On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
Hey Jonas,

I think your analysis of what (some) users need is a good one.

We've discussed this before so I know you prefer your current approach, but I personally would take a slightly different path to reach the same end:
  1. Support serving of SPV wallets from pruned storage. This means some protocol upgrades, BIPs, etc. It helps all SPV wallets, including on phones.
  2. Then make a bitcoinj based desktop wallet app, that contains a bundled bitcoind.
It makes a lot of sense to have single set of reference implementations for the different components. So unless you also support something you have not explicitly stated - get rid of bitcoin-qt in its current form, the above does not meet the spirit of Jonas' original post - which makes a load of sense to me.