We appreciate the concerns people have regarding the blockchain strain, we ourselves recommend multibit for our bitcoin gamblers thanks to its quick sync and use of the bitcoin URI scheme.
Thanks for listening. As far as the bounty is concerned, with devcoin, that's automatic
Could you not make possibly one of the most significant bounties to the current cryptocoin ecosystem to help deal with this? And that is a bounty for say one of the following scenarios:
1) Implementation and tested patch to dvc which upgrades the system to a full ledger system complete with empty address pruning etc.
2) Hybrid Implementation where 1 or more ledger check points are auto-generated periodically which allow the pruning of the block chain older than the last maintained ledger check point (kind of like a dynamic genesis block of sorts) and all "current" transactions/blocks are processed as normal until they have sufficiently aged and rolled up into the ledger checkpoint system.
3) Some other well discussed/planned and approved idea that meets the same purpose and requirements.
A couple additional requirements to consider - dvc should still be merge minable, existing functionality shall not be adversely altered, should come with clear instruction so that any other btc based crypto can benefit as well.. notably btc...
Just a thought...?