From: Robert Backhaus <robbak@robbak•com>
To: Bitcoin Development List <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: MultiBit as default desktop client on bitcoin.org
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 10:22:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+i0-i9tj8w7pNuk7nUBQKdxvizX+6_Ez1VA8OtKJNTqRrYtxg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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But... Multibit is Java. Java's security problems has made it an instant
uninstall item on windows PCs for about a year now. Java exploits are a
dime a dozen.
Yes, you can reduce some of the problems by manually disabling the browser
plugin, but how many users will do that?
Recommending a fast SPV client as a first wallet - yes, of course.
Recommending users open such a huge attack interface on their computers by
installing Java - No go. Until Multibit is provided as a compiled binary
without a Java dependency, it is DOA.
On 1 July 2013 02:39, Gary Rowe <g.rowe@froot•co.uk> wrote:
> I've beefed up the supporting documentation for the website to make it
> more accessible for developers who wish to contribute. It's a Java
> application serving HTML.
>
> It can be found here: https://github.com/jim618/multibit-website
>
>
> On 30 June 2013 16:19, Jim <jim618@fastmail•co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Yeah "email jim' was never going to work so I have
>> bumped up MultiBit support (a bit) by:
>>
>> + having a dedicated Support page on the website
>> https://multibit.org/support.html
>> It has fixes and support notes for the most common gotchas.
>> + the in-app help also now has a 'Support' section with
>> "Troubleshooting' and the commonest gotchas.
>> I've also written more help to cover as much as possible.
>> + Failing that people are directed first to bitcoin.stackchange.com
>> (I have a notification set up for the 'multibit' keyword.
>> + Then finally users are directed to the github issues to search
>> existing or raise a new issue. Gary and Tim often chip in on there to
>> close
>> issues down as well as me.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
>> > Sounds like we have consensus, Saivann, shall we do it?
>> >
>> > I'm also going to ask Theymos again to relax the newbie restrictions
>> > for the alt client forums. It's probably too hard to get support at
>> > the moment and "email jim" doesn't scale at all.
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Gavin Andresen <
>> gavinandresen@gmail•com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > I vote "yes" to have MultiBit replace Bitcoin-Qt as the recommended
>> > > desktop wallet app. I think most users will be happier with it.
>> > >
>> > > If I'm wrong, it is easy to change back.
>> > >
>> > >
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>> https://multibit.org Money, reinvented
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-09 0:52 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
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 [this message]
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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