Is it possible to run the exchange in -testnet mode, for the duration of testing? That way people could throw money around with wild abandon. It seems like it might be a better testing strategery.

What was the reasoning for using a command-line client instead of a web interface?  A web interface would be more friendly to the average user.

Edit: I see you are working on a graphical client, so I'll rephrase my question: Why a desktop client instead of a web interface?

No need for that, what about Google Accounts and other OpenID providers? Mine even calls me to my landline each time I login.

Also, :/, "random.seed(time.time())", I hope it doesn't use that to generate the keypairs.

And this is why it's opensource.

How would you recommend we generate the keypairs?

OK, I've cleaned a machine here and just run through the setup process, now my machine is 32bit XP so it's not comparable to yours. I've found that I've had no problems, the installation went smoothly.

So the issue is either due to it being Windows 7 or it being 64bit.

If we could have someone with a 32bit version of Windows 7 give it a try and report back that would help narrrow things down.

I'm guessing it's the fact that it's 64bit that could be causing issues, see this link.

But until someone with plain old 32bit windows 7 gets back to us we won't know.

Well Tea, the problem is that its 64bit windows you're using, someone else has pm'd me with the same problem.

The m2crypto package that I included is 32bit M2Crypto-0.20.2.win32-py2.7.exe
And it seems that only activestate python business edition (not free) has a 64bit windows build.

Anyone know 64bit m2crypto packages for windows?

Perhaps it needs to be run in 32bit mode (is there a way to do this?)

vuce, do you have your machine configured in a certain way to handle 32bit applications?

Could you check add remove programs in the control panel and see if you have Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable package installed, perhaps you have a newer one that's 64bit?

If that's not the case then I'm stumped.

Thanks vuce.

BitterTea (and anyone else with 64bit windows systems) install this(also possibly re-install openssl), it's the 64bit C++ redistributable.
Then give it a try again. let me know the results.

http://glbse.com/downloads/vcredist_x64.exe

I'm very new at all of this but I'm looking for the best way to throw a few hundred bucks at bitcoin in the riskiest way possible that gives me potential for the highest upside. I'm no financial expert and basically just want to gamble it up a bit. IIRC there is some sort of stock option where I'm basically buying a few thousand dollars worth of stock (or bitcoin in this example,) but if the price drops to a certain level those few thousand dollars revert back to the client/invester/someone that's not me and I just lose my couple hundred dollars. Can someone explain this to me and tell me if it's possible with this program?

Asset listing has been done, and now has nice formatting.

http://dev.glbse.com/cgi-bin/list

Content type returned is xml so it should show nicely in the browser (some of the older contracts are still there, and they still have the ugly formatting, all new ones are much more pretty)

Have a look
http://dev.glbse.com/cgi-bin/asset?id=8aba1348a88066189b6ea0753354976f92611aa63b5f4969c59e1c41f6717e1c.xml

These contracts are self verifying.

The contract id is the sha256 hash of the entire document.
The document includes the public keys of both the server and the user, and it includes the signature of the <contract> section of the asset by both the user and the server.