Hi animecoin community, I'm currently working on the android wallet for animecoin and it is progressing well. hopefully in a few weeks we will have the animecoin wallet up and running for people to use. It would be nice if I could have some input on what features you would like to see in the wallet.
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About the Android Wallet features.
I think, the first thing we must have in mind is that most of our new users are those who do not use yet any other cryptocurrency (the "otaku" community in general), and will possibly be willing to try it just because Animecoin is related to something they love (manga/anime/japanese culture/games). This is an advantage, because differently from the usual cryptocurrecies user, these new users do not see the Altcoins just as a "pump and dump" thing: they have heard about Bitcoin, but cannot afford it, and so they surelly will want something affordable, useful and, of course, easy to use. In general, they are young people, and are very sound "computer literates", so their adaptation will not be a problem.
For sure, safety is an important concern. The usual cryptocurrency user masters all the safety issues, but the new users normally don't. We don't want them loosing their ANIs because of lost "wallet.dat", or "change adresses". It would be nice if our Animecoin wallet also educates and informs the users about all these important topics.
An important feature would be the wallet stimulating the use of a good encryption password. Also an easy wallet backup/recovery feature (using encrypted paperwallet or file - more or less like "Mycelium BTC android wallet"), stimulating the backup to be done as soon as the wallet is first used.
About the "stealth mode" (as featured by Darkcoin), I believe it will be an inexorable characteristic of all the cryptocurrencies in a near future. It does not have to be 100% anonymous - we do not want to fight the NSA
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but some privacy is really necessary. As its known, everything we do with our BTCs is there for anyone to see and track at the Blockchain. It's like having an online open record of everything we do with our money, our credit cards, our bank accounts... no one wants that. So, the level of privacy we (normal users) need is one that avoids such super-easy-open-acces to our financial/shopping/trading habits. But this is a future feature to be implemented with time.
Anyway, we could start it simple, and, with time, make improvements and corrections.