[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] lightweight clients?

Dmitry Smirnov onlyjob at member.fsf.org
Sat Jul 27 20:38:52 UTC 2013


On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:14:27 Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.

Just a month earlier (in June) Vasudev Kamath joined pkg-bitcoin "to
maintain electrum and multibit bitcoin wallets in Debian".

Although lately we didn't hear from him he created "electrum" git
repository in pkg-bitcoin. I reckon some draft packaging is committed
there...

Best wishes,
 Dmitry Smirnov
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