Now get that Android wallet working! (((Whipping sounds)))
JK!!! But with the good price of Coino comes purchasing power for our developer. There are surely app makers out there willing to trade their skills for Coino.
Its coming guys.. But even better..
Give us 2-3 Weeks and then it comes:
Coino Online Wallet connect with the Android App!
You can send your Coinos online or with your Android and all with the same Wallet!I am also looking at forking litecoinj (an existing fork of bitcoinj for scrypt) at the moment to enable the building of 'light' wallets on ANY device. Basically a 'light' wallet does not need to download the entire blockchain and only needs to store the headers. A 'light' wallet queries online servers that hold the blockchain to update its headers and query the blockchain
This also means your wallets are NOT stored online with the associated security risks
I do believe the future of cryptocoin usage (once it goes mainstream) will utilize online wallets, it just seems the overall safer way of storage. But what I know for sure is our current understanding of & the way we use currency will change significantly over the next few years.
I agree, in principal... The problem is that as of today web wallets are still considered not safe!! Many exchanges and pools advise you not to store large amounts in their wallets as a safety measure.
Also, the development I am working on does not preclude the development and use of web-wallets, it just means that each wallet, online or offline, does not need to hold the entire blockchain, just the headers. This makes the initial wallet sync much much faster as the headers can be fetched relatively quickly. The main headache for users setting up a wallet for the first time is generally the initial sync period, which can literally take days. The same goes for people that keep a wallet on a devices that is not constantly online. In this case it can still take hours to sync the wallet again depending on how long the wallet was off line.
Retrieving the headers only is very quick and querying an online server for blockchain information is also pretty fast.
Another potential for this could be in the use of multi-coin wallets where the wallet can be configured to communicate with one or more online servers, each of which holds a blockchain for a different coin. Further down the road you could envision being able to connect to one or more exchanges from these wallets and have effective inter-wallet coin transfers. Obviously this would not be instantaneous as the transactions would still need to go through the relevant exchanges.
The obvious advantage of a web-wallet is the ability to have multiple front ends on multiple devices all connected to the same wallet over a REST API thus giving you access to your coins from virtually anywhere.