I would like to know a couple of things,
1. Will there ever be a change to the use of paraphrases i.e. changeable to personalized passwords ( as this is a little much for 90% of the world that you would like to have adopt crypo, as a buddy of mine who ran an ISP for many years said, "it's hard enough to get people to use numbers in their passwords, let alone something this long" and I think he's right, I look around at all the people I know ... it's hard enough to get them to even think Crypto is even worth something let alone adopt it ... so one must consider "GENERAL public" usability as a huge factor when designing a wallet.
2. where is the block chain stored on my PC, as I see nothing in my %appdata% as per other wallets.
3. Are you able or will it be implemented that you will be able to create alias address as per most other wallets
Thanks in advance to anyone who take time to reply
Hi Kultus,
This is an old thread, you can use the link in my post a couple up thread for the current one. Or better still, nxtforum.org as there are usually over 100 people online at anyone time. There are over 500 posts per day there too as opposed a handful on BTT so you get quicker responses.
To answer your questions:
1) For ease of use, there are lightweight wallets at mynxt.info and mofowallet.com that use wallet.dat files. They don't have all the features yet but and in constant development.
Using a full wallet, 12 words is required. You can create your own password by selecting "Returning User?" and enter you own password.
THIS ISN'T RECOMMENDED. There are bots that monitor new blocks for accounts of non-random account paraphrases that they have pre-computed. Only truly random is good enough, this is what the client creates.
"onesmallstepformanonegiantleapformankind" and "argargargargargargargargargargargargargarg" are the types of passwords that users thought were good enough that have had their Nxt stolen. Bible verses passphrases have also been stolen. There have been
ZERO accounts that have lost their Nxt in this way when allowing the client to create the passphrase. Always let the client create your passphrase or use a lightweight client above. You have been warned
2) The blockchain is stored in "nxt_db".
3) Aliases have been implemented from Dec 2013 - Jan 2014 though not sure how you like to use them. They can be linked to more things than just accounts, such as websites. They can be used create a DNS system but no third party devs have taken this up yet. This would lead to decentralised websites, decentralised twitter, facebook etc could be built on Nxt.
You can assign a name to your account by clicking "No name set" in the top left corner when in the client. There is also "Aliases" in the menu on the left to assign multiple aliases to an account. "Google" etc. have already been taken
Sending funds to an alias wasn't implemented a few months ago (it is to be done on the client side IIRC). Someone else would have to confirm if this is now possible.
Try the thread above if you have follow ups and want a quicker reply
