Show HN: Bit v0.5.0 – Bitcoin made easy, now with SegWit support
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- bitcoinfees.earn.com for the fees
- bitpay.com (then blockchain.info if bitpay fails) for the rates
- bitpay / smartbit.com / blockchain for balance and transactions
- And then a lot of functions mainly used to create transactions it seems (I'm not a bitcoin expert)
(utils might the common denominator of all software projects :) ) (also the repetition of methods made me think of "define_method" in ruby)
Pretty solid project! And great name IMHO, people will just google "bit github" (pretty hard to find a unique meaningful name these days), you even got the name in pypi: https://pypi.org/project/bit.
I have the same problem with the graphics language Asymptote - finding examples and StackExchange questions is sometimes just not possible, even though they exist.
1) The descriptive where branding would be useful. The line of thought is something like this: "Apple gives everything such simple and obvious names. Their spreadsheet is simply 'Numbers'. I know — I'll call my new general-purpose programming language 'Code.'"
2) The branded where descriptiveness would be useful. Maybe I've built yet another HTTPS client library for language X with some kind of event-handling twist or whatever? I could call it 'pavlov-http' or 'evented-foobar-http'... But instead I'll name it 'robyzowitck' after my favorite Slobonian fantasy literature monster. Now, when person X uses my HTTP library and person Y inherits the project, they'll have to google what this library actually does, and briefly hate me for giving a silly brand name to a pedestrian utility.
There are a lot of underused utilities of the bitcoin protocol that would change user experience and perception for all blockchain-based digital currencies.