Dec 17, 2018

Hello Everyone I posted to this Slack channel a while ago about the research I am currently conducting related to the usability of Bitcoin APIs. As I had mentioned, I am specifically looking into libbitcoin. This mainly for two reasons: on the one hand, C++ is the programming language I am most familiar with. On the other hand, the other noteworthy C++ implementation, i.e. Bitcoin Core, does not offer a C++ API per se (but an RPC JSON API, as I am sure all of you know). Although I am also planning to evaluate Bitcoin Core's C++ implementation if time allows, my research is primarily focusing on libbitcoin. I am studying for a Master in Computer and Information Security at the University of Liverpool and this is my final research project. This is an online programme; I am actually living in Switzerland. My project requires me to have an expert review my findings. I am, therefore, asking if one of the libbitcoin contributors among you would be willing to spend one to two hours of your time to review the relevant chapters of my dissertation and provide written feedback for me to cite in the dissertation report. My dissertation is due 6th of March 2019. I am planning to finish the chapters related to the libbitcoin API evaluation sometime in January 2019 but should be able to provide a draft by the end of the year. Your review would be required to reach me towards the end of January 2019. While I cannot offer any compensation for your help, I can offer to send pull requests related to any of my findings for you to merge or ignore at your discretion. Please let me know if you have further questions about my research. Thanks! Philipp