Feathercoin 0.8.5
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“33905” timestamp=“1384293806”]
[quote author=HopeStillFlies link=topic=4155.msg33901#msg33901 date=1384292310]
Oh, where were we on QR support? Was that something going to be incorporated in the default client?
[/quote]I don’t understand this use case. How would that work exactly?
Do I point my external USB webcam at my screen (I don’t own one, all my machines have had built in web cams for the past 5 years that you actually can’t point at the screen without a mirror), so now you’re adding camera support to the client too? Who would do this, when they could just cut and paste the address? Or click on the feathercoin:// link? Or use the payment protocol?
Seems like a solution in search of a problem, but maybe I’m just missing the use case.
[/quote]Multibit has it, it comes in handy at events say if you are charging for Beers you can just have the QR code on the screen and people can pay by scanning on their phones. It also has a copy/paste option for printout. I think it saves it to your drive as a PNG.
It’s just a convenience thing really, might be handy for merchants?
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Yes on the merchant angle. For BTC at the video game shop if my boss goes to do a hand off he pastes the QR image for the unique BTC address he made for that transaction and when he goes to meet them and do the hand off, he just has the people do the transaction through the BTC client on their phone by snapping the QR code.
I mean, if there’s a 3rd party ftc address -> qr that worked you could always just direct people to that, it’s just convenient to have it in the client.
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“33907” timestamp=“1384294613”]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=4155.msg33905#msg33905 date=1384293806]
[quote author=HopeStillFlies link=topic=4155.msg33901#msg33901 date=1384292310]
Oh, where were we on QR support? Was that something going to be incorporated in the default client?
[/quote]I don’t understand this use case. How would that work exactly?
Do I point my external USB webcam at my screen (I don’t own one, all my machines have had built in web cams for the past 5 years that you actually can’t point at the screen without a mirror), so now you’re adding camera support to the client too? Who would do this, when they could just cut and paste the address? Or click on the feathercoin:// link? Or use the payment protocol?
Seems like a solution in search of a problem, but maybe I’m just missing the use case.
[/quote]Multibit has it, it comes in handy at events say if you are charging for Beers you can just have the QR code on the screen and people can pay by scanning on their phones. It also has a copy/paste option for printout. I think it saves it to your drive as a PNG.
It’s just a convenience thing really, might be handy for merchants?
[/quote]Oooooooohhhhh. Showing QR Codes, not reading them! Got it.
This is already implemented in 0.6.4.4. What new features are being requested then?
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“33909” timestamp=“1384296037”]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=4155.msg33907#msg33907 date=1384294613]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=4155.msg33905#msg33905 date=1384293806]
[quote author=HopeStillFlies link=topic=4155.msg33901#msg33901 date=1384292310]
Oh, where were we on QR support? Was that something going to be incorporated in the default client?
[/quote]I don’t understand this use case. How would that work exactly?
Do I point my external USB webcam at my screen (I don’t own one, all my machines have had built in web cams for the past 5 years that you actually can’t point at the screen without a mirror), so now you’re adding camera support to the client too? Who would do this, when they could just cut and paste the address? Or click on the feathercoin:// link? Or use the payment protocol?
Seems like a solution in search of a problem, but maybe I’m just missing the use case.
[/quote]Multibit has it, it comes in handy at events say if you are charging for Beers you can just have the QR code on the screen and people can pay by scanning on their phones. It also has a copy/paste option for printout. I think it saves it to your drive as a PNG.
It’s just a convenience thing really, might be handy for merchants?
[/quote]Oooooooohhhhh. Showing QR Codes, not reading them! Got it.
This is already implemented in 0.6.4.4. What new features are being requested then?
[/quote]It is? I don’t see it.
Actually scanning QR codes on a laptop can be done but it’s really fiddly. There is software out there but it’s not convenient. The only use case I could think for that is if the Merchant wanted a POS that could issue refunds, where an external webcam acted as a kind of Barcode scanner like they have on tills. Though for security reasons you would probably want this as dedicated hardware and not on a mutli purpose machine that could be hacked.
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“33907” timestamp=“1384294613”]
Multibit has it
[/quote]Chris beat me to it. It is very useful. Just click the button to copy/paste the .png QR code.
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[quote name=“chrisj” post=“33910” timestamp=“1384297858”]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=4155.msg33909#msg33909 date=1384296037]
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=4155.msg33907#msg33907 date=1384294613]
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=4155.msg33905#msg33905 date=1384293806]
[quote author=HopeStillFlies link=topic=4155.msg33901#msg33901 date=1384292310]
Oh, where were we on QR support? Was that something going to be incorporated in the default client?
[/quote]I don’t understand this use case. How would that work exactly?
Do I point my external USB webcam at my screen (I don’t own one, all my machines have had built in web cams for the past 5 years that you actually can’t point at the screen without a mirror), so now you’re adding camera support to the client too? Who would do this, when they could just cut and paste the address? Or click on the feathercoin:// link? Or use the payment protocol?
Seems like a solution in search of a problem, but maybe I’m just missing the use case.
[/quote]Multibit has it, it comes in handy at events say if you are charging for Beers you can just have the QR code on the screen and people can pay by scanning on their phones. It also has a copy/paste option for printout. I think it saves it to your drive as a PNG.
It’s just a convenience thing really, might be handy for merchants?
[/quote]Oooooooohhhhh. Showing QR Codes, not reading them! Got it.
This is already implemented in 0.6.4.4. What new features are being requested then?
[/quote]It is? I don’t see it.
Actually scanning QR codes on a laptop can be done but it’s really fiddly. There is software out there but it’s not convenient. The only use case I could think for that is if the Merchant wanted a POS that could issue refunds, where an external webcam acted as a kind of Barcode scanner like they have on tills. Though for security reasons you would probably want this as dedicated hardware and not on a mutli purpose machine that could be hacked.
[/quote]I feel like I’m taking crazy pills… am I using a different 0.6.4.4 client than the rest of the world?
Receive coins-> click on an address-> click on “Show QR code”.
And to be clear, the Payment Protocol solves the above listed problems a whole lot cleaner than QRCodes ever will.
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[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“33917” timestamp=“1384305456”]
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills… am I using a different 0.6.4.4 client than the rest of the world?
Receive coins-> click on an address-> click on “Show QR code”.
And to be clear, the Payment Protocol solves the above listed problems a whole lot cleaner than QRCodes ever will.
[/quote]lulz, just noticed it. I don’t think I’ve ever visited the receive tab since I generated my initial addresses for sites months back … I’m a giver. ;)
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The client can show QR codes but only on Windows! I have not compiled this into the Mac client yet, sorry :(
Poor Mac users, they pay twice the price for a computer and then get forgotten half the time. The Mac client does not handle the Feathercoin URLs either. I believe an installer is required for that to make the client responsible for handling the Feathercoin URLs. If anyone is familiar with this then please let me know.
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Re: QR codes. not on linux source build
I have tested QR codes with my Linux QT build of v0.6.4.4
The \ receive coins \ show QR – no QR image is shown.
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The same here.
I’ve built on Linux, with QR code enabled, but no QR Code shows up.
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[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“33934” timestamp=“1384332238”]
The client can show QR codes but only on Windows! I have not compiled this into the Mac client yet, sorry :([/quote]
Okay that makes sense then. Totally my bad, I run wallets on my Mac and Linux machines but try to keep my Windows stuff away from crypto, so there’s no way I could know. Sorry for my confusion!
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[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“33934” timestamp=“1384332238”]
The client can show QR codes but only on Windows! I have not compiled this into the Mac client yet, sorry :(Poor Mac users, they pay twice the price for a computer and then get forgotten half the time. The Mac client does not handle the Feathercoin URLs either. I believe an installer is required for that to make the client responsible for handling the Feathercoin URLs. If anyone is familiar with this then please let me know.
[/quote]Yeah, I’ve done it plenty of times in the past. Used to make VPN clients that would launch and get their credentials from a protocol handler on Mac, Linux, and Windows.
Everything you need to know is here. Pretty straight forward. Don’t need an installer, you just need to run the client once.
[url=http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001154.html]http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001154.html[/url]
I don’t have a mac any more though, so some brave soul who does will have to take the next part on.
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[quote name=“wrapper0feather” post=“33949” timestamp=“1384349764”]
Re: QR codes. not on linux source buildI have tested QR codes with my Linux QT build of v0.6.4.4
The \ receive coins \ show QR – no QR image is shown.
[/quote]Have you built another client like Litecoin to see if the QR codes are working there?
I just want to make sure that it is the client and not your computer.
[quote author=Kevlar link=topic=4155.msg33965#msg33965 date=1384365035]
[quote author=Bushstar link=topic=4155.msg33934#msg33934 date=1384332238]
The client can show QR codes but only on Windows! I have not compiled this into the Mac client yet, sorry :(Poor Mac users, they pay twice the price for a computer and then get forgotten half the time. The Mac client does not handle the Feathercoin URLs either. I believe an installer is required for that to make the client responsible for handling the Feathercoin URLs. If anyone is familiar with this then please let me know.
[/quote]Yeah, I’ve done it plenty of times in the past. Used to make VPN clients that would launch and get their credentials from a protocol handler on Mac, Linux, and Windows.
Everything you need to know is here. Pretty straight forward. Don’t need an installer, you just need to run the client once.
[url=http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001154.html]http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001154.html[/url]
I don’t have a mac any more though, so some brave soul who does will have to take the next part on.
[/quote]Thanks Kevlar.
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When I go to
https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin-0.8.5Github says ‘not found’???
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[quote name=“Wellenreiter” post=“34150” timestamp=“1384425497”]
When I go to
https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin-0.8.5Github says ‘not found’???
[/quote]You need to login as Wellenreiter for it to appear.
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Feathercoin 0.8.5 , When released ?
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[quote name=“Bushstar” post=“34155” timestamp=“1384428509”]
[quote author=Wellenreiter link=topic=4155.msg34150#msg34150 date=1384425497]
When I go to
https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin-0.8.5Github says ‘not found’???
[/quote]You need to login as Wellenreiter for it to appear.
[/quote]ops!!!
:-[ my fault!!!
My login at github is Wellenreiter01, not Wellenreiter, as Wellenreiter was occupied when I signed up.
Sorry !!! :'(
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404 Page not found. :(
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[quote]
Bushstar
Have you built another client like Litecoin to see if the QR codes are working there?
I just want to make sure that it is the client and not your computer. [/quote]Litecoin v0.8.5.1-8-gffd7439-beta
Linux (13.10) compiled versions from source -
Litecoin -Doesn’t have the option for QR codes, right click in receive coins.
whereas Feathercoin 0.6.4.4 QR code menu option is there on right click, but nothing happens.
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Thanks for that Wrapper.
Wellenreiter and Lizhi I have added both of you again. Apologies Lizhi, I thought I had added you before.
The client compiles but is still broken by the changes to the key so is currently no good. The commit that broke compatibility is linked in below.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/dfa23b94c24aae6466152fccbe896ba5dc0e97b4
