Hi all,
Shentist and I thought it would be good to set up a development diary for the progress we are making on Metaexchange, which is being funded by our 100% pay delegate, dev-metaexchange.monsterer.
https://github.com/wildbunny/metaexchangeThe first task on this project is to produce a daemon to enable anyone to set up a bitcoin on-ramp into bitshares.
The idea is for the daemon to convert bitcoin deposits into bitAssets directly, so users can send bitcoin to a special address which is monitored by the daemon and have the daemon issue the corresponding quantity of bitAssets and send them directly to the depositor, thereby enabling an easy route into (and out of, using the reverse technique) bitshares.
Progress so far has been good, I have the first part of the code for scanning the bitshares blockchain in place, for picking out the public key of the depositor, and converting that into a bitcoin address. I also have unit tests for going to and from bitcoin and bitshares public keys and addresses.
The next step is to work on the bitcoin blockchain scanning portion of the code, which will be easier than the bitshares side, since all the RPC data structures already exist and so I expect that to go smoothly.
If you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them!
Cheers, Paul.