No more support for Mac/OSX:
That's pity. This begs the question:
Can I copy my existing 56 GB data for Bitcoin Core and 49 GB data for Armory from my Mac to Linux and continue using it seamlessly? Downloading the whole thing again just because I moved to Linux would be very painful for me.
I am trying to do just that. Copied Bitcoin Core's stuff onto a virtual Linux machine on my Mac, and started bitcoin-qt on the virtual machine yesterday evening. It does not redownload the blockchain, but it does reverify it. Has been running for 11 hours so far, judging from the rate it crunches blocks according to the log file, it will finish within 12-24 hours
I am not going to move Armory's stuff over to the VM, instead I plan on letting it rescan the blockchain. It would probably to that anyway, and it did not use to be too slow. I will report back tomorrow.
It is disappointing that Mac support has been dropped, but considering how badly Qt is supported on Mac, it is not surprising.
Pulling 0.94 is far worse, since that was going to only store one copy of the blockchain (Bitcoin Core's).
Having two blockchain on my laptop is no longer viable, within a few month I need to find an alternative. Getting rid of one of them would have postponed that for a year or so.
Edit: spelling.
And this:
