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@OleksandrAAA OleksandrAAA commented Mar 25, 2025

Summary:

This PR adds Chesscoin, a Qt-based application packaged as an AppImage, to Pi-Apps.

About Chesscoin:

  • Chesscoin is a cryptocurrency wallet for Raspberry Pi.
  • The application is tested and working on Raspberry Pi 5 (64-bit) running Raspberry Pi OS.

Installation Details:

  • The install script copies the AppImage to /opt and creates a .desktop entry.
  • The uninstall script removes all installed files.

Why Add Chesscoin to Pi-Apps?

  • Provides a useful feature for Raspberry Pi users.
  • Fully self-contained, requiring no additional dependencies.
  • Verified to work on Raspberry Pi OS with Qt 5.

Let me know if any changes are needed. Thanks for reviewing this PR!

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Botspot commented Mar 25, 2025

I have never heard of Chesscoin, and I doubt more than 10 pi-apps users have ever heard of it either. What's the purpose of this tool, apart from being a wallet for a random cryptocurrency? Please explain why anyone would want this. Is it used in chess tournaments somehow? I had a hard time finding any meaningful information about the project.

@OleksandrAAA OleksandrAAA force-pushed the master branch 2 times, most recently from 49e283e to 40f0098 Compare March 26, 2025 10:45
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Whitepaper ChessCoin 032 with watermark.pdf

I attached our whitepaper regarding chesscoin, hope you will take a look at the pdf file.
Previously, we distributed with .AppImage file, but we were fascinated by the features of pi-apps and decided to distribute using pi-apps.
We are going to use pi-apps in the future...

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Botspot commented Mar 28, 2025

The description needs some work. The first line is the tooltip - a message that appears when hove3ring the mouse over the app name. Right now the tooltip would be the website URL, which is unhelpful. Also the description should do more than tell the user how to run it, it should explain who might need this app and what it is used for, in simple terms. For some reason many people struggle to write a good description, and I would be happy to help, but I still have no grasp on what this actually does or what to use it for.

Look to other app descriptions for inspiration.

Also somehow you have both a install and install-64 scrip[t. My guess is that if this app is 64bit-only, you just need to remove the install script. Easy fix.

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AKKPP commented Mar 29, 2025

CHESSCOIN 0.32% is a Hard Fork (2019) by Chesscoin (2016) and was made to keep -save -get and appled (who wrote the code of chesscoin is unknown... Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the code for Bitcoin and maybe so wrote the code for Chesscoin?)
In this blockexplorer you will find more infos:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/chess/

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we removed install script file as you recommend

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