From: mmalmi@cc.hut.fi Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 08:08:36 +0300 To: Satoshi Nakamoto Subject: Re: Bitcoin All right, I can do the website and the FAQ. I'll start writing the FAQ now with the questions that I can think of. I have a feature suggestion for the program: a UI tool for creating password protected private keys and saving them into a custom location. Backups of the key will be needed to be safe from losing the control of your coins, and for using the coins on more than one computers. Password protection would be needed to make using your money more difficult for someone who happens to find your key file. Maybe a bug/feature tracker could be set up at the Sourceforge project page? I'm running a bitcoin node always when my PC is powered on, which means about 24/7. Bitcoin is a great project, and it's really cool to participate! -Martti Malmi Quoting Satoshi Nakamoto : > Thanks for starting that topic on ASC, your understanding of bitcoin is > spot on. Some of their responses were rather Neanderthal, although I > guess they're so used to being anti-fiat-money that anything short of > gold isn't good enough. They concede that something is flammable, but > argue that it'll never burn because there'll never be a spark. Once > it's backed with cash, that might change, but I'd probably better > refrain from mentioning that in public anymore until we're closer to > ready to start. I think we'll get flooded with newbies and we need to > get ready first. > > What we need most right now is website writing. My writing is not that > great, I'm a much better coder. Maybe you could create the website on > sourceforge, which is currently blank. If you can write a FAQ, I can > give you a compilation of my replies to questions in e-mail and forums > for facts and details and ideas. > > Codewise, there's not much that's easy right now. One thing that's > needed is an interface for server side scripting languages such as > Java, Python, PHP, ASP, etc. Bitcoin would be running on the web > server, and server side script could call it to do transactions. It's > Windows, so I guess OLE/COM is the interface. > > One easy thing that really helps is to run a node that can accept > incoming connections (forward port 8333 on your firewall) to make sure > that new users who try it out have someone to connect to. If they run > it and get no connections, they'll probably just give up. > > Satoshi > > > Martti Malmi wrote: >> Message body follows: >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm Trickstern from the anti-state.com forum, and I would like to >> help with Bitcoin, if there's something I can do. >> >> I have a good touch on Java and C languages from school courses >> (I'm studying CS), but not so very much development experience yet. >> I think I could learn the C++ tricks quite easily on that basis. I >> could also do testing or documentation. >> >> Best regards, >> Martti Malmi >> >> -- >> This message has been sent to you, a registered SourceForge.net user, >> by another site user, through the SourceForge.net site. This message >> has been delivered to your SourceForge.net mail alias. You may reply >> to this message using the "Reply" feature of your email client, or >> using the messaging facility of SourceForge.net at: >> https://sourceforge.net/sendmessage.php?touser=2495503 >>