From: Jim <jim618@fastmail•co.uk>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: MultiBit as default desktop client on bitcoin.org
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:40:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1372362018.21506.140661249289441.6E1B5441@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1372360716.14869.140661249272837.1376DACB@webmail.messagingengine.com>
RE: 141.101.113.245
http://whois.domaintools.com/141.101.113.245
gives it as CloudFlare - I suspect it is protecting
Mt Gox when we make our get for currency ticker info.
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013, at 08:18 PM, Jim wrote:
> A few replies, in order of point raised:
>
> Jeff:
> Arguments against multibit default:
> * Less testing, field experience on desktop
>
> Yes this is true - downloads of multibit have typically been around
> 1/7th to 1/5th of bitcoin-QT downloads. It helps of course that
> the bitcoinj networking/ object model is also used by Andreas
> as you note.
>
>
> Greg:
> I think Mike has squashed the deadlocking problems with reentrant
> locks (primarily in the Wallet). I haven't seen one in at least a month.
>
> We discussed proxy support on the bitcoinj mailing list a while ago
> and at the time the stumbling block was the Java library used for
> the networking (Netty) did not support it. Mike or Miron would
> know better than I if this is still the case.
>
> Change address behaviour will improve significantly when HD
> wallet support goes into multibit/ bitcoinj (I am hoping to get my
> bit done over the summer). Matija Mazi has been working on a
> Java impl of HD wallets so it is coming down the pipe but
> there is a lot to do yet.
>
> Connections out from MultiBit are:
> + 4 bitcoind nodes on port 8333
> + multibit.org (188.138.113.201) for help, current version info
> (and probably more in future)
> + the currency ticker will make HTTP gets to the source of
> whichever exchange(s) you have set up e.g MtGox, CampBX.
> This calls should disappear if you switch the currency conversion
> and ticker off.
>
> I think that is all the connections out I make.
>
> Mainly due to the exchanges abruptly changing their APIs and
> breaking things we are planning to put in intermediate
> "Exchange Data Provider" servers. Tim Molter is working on this
> in his XChange project. That will enable us to patch the server
> when things change and the multibits in the field won't be
> affected. There will probably be a couple of these initially
> for redundancy.
>
> Alex: Yes I think most users migrate to blockchain.info or,
> more recently coinbase.com. They are both good wallets
> but I'd like to keep Bitcoin as P2P as possible.
>
> Luke-Jr
> I think you are right here on the number of full nodes versus
> SPV nodes.
> I don't think we even know yet what are the working ratios of
> full nodes to SPV nodes. I haven't seen anybody do any
> analysis on this.
>
> I doubt multibit will ever participate in the Bitcoin network
> other than as an SPV client. All the optimisation is to reduce
> data traffic - it is effectively a mobile wallet that happens to
> live on a desktop. It is not really intended to be more than
> "a wallet for regular people to store and spend their bitcoin".
>
> In English the nomenclature for direction of the transactions
> is: "Sent to" and "Received with". To be honest I
> haven't transliterated the localisation files to check other
> language packs but the localisers are pretty good in my
> experience.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013, at 07:41 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr•org> wrote:
> > > On Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:30:21 PM Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >> * Very real possibility of an overall net reduction of full nodes on P2P
> > >> network
> > > Even a reduction of *nodes at all*, as I've never seen a listening bitcoinj or
> > > MultiBit node. :/
> > > Jim, will MultiBit be adding p2p listening support?
> >
> > Without validation listening isn't currently very useful. :( Maybe it
> > could be somewhat more with some protocol additions.
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-27 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-27 17:10 Jim
2013-06-27 17:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-06-27 18:04 ` Luke-Jr
2013-06-27 18:41 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-06-27 19:18 ` Jim
2013-06-27 19:40 ` Jim [this message]
2013-06-27 19:50 ` Jim
2013-06-27 21:12 ` Alex Kravets
2013-06-27 21:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-06-27 22:53 ` Alex Kravets
2013-06-27 22:03 ` Gary Rowe
2013-06-28 10:59 ` John Dillon
2013-06-28 9:10 ` Mike Hearn
2013-06-28 14:24 ` Gavin Andresen
[not found] ` <CAFtwHRewE0wgvWsf-785hpCb8ns7wiGaKHAQ-1QmDD-W+diBJA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-06-28 20:37 ` Bill Hees
2013-06-28 20:42 ` Jim
2013-06-30 11:42 ` Mike Hearn
2013-06-30 15:19 ` Jim
2013-06-30 16:39 ` Gary Rowe
2013-07-09 0:22 ` Robert Backhaus
2013-07-09 1:20 ` Caleb James DeLisle
2013-07-09 10:36 ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-09 10:56 ` Jim
2013-07-09 11:04 ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-09 11:13 ` Will
2013-07-09 11:15 ` Jim
2013-07-09 11:18 ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-09 14:00 ` Daniel F
2013-07-09 14:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-07-09 14:28 ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-09 14:46 ` Jim
2013-07-09 14:57 ` Daniel F
2013-07-09 15:27 ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-09 15:32 ` Nick Simpson
2013-07-09 15:51 ` Johnathan Corgan
2013-07-09 16:44 ` Mike Hearn
2013-07-09 15:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-07-09 16:03 ` Nick Simpson
2013-07-09 22:15 ` Andreas Petersson
2013-06-27 17:56 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-06-27 18:05 ` Alex Kravets
2013-06-27 23:45 ` Caleb James DeLisle
2013-06-28 9:05 ` Mike Hearn
2013-06-28 10:09 ` John Dillon
2013-06-28 10:20 ` Mike Hearn
2013-06-28 10:32 ` John Dillon
2013-06-30 10:12 ` Peter Todd
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