[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] lightweight clients?

[Joey Hess]

micah wrote:
> 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.

Electrum is GPLed, with a few BSD bits. It's python, and has a
reasonable GUI. It's dependant on public servers to actually follow the
block chain. The server code is AGPL. It has some fairly good support
for offline wallets and key recovery via a 12 word mnemonic code,
using a word list that is amusing derived from analysis of poetry.
(Incidentially, the word list, if it's copyrightable at all, is CC-BY-SA 3.0.)

There's another lightweight wallet, MultiBit, but it's java so I didn't
look at it further.

-- 
see shy jo
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