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
Quote from: Martti Malmi on May 02, 2009Message 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
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