this is really cool leo. thanks for sharing. i'll definitely give it a try.
/manik On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Leo Arias <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > It has never been easier, snapcraft and profit! > > For a couple of weeks we have been figuring out how to confine > bitcoin. This is one of the most important use cases of the snap > security because you don't want any program messing with your digital > wallet. And when there's a vulnerability in the code, all the clients > should be updated as fast as possible to keep the network sane. With > snaps, just push a fixed version and see everybody update without any > work from their side. > > We now need help testing the snap before making it public: > > $ sudo snap install bitcoin --candidate > > Then launch it from the dash or running the bitcoin.qt command. > > This was built from the tag of the latest released bitcoin and pushed > to the store, all automatically by travis. But, be warned, you will be > the first users so we might still find unforeseen problems. Use your > bitcoins with caution during the candidate phase, or just test without > any of your money. > > Here are the sources for the snap and CI scripts, in case you want to > verify them or build it yourself: > https://github.com/elopio/blockchain-snaps/blob/master/ > bitcoin/snap/snapcraft.yaml > > Another interesting detail is that most of the cryptocurrencies out > there are forks of the bitcoin source code, so they will all need a > similar snapcraft.yaml. The other one we pushed is bitcoin-unlimited, > which is promoting a hard fork of the bitcoin network to remove the > block size limit. You can have both snaps installed to give them a try > and choose the network you want to support, because both will be fully > confined and independent: > > $ sudo snap install bitcoin-unlimited --candidate > > Of course, this would require twice the time and space to download > both blockchains. > > Thanks to Gal Buki (torusJKL) for his help. > > Expect more options in the store soon. > > pura vida > -- > ¡paz y baile! > http://www.ubuntu.com > > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/snapcraft > -- Snapcraft mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft
