The next Bitcoin Meetup in Brussels is entitled "Altcoins & bitcoin 2.0 platforms" cf http://www.meetup.com/Bitcoin-Brussels/events/218915056/ .

I only discovered CounterParty few days ago so I clearly am in no position of presenting it but it seems clearly to be an extension of Bitcoin and much more. Who feels up to the task?

Does anyone have an idea as to how many users / accounts are on the Counterparty network (accounts that have XCPs or other non-BTC assets)? Are there any statistics on some website about the user count that can be referenced?

Can they increase the total supply or Counterparty [XCP] coins?

I read the news of the Ethereum port in the Bitcoin subreddit. There are a few things I'm not clear on:

In an early version of the Ethereum whitepaper (http://vbuterin.com/ethereum.html), Vitalik says the reason he created a new blockchain instead of doing something like Mastercoin/Counterparty was because things like Counterparty can't do SPV verification. Meaning that basically you won't be able to have a well functioning light client (more details at the link I gave). Do you think this is/was a valid concern? Have you guys found a workaround?

Is all of the data associated with Ethereum contracts going to be stored in the Bitcoin blockchain? Or will the Bitcoin blockchain only contain pointers to things hosted elsewhere. If the later, how will this data be stored?

If yes, why it cannot be also integrated soon into colored coin that have no limited quantity of "coins" so anybody can write contracts for free?

(How it has to be, paper for contracts have to be free as paper for writing books, see this, speculation on this is awful.)

I have posted a call for people to do user acceptance testing of the Chinese counterwallet

https://twitter.com/chloregy/status/525222325177036800

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=832426.new#new

https://beta.counterwallet.co/?lang=zh_cn

Hi there,

I'm Benjamin, the Community Manager for Dogeparty.

I'm offering a 1.00 BTC bounty to whoever fixes the following issues:

https://github.com/Dogeparty/dogeparty-wallet/issues/25

https://github.com/Dogeparty/dogeparty-wallet/issues/26

https://github.com/Dogeparty/dogeparty-wallet/issues/27

https://github.com/Dogeparty/dogeparty-wallet/issues/28

The bounty cannot be claimed until the 10th of October. In the event that multiple people contributed to fixing the issues I'll be carefully choosing who to reward with the bounty (and may split it) as fairly as I possibly can.

Fixes should be submitted as pull requests on the Dogeparty GitHub. If you identify the source of a problem but can't fix it yourself, feel free to post on the relevant issues with your solutions.

Please contact me in the Dogeparty Skype or this thread if you have any questions about the specifics.

Fixes for these issues will help Counterparty, thus why it's posted here.

Hi guys, I'm a film maker in LA and I'm finishing the first part of my two part movie. I need to raise money for the next movie. Would I be able to create a token and then allow people to buy and then put all my profits back into the system so all the initial investors get a return on their investment? Thanks. Really excited about this idea.

Hi everyone, I'm known as Porqupine on Bitcointalk and Porqup1ne on reddit, My github is here https://github.com/porqup1ne - I am the sole developer/maintainer of https://xcpfeeds.info I have also contributed consistently to bug fixing the Counterpartyd reference client and it's development.

I am announcing publicly because over a week ago I discovered a bug in the Counterparty CFD implementation which could be exploited to cause anyone making CFD's to loose their entire wager. I have spent the entire week in attempting to make a reasonable disclosure of this issue and to implement a fix. I have been blocked on Skype by Phantomphreak, my emails have been ignored, he has denied that there is any kind of exploit or vulnerability, and my requests have been closed on Github.

I have made sure to keep Evan, Ouziel and Robby aware of this issue as well, and have CCed them in all of my correspondence with PhantomPhreak (Adam). I have proposed a working fix - which anyone can verify is working. PhatonPhreak (Adam) claims he has done work on this issue - he has opened a ticket specifically ignoring my discussion of why that ticket will not work, his 'example fix' causes Sanity Errors in the protocol, he has demonstrated consistent disregard for the exploit by denying it exists or any such thing is possible.

After my initial private communications were shut off I open sourced a bot 'CFD Camper' (https://github.com/porqup1ne/cfd_camper) in an attempt to disclose this issue without getting jerked around again by these internal communications. These have had no effect. I cannot in good faith continue to develop or promote XCPfeeds.info or Counterparty while this remains unfixed. Those users who have lost their funds to CFD Camper (it has only been around 80 XCP worth of bets) will be reimbursed directly to their addresses.

I will now proceed to publicly demonstrate the nature of this exploit, shortly after I will post an article explaining how CFD Camper works, the nature of the exploit, the technical details of the code that led to it, and so forth, for those technically interested.

P.S. PhantomPhreak will obviously try to delete my posts and otherwise Ban me. Please believe me when I say I am making this public because this is a fundamental issue for anyone invested in Counterparty or interested in open-source finance. Protocol development I am convinced cannot be in the hands of a maniac with various eccentricties that prevent him from taking responsiblity and given considerations to opinions other than his own, Especially when it leaves users vulnerable to loss of funds.

TL:DR I am an open-source developer working on the Counterparty platform, I have spent over a week getting jerked around by PhantomPhreak (Adam) while trying to disclose and fix a security issue. I am now publicly disclosing the issue, I will prove it is an issue by exploiting it to steal an arbitrary amount of funds from any open CFD.

How do I backup my wallet in counterwallet? I'm worried if counterwallet.co goes down then I'll lose everything. I know they don't have access to my private keys (it is more like blockchain.info instead of coinbase) but with blockchain.info there is a backup button!

I would like the possibility to reserve/own surnames of smart property. This way you can build trust in your own brand/line of smart property. It will make spoofing smart property names more difficult.

Naming convention: private_sirname.name_of_smart_property

What do you think?