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From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com>
To: "Jorge Timón" <jtimon@monetize.io>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Plans to separate wallet from core
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:43:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJCpUzasKD8KYbweTu25SyXAJAx31TmfYj2iHG2fN62AFA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC1+kJPycskhv7m=ygEO1htryWRju4bdzWOFfZ3cEu_uKX2k2w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Jorge Timón <jtimon@monetize.io> wrote:
>
> I think he means that the wallet shouldn't be running as much as it is
> currently doing.
> But yes, I think you're right about wallets and GUIs not necessarily
> mapping 1:1.

I haven't been talking about the GUI at all in this entire
conversation. When I say wallet, I mean the wallet code. There are
very few reasons for running a wallet 24/7. One could be if you're
running an exchange that has to send and receive transactions all the
time.

But that's an exception - in the usual merchant/end-user case you're
mostly receiving transactions and sometimes manually or batched-
sending them. No need to leave the wallet running, exposed to the
network outside those times.

How the wallet GUI (if any) relates to the wallet code is a completely
different topic, and a much less pressing matter. Anything from 'GUI
uses wallet as a library' (multibit, electrum, bitcoin core) to
elaborate client-server protocols (btcd, coinvault?) are acceptable
depending on the use case.

Wladimir



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-25  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-23  9:50 [Bitcoin-development] Plans to separate wallet from core 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 [this message]
2014-06-24  9:11     ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24  9:40       ` Wladimir
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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