Topic: Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet - page 93. (Read 586242 times)

I hate all units other then BTC. It's confuses the shit out of me

Raw xml map data: http://mycelium.com/lt/m/data/ads.xml
You are most welcome to add it to coinmap.org.

By the way, Jan has been working hard on a neat new feature: http://www.mycelium.com/lt/m/

Now you can see the map of all the bitcoin sellers on LocalTrader in a convenient Google map in your browser! You can use it to look around and find people in your area, or if you are going to travel somewhere, you can check what kind of sell offers you can find at your destination. This also shows off the capabilities of our API, which we will continue to develop and expand to bring you more LocalTrader features.

i am not opposed to use a uBtc based unit. i am not opposed to create a new alias for uBtc = microbitcoins = microbits = µBtc if people really want it.

i am opposed to "officially" chose "bit" as the name for it, since it creates tons of confusion.

I think this is bad idea. I think that general public should get used to mili-, micro-, nano- prefixes and adapt to Bitcoin and its basic rules, not the other way around (Bitcoin rules adapting to general public or to psychological discomfort of "owning a fraction of something"). There are far too many "convenient" alternatives. Maybe when 1 µBTC = 1 USD, but it would still be quite confusing with cent in my opinion.
Edit: After reading jgarziks's post, I see the point. Well, I still think that "existing financial software and many popular accounting and finance packages" should adapt to Bitcoin not the other way around. But I admit, this view of mine is probably not very realistic one.

Unrelated... I have realized my first trade through LocalTrader today and it was great experience. We met and talked about Bitcoin for about 15 minutes and even tried opposite transaction for small amount of mBTC. However, I am little bit puzzled about notification behavior of Mycelium. For me, I got update (sound and vibration) only when I launched application. My counterpart (seller) on the other way got notification in action bar as some icon. I might take quite a while to notice buy request or update, therefore increase in "expected trade time". But overall, I liked functionality very much.

Alright

A short term solution is to add it but not as a default unit. Then if it picks up as a trend change it to default. That's my proposal.

I read jgarzik's points here: http://blog.bitpay.com/2014/05/02/bitpay-bitcoin-and-where-to-put-that-decimal-point.html
... and I tend to agree

Andreas and I are discussing it and the bottom line right now: I am more or less for it, and he is more or less against it 
However it seems to me that none of us have a very hard opinion on it.

The thing is that it is very hard to get a good picture about where the trend is heading. There is a very active bitcoin group in Vienna, we will start a live discussion there tomorrow evening, let's see what they come up with.

What does the Mycelium dev team think of the new "bit" unit? I'm a proponent of this change and would love the option to show µBTC as bits. If we want this change to take off, it needs to be supported in all popular wallets.

I know Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet is not new and not fool-proof but it workout nice as an easy way to check out the probability of valid transactions for all my purchases.

Version 1.2.3 has been in the beta channel since friday, and is it generally available now.

New wallet features:
 - In Cold Storage the user can monitor the address and balance before spending. Also, you can now scan a bitcoin address instead of a private key to monitor (but not spend from) it.
 - Added Slovenian translation and updated other translations.
 - Added donation button in about section. <-- try it out  

New Local Trader features:
 - Map integration when browsing Local Trader ads. Zoom out to see nearby trades.
 - As a buyer you can refresh the price of a trade according to the market rate until it has been accepted.

Yes. I'll make a link with XML data available.

Is it possible to get the traders location data?  I thought about a new layer on coinmap.org showing the mycelium crowd

That's the next thing after LocalTrader.

http://blog.greenaddress.it/2014/04/30/reusing-addresses-is-bad-m-kay/

It's true. We need determenistic wallets soon.

I just completed a buy on local trader - totally great and serves a very valuable purpose.

Some comments on user experience:

• It's not clear what the different alerts mean - there are two types of alert. 1) The dot on the localtrader button inside the app seems to come and go at random and has different colours and I wasn't sure what it indicated - presumably new activity but it didn't seem to correlate with new activity. It would turn up when there was no activity and it would not go away when I expected it should. 2) The status-bar notification at the top of the OS can only be cleared from the status bar, not from doing some action in the mycelium app. It wasn't clear what that icon was indicating, although I assume it was 'new activity' even though it didn't seem to correlate very well with that. In general I felt that the alerts for 'new activity' were not timely, had unclear meanings, and were consistent with my expectations.
• The 'final' screen after opening a new buy shows a chat window and accept/abort buttons. I felt that it was not clear what I should be doing next on this screen. I think the accept/abort buttons should be below the chat, since logically the user will chat first and only later press the buttons. Moving the buttons allows the user to clearly interact from the top first, then end interaction at the bottom. Chat first, then use the accept button. I initially wondered when to press the accept button and what I would be accepting (was I accepting the rate or was I accepting that the trade was complete or what?) Putting the buttons below the chat makes it clear to chat first, then once the chat is resolved (ie you are meeting with each other) the users should use the accept button.
• Response time to actions such as chat and accept was not very fast, in the order of tens of seconds. The UI just seemed a lot slower to respond than I would have expected from a normal internet-connected app

Overall the experience was fantastic and I would gladly recommend anyone to use local trader. With a bit of polish it will be more clear which actions the user should be performing (and in which order) to complete the process.

It has been out for more than a week. LOL

Sounds very good! Looking forward to the new versions

The limits are set by the seller. Buying and selling is described here: http://www.mycelium.com/lt/help.html

When individual private keys are exported they are in plain text using the SIPA format (The UI warns you about copying it to clipboard)
When making a PDF backup all keys are exported in one go and encrypted with a password you write down from the display.

Is the limit set by the seller or MyCelium and how do you sell bitcoins?