bitcoin-akka
Finance and crypto
bitcoin wallet client
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.06.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Scala and Akka are enjoyable to work with
From 1 comment
I agree on the part that working with Scala and akka is enjoyable! :) About being over-engineered... well, it is quite extensive for what it does but I'm not sure I agree with it…
goldmar on HN
btcd and btcwallet are impressive, modular projects
From 1 comment
Wow, nice to see you commenting here! btcd / btcwallet was an obvious choice since I wanted notification support. It's an impressive piece of work that you've created, and I…
goldmar on HN
Objections
Akka actors cannot block without tying up threads
From 1 comment
It seems that typed actor support it somewhat incomplete. Once you wanted to use typed actors with routers and resizing, there was no documentation. There were some mailing lists…
danieldk on HN
Akka typed actors are poorly supported and under-documented
From 2 comments
It seems that typed actor support it somewhat incomplete. Once you wanted to use typed actors with routers and resizing, there was no documentation. There were some mailing lists…
danieldk on HNIn Akka you can use typed actors as well: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/typed-actors.html
pkuki on HN
Wallet design requires passphrase to derive addresses, which hurts server use
From 1 comment
The README for the btcwallet library says that it needs to decrypt the root key every time it needs to derive a new address. With hierarchical deterministic keys, you can derive…
mappum on HN
Questions
Are Scala 2.10 reflection bugs with typed actors fixed?
From 1 comment
Under Scala 2.10 there were bugs in the reflection system that made those almost unusable; is that now all fixed?
lmm on HN
Alternatives named
Python half-a-node with asyncio and websockets
From 1 comment
Cool project. btcd is going to make projects like this so much easier in the future, I think. The old school way of doing something like serving notifications over websockets…
eric_bullington on HN
btcrpcclient JSON-RPC library in Go
From 1 comment
nice to see btcd getting more usage, goldmar :) for the related blog entry with some more details, check out…
conformal on HN
btcctl and curl/httpie for JSON-RPC calls
From 1 comment
Wow, nice to see you commenting here! btcd / btcwallet was an obvious choice since I wanted notification support. It's an impressive piece of work that you've created, and I…
goldmar on HN