Topic: Will the free open source Armory wallet continue to be developed going forward? - page 3. (Read 8383 times)

I won't let that happen =)

Cute sentiment but I do not think you understand the type of resources required to build this type of software where individuals can generate and hold the private keys of their own wealth. Funding the building out of the core infrastructure the entire community uses has not been cheap and many people have made significant sacrifices of both time and money to get Bitcoin where it is today.

This type of cryptography and software code is complicated and to be sustainable requires very skilled developers. Projects can be maintained on a donation basis but that is usually not very sustainable without either (1) large sacrifices of opportunity cost by the developers, like the extremely poor guy who maintains PGP, or (2) a very generous and magnanimous financial benefactor. Usually it requires a combination of the two like Dr. Wuille, Dr. Adam Back thinks is one of our community's greatest assets, who took a significant pay cut to work full-time on Bitcoin.

To help you understand the magnitude; in Armory's case I and two ideologically aligned friends were the generous and magnanimous financial benefactors of the $600,000 seed round. Additionally, I solely and personally assumed, via binding legal contract, the downside of the exchange rate risk but let the upside in the Bitcoin price accrue to the company so developers would know their paychecks were going to be there and they could plan for their families. As a result, there have been over $1,000,000 of resources consumed by the project. That is many many orders of magnitude more financial support than all of the donations of the entire community combined and 10-20x more than the PGP guy's Linux grant.

And there are other wallet initiatives that have received significant financial assistance like my buddy Roger Ver who helped fund Blockchain.info and Roger and I both funded the initial seed round for Bitpay that has released the Copay wallet.

Unfortunately, great software does not just write itself yet and we should all remember that developers need to eat food, provide for families, use computers, etc. but that is not the world we live in.

Rest in Peace armory, we loved you, you never let us down, till now.
hope this project won't die

Same for me  Do we need more donations or something?

armory is the only wallet i use

Our bug ticketing and code review engine is internal only. You'll have to toy with it.

Is there a list of those bugs somewhere? I would like to take a look and see if I can fix them so that I can use 0.94.

It is in a state that's somehow close to what 0.94 should have been, but it has some major bugs left in it. You can play with it if you wish.

Was the ffreeze branch the same as the gitian-ffreeze currently in the github?

That's being worked on on top of 0.93.3 afaik.

Ok.

Can you guys at least put out an update for lowS signatures so that armory will work with bitcoin core 0.11.1?

If it comes down to that I will release everything I have and maintain the software myself.

Would you guys be able to republish it so that we can make aaacommunity developed version based on what has already been written?

It was removed sometimes mid August

So it's no longer on github?

I will explain that in due time. Rest, assured, the community will get an in length explanation when this whole situation is sorted out.


If you have a local copy of the ffreeze branch with its last commit (before it was pulled from the repo), you would have access to that.

Not sounding good. I hope you take care to warn Armory users not to upgrade to latest Bitcoin Core 0.11.1.

When will this resume and what exactly stopped its development in the first place?

Where can I get it?

A reply is in order. Stuff I ignore I do on purpose, so no point asking again.


Not much to reply to people that don't see the benefit of running full nodes.


I've been the defacto maintainer of the FOSS version since about a year. etotheipi and the rest of the team are busy with the high end enterprise features, and running the company (which is a lot more work than I would have guessed!)


All FOSS development has halted since sometimes in August. Bug fixes are worked on, but currently the FOSS version is limited to 0.93.

Long story short, we are in the process of figuring things out. I can tell you a couple things for now:

1) The team has a strong intention to resume FOSS development.
2) 0.94 has been ready since July

I used Armory in the first place for cold storage. Switched to Trezor and no longer use it. Now that hardware wallets are common and inexpensive Armory is looking long in the tooth. If it would fully support Trezor (multiple hidden wallets with passphrases) it would have an edge over myTrezor and Multibit HD as a more private solution. I would very much like to use a fully validating node with Trezor. Would I pay for it? Nope.