integrating digital payments into p2p protocols

Folks:

I just posted this note over on the Trade forum:

topic 30

There are a few hackers who would be pretty interested in contributing patches to integrate BitCoin payments directly into the Tahoe-LAFS storage protocol. It would be a big job! It would probably take a year of effort before we would be ready to deploy it in a new stable release. Of course, the more people pitch in the faster the work goes.

Regards,

Zooko

community organizer, Tahoe-LAFS project

Hey Zooko!

I wanted to thank you for posting about Bitcoin on your blog a year or two ago, back when I announced it on the Cryptography mailing list.

I’ll offer 5btc contribution for this project. I know it’s not much (yet!), but perhaps it will spark others to donate also. Which address can I send to?

Quote from: BioMike on October 04, 2010, 5:23:40 AM UTC

http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs Funny, I’ve send 10 btc also to them yesterday.

Thanks! for pointing out obvious ^_^

Quote from: mizerydearia on October 04, 2010, 2:07:13 AM UTC

I’ll offer 5btc contribution for this project. I know it’s not much (yet!), but perhaps it will spark others to donate also. Which address can I send to?

http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs <= Check the nice bitcoin button on their site. Funny, I’ve send 10 btc also to them yesterday.

Seems to be an interesting project.

I’ve got a storage node running now (Nicknamed “Sjeng”), connected to VolunteerGrid.

@Zooko, any news on the bitcoin implementation in Tahoe-LAFS?