From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Roadmap to getting users onto SPV clients
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 18:46:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP3=GdyTe+2=cp-ROOJ8_t=yCqO-7GQ4hA-3aksg46p+ww@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
At the moment if you visit bitcoin.org then you're recommended to
download the full client. I think we all agree that at some point we
need to start presenting users with something more like this:
To get started, download wallet apps A or B.
If you'd like to contribute your computing resources to the Bitcoin
network and have a fast computer with an unfiltered internet
connection, download:
- for desktop machines, Bitcoin-Qt
- for servers, bitcoind
Obviously not that exact wording.
I personally feel it's a bit early for this, but it's true that users
are being turned away by the fact that they're pointed to Bitcoin-Qt
by default, so having some kind of roadmap or plan for changing that
would be good.
I think MultiBit is maturing into a client that I'd feel comfortable
recommending to end users who take the fast-start path, though it
still has a few serious lacks (encrypted wallets aren't released yet,
bloom filters will help performance a lot, needs to catch up with some
newer features). But there doesn't have to be a one true client.
The alternative, I guess, is to make Bitcoin-Qt have an SPV mode. I'm
not convinced this is the best use of time, but if somebody steps up
to do it, that could also work. MultiBit has some unique features that
are quite useful like integrating charting and exchange rate feeds.
What does everyone think on this?
next reply other threads:[~2012-12-04 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-04 17:46 Mike Hearn [this message]
2012-12-04 18:03 ` Alan Reiner
2012-12-04 18:08 ` Will
2012-12-04 18:17 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-12-04 20:58 ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-04 21:41 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-12-04 22:44 ` Alan Reiner
2012-12-05 0:27 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-12-05 2:08 ` Alan Reiner
2012-12-05 2:54 ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-12-05 5:38 ` Jim Nguyen
2012-12-05 7:50 ` Wladimir
2012-12-05 9:43 ` Gary Rowe
2012-12-05 10:19 ` Robert Backhaus
2012-12-05 10:43 ` Mike Hearn
2012-12-04 18:57 ` Mark Friedenbach
2012-12-04 19:36 ` Gregory Maxwell
[not found] <mailman.70419.1354648162.2176.bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
2012-12-04 19:56 ` Jim
2012-12-04 22:23 ` slush
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