Both my Electrum wallet support and Brownbear's Armory support has now been successfully merge into main tree - so time to close and pay now that it happens to be the 28th?

Here is my take on the support for importing keys from Electrum wallets  - no external dependencies - uses Boost::Spirit to parse the python wallet dictionary:

https://github.com/InvictusInnovations/BitShares/pull/45

I spent a couple of hours wondering why my scrypt code wasn't working... Turned out to be me swapping the parameters. Doh.

Then it was the UTF issue, fortunately I decided to take a break and while taking a bit of fresh air I figured out that it probably was an encoding issue. But yes I shouldve read the forum to save me that bit. Instead I had to deal with the conversion. *shudder*

I am looking at importing the Multi-Bit wallet. In fact I just need to get the scrypt-nastiness in order.

Quote from: batmaninpink on January 21, 2014, 01:09:02 pm

Quote from: drekrob on January 21, 2014, 12:06:52 pm

well awesome, welcome to the forum and thanks for letting everyone know they are wasting their time on this because you are nearly finished. that's a two person nightshift and 20+ hours of coding beeing utterly useless now.

Sorry, I started this yesterday when being stuck at an airport - fully aware that I was probably too late anyway. So any status update would've been "I am looking into this" - which I am sure would not have deterred you or anyone else from continuing (I see a couple of those status updates earlier in this thread...).

Batmaninpink, your code was superior upon inspection due to proper use of the fc library for managing encryption.  The other submission had potential memory leaks and used OpenSSL calls directly without clear tracking of memory or exception safety.   Your submission also had better abstraction of data parsing. 

I have merged your code and will be evaluating it prior to paying the bounty.

Drekrob,  your submission was also very good and absent the competition may have been accepted after some robustness enhancements.  I will give you a 30 PTS tip for your submission (~$360 dollars) which should partially recognize your time.    These bounties are a kind of interview and so redundant work actually has value to us.

It is very clear to me that you are both talented developers and I would like to discuss how we can work together on a non-bounty basis to eliminate redundant effort.  I am looking for some serious c++ full time developers.

Please provide me your PTS addresses.

PTS address below.

well awesome, welcome to the forum and thanks for letting everyone know they are wasting their time on this because you are nearly finished. that's a two person nightshift and 20+ hours of coding beeing utterly useless now.

Sorry, I started this yesterday when being stuck at an airport - fully aware that I was probably too late anyway. So any status update would've been "I am looking into this" - which I am sure would not have deterred you or anyone else from continuing (I see a couple of those status updates earlier in this thread...).