I don't think "port" is what you want.

However, there will eventually be support for a JSON-RPC.  You should be able to build whatever you want with javascript once that exists.

The client should only have to download the most recent blocks in the chain. This whole issue disappears once that happens.

I have plans in the far future to allow for a headers-based implementation.  As long as you have the headers, you wouldn't need the whole blockchain (after all, that's kind of what the headers are for).  Thus, if you just created your wallet, you wouldn't need to download the old blocks.

But that's a non-negligible paradigm shift for Armory.  Until then, I'll just focus on not loading the whole blockchain into RAM.  While that's a significant paradigm shift, my upcoming solution will work on systems <1 GB of RAM and not run off to infinity with the size of the blockchain...

(P.S. - I'm talking about available system RAM -- Armory doesn't use 4 GB right now, but you'd have a tough time using it on a Win7 machine with less than 4GB)

Oh yeah. The original reason I came to this thread.

I tried to donate with a credit card, but the payment page never loaded

I'll donate with bitcoin soon

Jim,

If you didn't just donate 5 BTC to me, I'd be donating 5 BTC to you!  I hope you accept my raw appreciation instead of a returned donation
Thanks!

10 BTC sent your way.

No rewards, thanks. I'd rather see all of it go to the actual goal.

Sent you 5BTC.
Keep up the good work

Nice job, looks great!

I hope you don't mind if we borrow some good ideas for the satoshi client

John,

I'd be thrilled if I was responsible for encouraging some new features in the Satoshi client!  Of course, I'd like to take credit for having done it first (like crowdfunding based on those features before anyone else has them ), but I really think the Satoshi client needs some goodies beyond security upgrades.  Security is great and all, but the Satoshi client is both the security and the face of Bitcoin, and I think the face is starting to look kind of boring...


sirk390,

You are awesome!  Thanks so much!  Please email or PM me your email address and/or mailing address, if you'd like your rewards.  I insist that everyone who deserves a USB key and/or Tshirt should get one... the bulk discounts I get for 50+ and 100+ are pretty substantial


On that note:  I haven't gotten the shirts made yet.  I was planning on doing something very simple like

(btw, that's not me... I'm much paler than that )

My girlfriend says I should include the full logo on there, but I have a few arguments against it.  I'm looking for feedback about it:
(1) I am really happy with my logo/icon, and I think it looks great without needing to identify the brand behind it.
(2) I think that identifying the brand is largely unnecessary:  the Bitcoin community is small enough that if someone else is not part of the community, they won't care what brand is behind it (in fact, advertising a brand explicitly may be undesirable for some of us geeks).   If they are part of the community, they will probably recognize it and it won't matter whether the "ARMORY" is there. 

For instance, I own one of these XKCD shirts.  I get all sorts of positive reactions to it regardless of whether the person knows what XKCD is.  But, I know my logo isn't as cool as a velociraptor (I mean, what is cooler than a velociraptor?).  Recommendations are accepted.

Unfortunately, I'm new to Qt, so my UI code is probably "suboptimal".  On the other hand, this is mostly Python, so it should be uniformly more pleasant to deal with   I'm hoping to kind of lock-down the C++ stuff, and then users can fork and modify the code-base strictly with python (and PyQt is delightful!)



I'm only motivated by money if it's enough to cut down my hours or pay off a significant portion of my house.  So, I decided to see if I could pull off the first one with crowdfunding in exchange for keeping my software awesome and open source.  I'll let you know how it goes