On 06/27/2013 01:56 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Jim <jim...@fastmail.co.uk> wrote: >> Let me know if you think this is a good idea (or not!) >> and if you have any questions. > > Being able to promote a fast SPV desktop wallet would be great! > > I went through an cycle of testing on multibit after I saw some > complaints when it went up on the page before without at lot of > discussion. There were a number of issues with it at the time, in > particular the frequent deadlocks— though Mike was saying that those > should be fixed. > > I see some of the the other things that were concerning for me at the > time are still uncorrected though, e.g. no proxy support (so users > can't follow our recommended best practices of using it with Tor),
If I were a Bitcoin dev, I would not want to talk about anonymity or TOR because that's likely to attract people with paranoid dilutions and they're really terrible users to support :) Also yay for promoting fast, easy to use clients for casual users! Thanks, Caleb > that it reuses addresses (esp for change), that it doesn't clearly > distinguish confirmation level. It also make repeated https > connections to 141.101.113.245? (I'm not seeing the IP in the source, > and it doesn't have a useful reverse dns entry, so I can't tell what > its for). Is there any timeframe for changing any of this stuff? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
