[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] lightweight clients?

[micah]

Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> writes:

> Has there been any consideration of packaging a lightweight client such
> as Electrum? This seems a missing piece for users who can't afford to
> keep the blockchain up-to-date.

I just was walking someone through using bitcoin and it took them a good
6 hours to download the block chain on a good connection and then they
were unhappy that it ate 13gigs of disk space (filling up their drive
twice).

I dont know anything about Electrum, or the lightweight clients, but
this seems like a good idea to me.