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From: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 2.0 has been tagged
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:51:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mdsn73$qpn$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAt2M1_zVXnp_EjtZHiP9wSq+cERgibZ_C992zZHtv+Lpmgsfw@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/12/2015 07:27 PM, Natanael wrote:
> 
> Den 12 mar 2015 17:48 skrev "Mike Hearn" <mike@plan99.net
> <mailto:mike@plan99.net>>:
>>>
>>> b) "Creation date" is just a short-term hack.
>>
>>
>> I agree, but we need things to be easy in the short term as well as
> the long term :) 
>>
>> The long term solution is clearly to have the 12 word seed be an
> encryption key for a wallet backup with all associated metadata. We're
> heading in that direction one step at a time. Unfortunately it will take
> time for wallets to start working this way, and all the pieces to fall
> into place. Restoring from the block chain will be a semi regular
> operation for users until then.
> 
> This have been mentioned a few times before, and what I think is
> necessary is to create a common file format that can be interpreted by a
> library which all wallets can use. I see it as similar as the work to
> create libconsensus for parsing the blockchain.


I'm afraid this will never fly. Wallets are just too different and
that's a good thing! For example, by design choice Bitcoin Wallet and
bitcoinj doesn't support multiple accounts. How would it ever import
wallets from MultiBit or Mycelium?

Bitcoinj-based wallets could probably share the bitcoinj protobuf wallet
format (or whatever format we will be at the time of the "merge" – we
already have tons of requirements piling up!). This would mean bitcoinj
is the "consensus library equivalent" you were mentioning.





  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-12 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-01 15:23 [Bitcoin-development] Electrum 2.0 has been tagged Thomas Voegtlin
2015-03-02  7:09 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-02 15:37 ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-02 17:11   ` Jim
2015-03-11 14:58   ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-03-11 15:31     ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12  8:56       ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-03-11 17:14     ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-11 19:04       ` Jim
2015-03-11 19:24         ` Ricardo Filipe
2015-03-11 19:46           ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-11 22:57             ` Aaron Voisine
2015-03-11 23:22               ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-11 23:50                 ` devrandom
2015-03-11 23:54                   ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-12  0:11                   ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-12  2:41                     ` devrandom
2015-03-12  4:09                       ` Gregory Maxwell
2015-03-12 19:08                         ` Bryan Bishop
2015-03-12 10:30                     ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12 10:28                   ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-18  2:06                     ` devrandom
2015-03-12 10:41         ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12  3:43       ` slush
2015-03-12 16:47         ` Mike Hearn
2015-03-12 17:20           ` Gary Rowe
2015-03-12 17:42           ` Gary Rowe
2015-03-12 18:27           ` Natanael
2015-03-12 18:51             ` Andreas Schildbach [this message]
2015-03-12 19:14               ` Natanael
     [not found] <1353069350.4360497.1426126034565.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
2015-03-12  2:16 ` Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12  3:59   ` Neill Miller
     [not found] <372541993.4372759.1426123313134.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com>
2015-03-12  2:26 ` devrandom
2015-03-12  2:38 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 10:43 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-03-12  4:21 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 11:51 ` Neill Miller
2015-03-12 12:59   ` Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12 16:39   ` devrandom
2015-03-12  5:12 Thy Shizzle
2015-03-12  5:25 ` Aaron Voisine
2015-03-12  5:58 Thy Shizzle

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