From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Plans to separate wallet from core
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:40:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJDxLdKvtEE72B4biJ+1s3Yurm6ZHEaRi8H8nGMDo+vNiw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP1bNs4ahMzd7AfSH3P39Cx1rkmCkjnOMOM9T2Anr5wVOw@mail.gmail.com>
> The question is; what does this buy us, and is it worth the potentially huge
> amount of time it could take? My gut feeling is we have bigger fish to fry.
> There's plenty of work to do just on the core consensus code, making Bitcoin
> Core into a competitive wallet as well would be an additional burden.
I don't intend to work on that myself but that's up to the people that
want to contribute to that. Once it's a separate project it could
either be a big success, or it could slowly wither away. It can have a
release cycle separate from the node. Likely faster.
The organizational reason to split off the wallet is to get rid of
that responsibility (and code) from the bitcoind repo. Maintaining a
wallet should not be part of maintaining the core infrastructure. But
just deleting it would be unreasonable.
> However I may be quite biased, as I am the maintainer of what is primarily a wallet library :)
Hah. I've thought about that migration path as well.
From my experience the main thing people are missing with BitcoinJ is
a quick and easy way to set up a wallet as a daemon, to use the
functionality from non-java through RPC.
But there are other interesting upcoming wallet projects as well, for
example CoinVault.
Wladimir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-24 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-23 9:50 Jorge Timón
2014-06-23 10:32 ` Wladimir
2014-06-23 20:15 ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-24 9:07 ` Wladimir
2014-06-24 9:44 ` Wladimir
2014-06-24 13:24 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2014-06-24 15:33 ` Justus Ranvier
2014-06-24 16:40 ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-25 5:43 ` Wladimir
2014-06-24 9:11 ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 9:40 ` Wladimir [this message]
2014-06-24 10:12 ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 11:29 ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-24 11:48 ` Tamas Blummer
2014-06-24 13:26 ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-24 13:37 ` Pieter Wuille
2014-06-24 11:58 ` Wladimir
2014-06-24 12:16 ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 12:41 ` Wladimir
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