I'm namesquatting on your gem!

[ashmoran]

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]

@ashmoran 👍

[ashmoran]

@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]

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

[ashmoran]

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

[ashmoran]

@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]

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

[ashmoran]

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

Cheers
Ash