im still using old wallet v1.4.2.0 and still works good
do i need to use the new wallet?
Same here, I am also using old wallet and it's working superb.
there will never be a need to update your wallet unless i post that an update is mandatory.
the only thing you will be missing by not updating your wallet is new features that will be added to the coin
Speaking of new features, how about a wallet that can generate 'prepackaged' wallets that you can send to people who don't already have coin?
So instead of:
1. telling someone you want to send them someone some SUPER (applies to any coin really),
2. telling them to go to this weird (to them) site
3. download that wallet
4. Generate an address
5. Have them send you their address
6. Then finally you can send them SUPER
7. They have to wait for the confirmations, then they get it
you now have:
1. Click "Generate a pre-paid wallet with SUPER amount: _____ "
Which automatically does the following:
Generate a new SUPER wallet from your own running and up to date copy
Generates an address to send the coin to in that wallet, and sends it right away to give the confirmations a head start
Saves the wallet as a password-protected self extracting portable executable (using 7-zip or something similarly free) for the user's platform
(ideally) uploads it to a filesharing sire and generates a link you can send them in chat or on a forum
(or, ideally) generates a new email using whatever mail client you have's API with the installer pre-attached
2. You send them the link / email,
3. They click download and extract it, run it, they have SUPER ready to use almost immediately
There are some special cases to resolve with this, like
1. you have to be running the same platform of wallet that the person you are sending to is running (Win/Mac/Linux) to use your own executable as the template
1a- this can be resolved by just generating a wallet.dat file, not the whole wallet client, and your link / package is just the new wallet.dat + a link to the wallet download page and a little script to run the wallet installer but copy in the generated wallet.dat file before running it, instead of it generating a new one
2. They can't really use SUPER until syncing with network happens, which might not be instant, but that's going to be the case no matter how you send it to them.
the only reason this isnt currently done is because any form of sending them an up-to-date wallet means that you will be sending them the whole block chain as well, meaning the download/upload for your files is the same size as your wallets. with a chain like the BTC chain. that means uploading / downloading a 20 gig file. this breaks most limits on most file sharing sites and isnt actually practical, it is actually faster to download the blockchain from the network in most cases instead of a remote file sharing site