Temporary (alpha) fix for Badger Wallet being discontinued after the upcoming May upgrade

Just saw that the Badger Wallet will no longer be supported (presumably due to the BCash client not keeping up with the upcoming network upgrade). We at Bitcoin Bay had developed a fork of the Badger Wallet, loosely named OPTN, replacing BitBox-SDK with Permissionless Software Foundation's BCH-JS library. BCH-JS defaults to connecting with a Fullstack.cash BCHN full node (I believe it should be compatible with the BU client as well).

We have an early release of the CashScript integration we had been working prior to COVID which people can find and download from our GitHub page – https://github.com/BitcoinBay/OPTN-Wallet/releases

The CashScript integration is still just in demo phase, so it is not guaranteed to send properly. But regular features, like SLP tokens, should still function as expected. Indexing for the SLP tokens will take a bit of time as it is still using the legacy SLPDB indexer.

We at Bitcoin Bay had started with a rewrite of the Badger wallet due to a lot of outdated infrastructure popping up during development. Some may recall we tried doing a Flipstarter campaign a few months back on OPTN, which unfortunately didn't get much traction, and thus we decided to put the rewrite effort on the back burner for the time being. For reference, here's the repo for our rewrite efforts https://github.com/BitcoinBay/rewriteOptn

We still have plans to support the wallet moving forward, the main challenge is securing enough funding to hire a small dedicated team of developers (2~4 people) for the wallet. We're also exploring a seed-round investment to jumpstart the development, so if enough people are interested in seeing the Badger Wallet be maintained moving forward, it would help with the pitch to potential investors.

Temporary (alpha) fix for Badger Wallet being discontinued after the upcoming May upgrade