Alert system should be upgraded to pop up a dialog box every 30 minutes whilst you&#39;re using the software.<div><br></div><div>Bitcoin is one of the few pieces of software I use that has no concept of automatic updates or even notifications at all. Yet the network badly relies on people upgrading for stability, scalability and to enable new features.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>If the alert system goes away, it&#39;d just end up being replaced by polling something over HTTP, which is less decentralized than before. Having zero way to communicate upgrades to end-users is a non-starter for anything serious about mass market penetration.</div>