Somebody suggested to write a step by step tutorial for the bitcoin browser wallet. Thats a great idea so i do it here: Get It First you need to got to the chrome web store and install the extension. Once thats done (which happens in seconds) You need to generate an address and a private key, or import one you have.
Quick links Github Chrome Web-Store (automatic updates) I follow bitcoin since march 2012 and i’m very much convinced by its superiority to other payment systems and currencies. Bitcoin rose 2012 from 20 to 1200 USD and we will probably see more heights this year. One of the biggest stoppers for bitcoin, in my opinion right now, is the missing of easy tools. Tools which make payments in every day life as simple or simpler than credit cards or paypal. I was surprised that i couldn’t find any simple browser based plugin, as the browser would be for me the most natural place to put a wallet. Because your can use …
Looks awesome to me! Ok i don’t like the design, but conceptually very smart. If you want to support it got to thunderclap and share it on facebook, twitter or tumblr.
When your’e interested in bitcoin, you probably heard that most of the big bitcoin businesses including The Bitcoin Foundation got invited by FinCEN, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. I just found an report by one of the speakers Marco Santori, Lawyer and Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation’s Regulatory Affairs Committee on bitcointalk.org, so i want to quote it here:
While working on the TunedIn web App i came across an issue with SVG. As we want to be retina ready and be able to easily switch colors of icons. We decided to use SVG for our icons. This worked well as SVG is nicely embeddable into HTML. By using the svg.whateverClass { fill: #fff; } css property you can change the color of the icon or add shadows and stroke colors. This worked all nicely until i had a lot of elements repeating the same SVG icons. I use chrome as my development browser (which is quite fast) so it took a while for me to notice. But as …