounty file) to Hunterbunter for his review, even though the bounty is over.

Now that was nice of you, very noble. Love seeing this in a community!
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review for http://dvc4giftcards.us/

With some of the kindly tips I've received for the dvccountdown, I managed to have enough dvc in my pocket to purchase a $1 amazon gift card, which I was going to use to discount an amazon purchase I was planning on making. The site was well presented, and easy to purchase from, but I missed the bit where I was supposed to write a note to the seller. My brain just completely missed the text block, and I think that was because the big cards drew my focus away from it - perhaps it would be better presented another way, like a message box or something just before going to the payment window. Regarding that oversight, I assumed (hoped) the gift card would just be sent to my email address by default, and overnight I received an email from the site admin. It turns out they had seen that I was from .au, and the gift cards were only usable on the US store. I was asked whether I still wanted the card, or a refund, and took the sensible option considering I was looking at something on my local amazon. The next time I want something from the US store (which I do from time to time), and I have DVC to burn, I had a pleasant enough experience to try this site again. For larger purchases, though, I think would prefer bigger denominations than the $1 or $10 to save some time.


Thanks for the review!  Turns out the review bounty is finished, though.

@Unthinkingbit - I would be like to give 1 of my administrator bonus shares (from the 3-Business-Administrator in the bounty file) to Hunterbunter for his review, even though the bounty is over.
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I think that all code must be open source for devcoin. So where can I find the source code of this site dvccountdown.blisteringdevelopers.com (ticker and shares view) ?
Thank you but I'm talking about the Hunterbunter ticker (python code) not from php code (for SMF2 forum)  Shocked

Alright so I've decided the best way to do it is to just make github versions of the relevant files for each each (pertaining to the bounties), and copy files/commit to those directories as necessary. It's enough to at least see the logic I'm following, plus the python code to do it too.

Have fun!

https://github.com/hunterbunter
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 Hi , i know all you guys are working hard to promote devcoin and i think your doing a great job .
sure devcoin is going to have a good year this year .The problem so far as i see it ...not just with devcoin , but all the cryptocurrenceys in general including bitcoin: is there is nothing much out there to spend it on.!
 speculation seems to be the only reason to get involved.
i have been thinking of ways that could make devcoin more attractive and products that everyone needs on a daily basis that could be purchased with devcoin to get a jump up on all the other currencies out there.. i am in the uk and the product i have come up with is mobile phone credit.
when you buy a ten pound  top up voucher from a conveinance store the store owner makes 40 pence no doubt the payment processing teminal also makes about 60p so you only realy get nine pounds of airtime for your your ten. there are websites that you can use to top up anyones phone not just your own just buy simply entering their number. therfore if it is possible to buy airtime direct or wholesale direct from the phone networks and sell top up vouchers accepting devcoin by cutting the middle men out it should be possible to sell ten pounds credit for nine pounds which would be very attractive . the cryptocurency comming in for this service of course could also be sold on again at a mark up to keep it turning over and at the same time get a lot of atention to devcoin by word of mouth ebay advertizing ect. i have attempted to make a  demo website using a webbuilder as i am not a techie just to show the idea. not sure if i should post it here as i dont want to tout bussiness in here and kicked off.
i would like to get involved more somehow as i think devcoin is the only cryptocurrency that has a very long term future because its not just about making the money it,s about the people behind it and getting a fair share of work put in . none of the others do this so it really is a no brainer
looking forward to your thoughts any feedback. happy new year to all jason t
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I am not a tech but I had a thought that it would be neat if I could have my devcoin wallet in a little USB device with a screen showing the balance.

It would have to be secured and have its own operating system so it's independent from whatever computer it is plugged into, but I could synch it whenever I like from anywhere. (MAYBE it could even have wireless connectivity so it could just synch whenever Im in range, then it doesnt nee to be USB? ....oh look a rabbit hole!)

I know there are Apps etc, but they require a smartphone...I prefer to keep my technologies in their own little boxes and a neat little Devcoin shaped USB purse would be kind of cool... (IMO) and a bit like having actual physical coins (it could be a really funky coin shape and it neednt be a precious metal since the item itself has no value...it could even be available in a range of colours and come with a matching watch!...oh wait, it could BE the watch!.. (Damn rabbit holes).

Is this possible? And if you take my idea, please make me one so I can write a review on Devtome for you Smiley

(hidden here is a serious question but it is Sunday morning and I feel playful!)

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The hurdle that I just can NOT overcome, mostly from markm's comments in other sections, is how to give the buyer the confidence that the wallet and private key are secure. I just don't see a way to guarantee that to the buyer. If I were a scammer, I could potentially just keep all the details and cash it in at any time. Maybe it would have to be a partial key, but then that requires the user to do some work on their end and I want to keep it simple. The value of the metal itself would of course be attractive...silver or gold would have their own value built in, but I'd love to tackle the cold storage plus coin concept. It's very attractive to me in promoting a coin. It wouldn't be Casascius, of course.

That is the tough one. Is there any way to instead make a machine that would print out the parts of a physical coin? Or maybe a just a kit with a blank coin and a security strip.


Fuzzy and I discovered we wanted to do similar things with a physical coin. It seems like silver or aluminum have lower melting points, but unless the demand is there, the cost of getting the equipment and dies are extremely prohibitive. IMO, it seems like a test run with an independent professional mint would be a better use of resources.

But yes, a press and dies are possible and quite easy to come by, relatively speaking. It would need professional engraving anyway and then if they die breaks, well, then there's that repeated expense.

If a project like this could prove itself, I think Fuzzy would be a willing participant.
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Just thought I would bring this up, it may not be an issue, there is one thing in the files that are off (so far as I could see). Smeagol's address seems to be missing a character Smiley  I just came across that when parsing them for my prototype website, thought you should know Smiley

Bitcoin addresses use base 58 encoding, so on average 1 in 58 would be at least a letter shorter. To be safe, I just added a check to see that the address is valid before adding it to the receiver file.

Code:
if base58.get_bcaddress_version(addressFraction.coinAddress) == 0:
    self.coinAddresses.append(addressFraction.coinAddress)
else:
    print('Warning, the address %s is invalid and will not get paid.' % addressFraction.coinAddress)

Smeagol's short address, along with all the other short addresses, are all valid.
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I don't see any fixes in those searches. Most results my browser shows as one I already visited too but I checked them again.

Hopefully if it is indeed fixed I will find once I get Moneychanger onto a Fedora 19 box again that it now works.

Going to have to go build it for 19 again to try that. Maybe they have updated the packages by now with whatever fixes, though those bug reports never seem to end with any claim that it has actually been fixed yet.

Also try to figure out what exactly needs copying from build machine to a machine that has keyboard and monitor and mouse in order to run it on a target-machine. In case it still does not work over ssh -X from my (Fedora 17 still) workstation aka graphics-terminal.

Monday I will find out firm dates for an electrician to rewire my country-house, once that is wired up I will finally have plenty of electrical circuits so be able to fire up more of my machines and have room to equip more of them with screens and keyboards and mice in an accessible manner.

-MarkM-
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I have tried it on Fedora 17 and on Fedora 19.

Fedora might maybe have some kind of problem with the concept of a "system tray", which seems to be a mac and/or windows concept.

However, it might be the case that more grandmas use windows or mac than use various types of Linux? (Is Android a type of Linux?) so maybe that is okay?

FellowTraveler basically just says Fedora must be using a broken windowing system or something.

1. We have many users on Linux who are able to use it just fine -- it's not a problem with Linux.

2. Google this:  "system tray" broken on Fedora.

Notice all the complaints and bug reports related to this issue on Fedora. (For other apps, like Dropbox, Skype, etc.)

3. Google these:
   A. solved "system tray" fedora
   B how to fix "system tray" fedora

(You can see there are many various solutions for this as well.)
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Ok, added the clarification.

Changing the handling of lowercase input was a bit more complex than I thought, but it's done now. As far as I can tell it's working properly now so you should be able to enter whatever case and it should work. If something weird happens to anyone please let me know. http://dvccountdown.blisteringdevelopers.com

It worked for me, you get the 9 share improvement payment.

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If you wonder about the discrepancy between "current round submission" and a blank name search, it's because of what I presume is normal rounding procedure. They both read the same file, but the submission part just reads the summary figures (ie Bounty: 406 shares) where as the search tallies each individual item.

Thanks for catching that, it turned out that the Factotums were not getting their administrator bouns. They are now, and a make up has been added for the three factotums in round 30.

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Also, not sure if there's still a bounty on this, but I decided to post my user experience with http://dvc4giftcards.us anyway:
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Thanks for the post, but that bounty is finished.


Just thought I would bring this up, it may not be an issue, there is one thing in the files that are off (so far as I could see). Smeagol's address seems to be missing a character Smiley  I just came across that when parsing them for my prototype website, thought you should know Smiley

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Ok, added the clarification.

Changing the handling of lowercase input was a bit more complex than I thought, but it's done now. As far as I can tell it's working properly now so you should be able to enter whatever case and it should work. If something weird happens to anyone please let me know. http://dvccountdown.blisteringdevelopers.com

It worked for me, you get the 9 share improvement payment.

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If you wonder about the discrepancy between "current round submission" and a blank name search, it's because of what I presume is normal rounding procedure. They both read the same file, but the submission part just reads the summary figures (ie Bounty: 406 shares) where as the search tallies each individual item.

Thanks for catching that, it turned out that the Factotums were not getting their administrator bouns. They are now, and a make up has been added for the three factotums in round 30.

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Also, not sure if there's still a bounty on this, but I decided to post my user experience with http://dvc4giftcards.us anyway:
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Thanks for the post, but that bounty is finished.
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Incoming emails are now working on a rudimentary state at the SimpleMachines Forum via:

http://trollkeep.com/forum/

As of this writing they are not being flagged as new so one must go into their inbox to look for them. That should be a quick fix once a needed break is finished. Also tests have not been done from email accounts with a name not already registered on the forum. The code is supposed to mark such a sender as Mailman; yet, again, not yet tested.

Obviously there is still tweaking, stress testing and bug hunting to be done, yet the nuts and bolts appear to be in order.

- Nova
 
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36 shares for a price ticker in a forum.

I made an SMF mod to do just this. Demo can be seen here:

162.243.37.115 (Just a vanilla vps, I wasn't going to grab a domain for a demo)

I've submitted the mod to SMF since I'll be building it out for other coins in the future. I guess it takes some time for them to approve it so I uploaded a copy of the mod to dropbox too:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/591u0hd7sqgaa4g/dvcticker.tar.gz
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3819

It updates every 5 seconds and is linked to crypto-trade.com's devcoin section.

Also I'm looking to get on the marketing share list. I put a banner on the main page of dvcticker.info and the chart subpages. I PM'd the person mentioned on devtome but haven't heard anything back.

Great job on the ticker tenthirtyone! I am working on adding it to devcoin.org right now. I made one small edit -  currently the anchor tag to cryptotrade wraps around a div tag which is valid in HTML5 only (so it might cause problems in some browsers). Just change this line:

$("#dvcPrice").text($out);

to this:

$("#dvcPrice").html('https://www.crypto-trade.com/trade/dvc_btc">'+$out+'');

and remove the anchor tag around the dvcPrice div.

Thanks again for creating it!
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Also, not sure if there's still a bounty on this, but I decided to post my user experience with http://dvc4giftcards.us anyway:

review for http://dvc4giftcards.us/

With some of the kindly tips I've received for the dvccountdown, I managed to have enough dvc in my pocket to purchase a $1 amazon gift card, which I was going to use to discount an amazon purchase I was planning on making. The site was well presented, and easy to purchase from, but I missed the bit where I was supposed to write a note to the seller. My brain just completely missed the text block, and I think that was because the big cards drew my focus away from it - perhaps it would be better presented another way, like a message box or something just before going to the payment window. Regarding that oversight, I assumed (hoped) the gift card would just be sent to my email address by default, and overnight I received an email from the site admin. It turns out they had seen that I was from .au, and the gift cards were only usable on the US store. I was asked whether I still wanted the card, or a refund, and took the sensible option considering I was looking at something on my local amazon. The next time I want something from the US store (which I do from time to time), and I have DVC to burn, I had a pleasant enough experience to try this site again. For larger purchases, though, I think would prefer bigger denominations than the $1 or $10 to save some time.


I came across this site while I was working on the "Spend DVC" section on devcoin.org but I intentionally left it out because my WOT (Web of Trust) plugin flagged it as untrustworthy:

https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/dvc4giftcards.us/event-29965#events

There is a claim that the site was involved with phishing.

I am working on updates to devcoin.org now.... what do people think - should it be added?
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I cannot quite catch what you need.... for the current round (paying out) info, you should refer to official https://github.com/Unthinkingbit/charity , and for the next round (that changing from time to time), you may find the infos from http://d.evco.in/charity , and I update the script every day at  about UTC+2.  Isn't that enough?


Hey emfox!  I have been working on something similar to your site and just playing around with what I can get out of it. Maybe we can merge efforts or bounce ideas off each other or something. I am also working on a few other things I have seen mentioned on the board here.  Right now the prototype is at: http://madrabbitproductions.com/devcoin/

Chad
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Ok, will do. Are there other improvements you had in mind? Or just saying?

Please add a note saying that the number of devcoins in the "Current Submission Round Details" will decrease until the round ends. This is because some people will look at the box without understanding what it means, think that they're going to get about that many devcoins, and be upset when they find they received way less.


Ok, added the clarification.

Changing the handling of lowercase input was a bit more complex than I thought, but it's done now. As far as I can tell it's working properly now so you should be able to enter whatever case and it should work. If something weird happens to anyone please let me know. http://dvccountdown.blisteringdevelopers.com

If you wonder about the discrepancy between "current round submission" and a blank name search, it's because of what I presume is normal rounding procedure. They both read the same file, but the submission part just reads the summary figures (ie Bounty: 406 shares) where as the search tallies each individual item.

Also, not sure if there's still a bounty on this, but I decided to post my user experience with http://dvc4giftcards.us anyway:

Whoot!  Another update!

Both $1 and $10 are on sale, selling with NO fees!  Just hop on over to http://dvc4giftcards.us/store.html, buy a gift card and write your 50 word review!
The $1 gift card is only about 27,000 DVC.  The share award last round was 210,000 DVC, and you must be thinking of a good way to spend it!

"Two shares for the first person who writes about a post at least 50 words long about buying the gift card from (the amazon gift card) business, and a one share award for the second person."

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review for http://dvc4giftcards.us/

With some of the kindly tips I've received for the dvccountdown, I managed to have enough dvc in my pocket to purchase a $1 amazon gift card, which I was going to use to discount an amazon purchase I was planning on making. The site was well presented, and easy to purchase from, but I missed the bit where I was supposed to write a note to the seller. My brain just completely missed the text block, and I think that was because the big cards drew my focus away from it - perhaps it would be better presented another way, like a message box or something just before going to the payment window. Regarding that oversight, I assumed (hoped) the gift card would just be sent to my email address by default, and overnight I received an email from the site admin. It turns out they had seen that I was from .au, and the gift cards were only usable on the US store. I was asked whether I still wanted the card, or a refund, and took the sensible option considering I was looking at something on my local amazon. The next time I want something from the US store (which I do from time to time), and I have DVC to burn, I had a pleasant enough experience to try this site again. For larger purchases, though, I think would prefer bigger denominations than the $1 or $10 to save some time.
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I can't wait for this!  It should make navigation much easier.
Quite. And powered by devcoin, nice. Cheers to everyone working on this.

Tibbers: good to see you made it over with the video.
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Does it mean we will soon have official forum?

That's the intention. I think it will take at least a few weeks to create and test the new code modules, plus make the forum sections and add a template.

I can't wait for this!  It should make navigation much easier.
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Ok, will do. Are there other improvements you had in mind? Or just saying?

Please add a note saying that the number of devcoins in the "Current Submission Round Details" will decrease until the round ends. This is because some people will look at the box without understanding what it means, think that they're going to get about that many devcoins, and be upset when they find they received way less.
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I can get it to just compare lowercase-lowercase, that'll solve that problem, but it entirely depends on whether different people will be using the same names with different capitalizations in the future. If it's safe to assume not, this is easily fixable.

People must use different names. Please change it to compare lowercase-lowercase.

I suggest an additional 9 share payment for fixing the lowercase uppercase problem and for other improvements, any objections?

Ok, will do. Are there other improvements you had in mind? Or just saying?


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If you just put the round number in without a name, it'll come up with all the shares for that block - missing the bitcoin and devcoin share lists, because they were labelled differently to the others and I'm too tired now to figure out how to include them (Unthinkingbit - any chance you can put a 1-BitcoinShareList or something for the share list peeps in the account files?

Done, Emfox's script should grab the updated version of account.py in a day.

Awesome Smiley. I shall feel complete.
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