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lian / bitcoin-ruby

bitcoin utils and protocol in ruby.
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I'm namesquatting on your gem! #36

Closed ashmoran closed 10 years ago

ashmoran commented 10 years ago

Hi @lian

A couple of years ago I started a Bitcoin client implementation in Ruby, it's published as the bitcoin gem. I didn't get very far with it. I made it read and write some data from unencrypted BDB wallets (in fact it's partly my fault the organisation https://github.com/ruby-bdb/ exists, as I started hacking on the bdb gem to update it).

I got too busy to work on this and never returned to it. I stumbled on your gem recently, which looks pretty polished. In fact I used it in a demo in a Bitcoin Addresses I gave last night, in fact.

Let me know if you'd like to take over use of this gem name. I guess the only difference would be people adding gem 'bitcoin' instead of gem 'bitcoin-ruby' to their Gemfiles, but there's no point me sitting on it any longer.

(Edit: if you don't want it, I might just nuke it anyway…)

Cheers Ash

weilu commented 10 years ago

@ashmoran :+1:

ashmoran commented 10 years ago

@weilu That's all the encouragement I need. I've added @lian and @samphippen who are owners of the bitcoin-ruby gem on rubygems.org as owners of the bitcoin gem. Feel free to either nuke it or push a new version and remove me as an owner. If you want to release a new version you'll need to use one I haven't, 0.2.0 would be the most obvious starting point - and probably yank the 0.1.x versions.

I just remembered that actually I accidentally took this over from someone else first time round - there were 0.0.x versions out there but they'd been yanked and the gem deleted. Only realised I was re-using the gem name when I found I couldn't push version 0.0.1.

lian commented 10 years ago

sorry for the late reply. gem pushed, thank you!

ashmoran commented 10 years ago

Ah cool! And no probs, I'm glad it's been put to proper use at last.

ashmoran commented 10 years ago

@lian I was just renewing some domains and realised/noticed I'd registered some for my own attempt at a gem. I have bitcoinrb.info, bitcoinrb.org and bitcoinrb.net. Currently registered on Gandi. You may prefer a different domain if and when you decide to register one, however if you did want one/any of those just let me know my 21/07/2014, which is when they expire. Otherwise I'll let them fade away.

lian commented 10 years ago

@ashmoran thanks for the thought, but i think you can let them fade away!

ashmoran commented 10 years ago

That's fine, I'll just ignore them from now on then.

Cheers Ash