Counterparty is a freely licensed and open-source platform for peer-to-peer finance that lives on the Bitcoin blockchain. The network has been live since January, and it has seen over 130k transactions since then.[1] Overstock.com recently announced that it would be building the world's first SEC-regulated stock market for cryptosecurities on our platform.[2]
The non-profit Counterparty Foundation is hiring a developer to join a team of two (myself and one other) dedicated to further developing the Counterparty Protocol and software ecosystem (e.g. wallet software, block explorers). Experience with Python is strongly preferred, as much of the work will be with the protocol's reference implementation, counterpartyd.[3]
It goes without saying that this is an unconventional position requiring a great deal of independence, self-direction and creativity. More details about the position: http://counterparty.io/jobs
Counterparty is a freely licensed and open-source platform for peer-to-peer finance that lives on the Bitcoin blockchain. The network has been live since January, and it has seen over 100k transactions since then.[1] Overstock.com recently announced that it would be building the world's first SEC-regulated stock market for cryptosecurities on our platform.[2]
The non-profit Counterparty Foundation is hiring a developer to join a team of two (myself and one other) dedicated to further developing the Counterparty Protocol and software ecosystem (e.g. wallet software, block explorers). Experience with Python is strongly preferred, as much of the work will be with the protocol's reference implementation, counterpartyd.[3]
It goes without saying that this is an unconventional position requiring a great deal of independence, self-direction and creativity. More details about the position: http://counterparty.io/jobs
Counterparty is a freely licensed and open-source platform for peer-to-peer finance that lives on the Bitcoin blockchain. The network has been live since January, and it has seen over 90k transactions since then.[1] Overstock.com recently announced that it would be building the world's first SEC-regulated stock market for cryptosecurities on our platform.[2]
The non-profit Counterparty Foundation is hiring a developer to join a team of two (myself and one other) dedicated to further developing the Counterparty Protocol and software ecosystem (e.g. wallet software, block explorers). Experience with Python is strongly preferred, as much of the work will be with the protocol's reference implementation, counterpartyd.[3]
It goes without saying, this is an unconventional position requiring a great deal of independence, self-direction and creativity.
Quite generally, Counterparty functionality that requires the use of XCP simply can't exist on platforms without their own currency. That's why it's there.
Exactly. All bets are matched and all fees are handled by the Counterparty protocol. The only thing that XBet.io does is broadcast the results of the games (and provide a nice UI for making bets on those future broadcasts).
Bitcoins were sent by the Bitcoin community to an unspendable address (1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr, which has no knowable private key), and the Counterparty protocol detects this and creates XCP in proportion to the destroyed bitcoins, crediting them to the sending address. (This was only for the month of January... don't send any bitcoins to that address now!)
Every Bitcoin address includes a checksum at the end, so while you can make up any address like in this example, the checksum still needs to be correct in order to form a valid address.
It's a great feature against typos, btw.
Hi, all! I'm one of the developers of this project, and I'm also a long-time Hacker News reader. If you have any questions about Counterparty, please don't hesitate to ask! Better yet, if you think you might want to build something on top of Counterparty (which is a totally open platform), we welcome all contributions to any of our GitHub repositories (https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/).
Counterparty is a freely licensed and open-source platform for peer-to-peer finance that lives on the Bitcoin blockchain. The network has been live since January, and it has seen over 130k transactions since then.[1] Overstock.com recently announced that it would be building the world's first SEC-regulated stock market for cryptosecurities on our platform.[2]
The non-profit Counterparty Foundation is hiring a developer to join a team of two (myself and one other) dedicated to further developing the Counterparty Protocol and software ecosystem (e.g. wallet software, block explorers). Experience with Python is strongly preferred, as much of the work will be with the protocol's reference implementation, counterpartyd.[3]
It goes without saying that this is an unconventional position requiring a great deal of independence, self-direction and creativity. More details about the position: http://counterparty.io/jobs
Contact: adamk@counterparty.io
Web Wallet: https://counterwallet.io
[1] - https://blockscan.com
[2] - http://www.coindesk.com/overstock-hires-counterparty-develop....
[3] - https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/counterpartyd