From: bgroff@lavabit.com
To: "Gavin Andresen" <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Development priorities
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:05:59 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14784.137.56.163.46.1308279959.squirrel@lavabit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimZ5j7=1G89uRO9f7fHPdmDMpLMqg@mail.gmail.com>
> 1) Scaling-up issues, like disconnections when downloading the block
> chain.
>
> 2) Wallet security.
>
> 3) Unit testing framework. There was a PULL that had the start of
> boost unit tests; I think that is a critical need, along with a good
> suite of test cases.
I agree that these are critical and I'd love to help, especially on #2 and
#3. #3 will, by necessity, include a thorough review of the code, which
may uncover latent issues.
I think that for #2 it would also be good to publish a "Best security
practices" document to try and educate the user base.
> Those are the big issues for me. Anything that slows those down I'm
> going to ignore (example: love the idea of escrow transactions, but I
> do NOT want to add nifty new features when we're having trouble
> keeping the features we're using now working properly).
That is understandable. However, something to think about later is that
multi-signature coins can help with #2, even with compromised end-user
machines.
--
Bobby Groff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-17 3:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-16 16:32 [Bitcoin-development] Development priorities Gavin Andresen
2011-06-16 17:12 ` Luke-Jr
2011-06-16 17:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2011-06-16 18:18 ` Luke-Jr
2011-06-16 18:24 ` phantomcircuit
2011-06-17 3:05 ` bgroff [this message]
2011-06-19 14:26 ` Mike Hearn
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