Topic: Bitcoin user friendliness and wallets. (Read 625 times)

Your so right this is for hobbyists, don't even gamble, go use paypal they would love your business.

I have to correct you the wallet actually is very small (think kilobytes). It is the transaction history you are downloading.

Thanks! I will have a look at them.

Going to keep an eye on this as it definately has potential to be transformative technology.

Maybe have a look at https://blockchain.info

Yep you are right I cannot benefit from this.

If I ask my suppliers in Guangzhou or customers to accept money via a system that has a client with 1 hour download time they are going to think I'm crazy.

It would have be small and have built in exchange and transfer fuctions like my brokers webpage.

This technology is nowhere near ready for use in the real world outside of hobbiests.

I'm am still going to get some though as it has some serious volitility and would a nice gamble for day trading

SSL is very user friendly because applications have been built to make it invisible to average user.  Most people who are using it are not even aware of it's existence.  If it had any complexity or required the user to have techinical knowledge then it would be a failure.

I know how blockchains work as I have spent the last couple of days researching Bitcoin.  I understand how the distributed ledger structure of Bitcoin functions.  Every client clearly does not need to have a record of every transaction in order for it be deemed safe, only the most paranoid would believe this.  Yes it would be less safe than currently but more than safe enough.  You only need to have a large number of super-seeders to record every transaction detail and authorise transfers.  If bitcoin has not been designed to cope with this kind of structure then whilst it is undoubtedly a major step forward it is not the finished product that the world needs.

Lol at changing at my ISP.  The general population or the are not going to do this.

I regularly transfer money around the world so any system that can do this without it being skimmed by third parties is obviously going to be of interest.  

I am not investigating this as a potential toy or out of intellectual curiosity.  I am looking at it as a tool.

Digital currency is the future, however if Bitcoin ever wants to become widely adopted then it needs to be more accessible for the end user.

If it can't accomplish this then another digital currency with similar properties will.

Kind of reminds me of Bram Cohen's first version of bitorrent.

Ok thanks, I'll try it. 

The best wallet at the moment is MultiBit IMO.

I run a small ebay business and I have listed a few items on Bitmit as a trial.

I was wondering if someone could recommend a light weight wallet that I could use store any bitcoins that I get?  Ideally it would only be a few megabytes in size and not require heavy downloads to keep it in sync.  

I sure most people are aware of this but the general public do not have technical skills or ISP contracts that allow heavy bandwidth usage.

In my opinion the fact that user friendly client software is not easily locatable is a major stumbling block for wider acceptence of bitcoin.  A lightweight client should be one of the first things that you stumble across when looking into Bitcoin.

Most people are not going to be willing to download a 6gb+ wallet in order to be able to use bitcoins, it's just not going to happen!

I really like the idea behind bitcoin and I am hoping that it takes off and becomes widely used.  

You technical people really need to get to work immediately and make it more user friendly whilst you have bit of momentum and press coverage!  

If Bitcoin is going to have a future it needs to be at least as easy to use as Napster was.