Bit My Message Hosted by Gareth Davies and Joe Ressington The Mind Tech Podcast is your weekly dose of tech, privacy, security and conspiracy. Each week we'll talk about the very latest tech news and the continued threats to internet freedom. Mind Tech News: Online pornography to be blocked by default, PM announces Raising money for the Ubuntu Edge Ubuntu Forums Hacked, 1.8 Million Passwords, E-Mails & Usernames Stolen The Drobo Website Android gets an Update Bitmessage In Windows just download the exe and run it. In Ubuntu (or Mint) you just need 3 commands: sudo apt-get install python openssl git python-qt4 and git clone https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage $HOME/PyBitmessage and cd $HOME/PyBitmessage/src/ && python bitmessagemain.py Mac Bitmessage is awesome. However, the installation process isn't particularly intuitive on the Mac. I just got it working on OSX, and thought I'd share my findings. First, make sure you have git and Homebrew installed. Then, you need to make sure homebrew is working. Open Terminal, and run Code: brew doctor and fix anything critical that it returns. Now, install the dependencies. You will need to update Python to 2.7.3. You probably have 2.7.2 at the moment. Run Code: brew install python to update to the correct version. In order for Bitmessage to run, you also need OpenSSL and PyQt. Install these with Code: brew install pyqt openssl Now, you're ready to actually download the Bitmessage source code. First, cd to your desktop or wherever you want to install it. Then, run Code: git clone git://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage.git to download it from GitHub. Now, cd into PyBitmessage src folder, and enter Code: python bitmessagemain.py The Bitmessage UI should open. At this point you can minimize the terminal window, which should be spewing a ton of info. It works! However, it's inconvenient to run these two commands every time we want to run bitmessage. It's extremely easy to create a script to run it for us. To do this, open textedit and enter Code: python ~/Desktop/PyBitmessage/src/bitmessagemain.py You may need to adjust the path to wherever you installed it. Now, save it as Bitmessage.command. To make it executable enter Code: chmod +x but do not press enter. Hit space and drag the Bitmessage.command file into the Terminal window. Now hit enter, and the file will be executable. Contact us via Bitmessage!  Here's our address: BM-2D827QEqWztqKZaRW4xkL8z7WPGu3qryyM The Mind Set Facebook group The Mind Set Google+ group Support Mind Set Central Suscribe or donate