=== To produce a bitcoin application ===

This will be a web application, written in ruby (using appropriate technologies)
that can be run standalone, for a single user on their home machine, or on a web
server for many users.

Needs to be feature-complete by comparison to the official bitcoin client, with
the exception of block generation - we're not bothering with that aspect at all
right now. Also needs feature parity with mybitcoin.com

List:
  - Multiple users
  - Each user has a wallet
  - Ability to receive payments
  - Transaction history
  - Ability to make payments, specify fee per-payment
  - Able to take part in the global bitcoin network as a full member.
  - Shopping cart integration
  - On-the-fly currency comparison 
  - Payment forwarding
  - API access via the JSON-RPC specification to control the account

Also needs *extra* features

  - Only one block chain for all users in the cluster (faster startup time)
  - (mybitcoin) : open-source, run it for yourself if you want to!
  - britcoin, bitmarket, mtgox integration
  - Address book
  - Support for sending payments to email addresses - use webfinger to resolve
  - Simpler REST API

=== Technology ===

Runtime: Ruby 1.9.2-p180
Web server: Thin
Templating: haml, sass, coffeescript
ORM: ActiveRecord
Live action: SSE (depends: thin-async)
Key generation: OpenSSL
Database: standalone: SQLite3/SQLCipher. All-in: postgres/mysql
Bitcoin network peer: event-machine, bit-struct