Local Wallet with Online Blockchain. Is it possible?

empoweoqwj

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Quote from: JohnBlack on December 23, 2013, 06:58:29 PM

Quote from: empoweoqwj on December 22, 2013, 11:05:32 PM

Quote from: Duff___Man on December 22, 2013, 12:46:50 PM

Hi guys

Its just a thought I had, is it possible to have a local wallet with an online blockchain? The local wallet would have to connect to the blockchain to allow transfers to go through. User's wouldn't have to download a huge blockchain and could transfer funds through their local wallet.

Yep - like PRab says - its exactly how electrum works. Much more user-friendly than having to download the huge blockchain.

problem with electrum is that you have to trust random ip addresses about the blockchain integrity though, am I mistaken?

I use electrum but I'm not qualified to answer that. They have a dedicated sub-forum if you want to ask the developers about the issue. Would be interested to know myself.

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Quote from: Duff___Man on December 23, 2013, 02:21:13 PM

Quote from: empoweoqwj on December 23, 2013, 01:30:30 AM

Quote from: grau on December 23, 2013, 01:24:37 AM

Quote from: Duff___Man on December 22, 2013, 12:46:50 PM

Hi guys

Its just a thought I had, is it possible to have a local wallet with an online blockchain? The local wallet would have to connect to the blockchain to allow transfers to go through. User's wouldn't have to download a huge blockchain and could transfer funds through their local wallet.

This is the design of BOP Enterprise Server.
There is a client library with wallet related functions that connects to a remote server. This is not an end-user product though.

Love your logo by the way - could you share where you got it done? I need a logo for bitcoin site, prepared to spend for great design.

I did it myself

Darned - you're good!!

JohnBlack

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Quote from: empoweoqwj on December 22, 2013, 11:05:32 PM

Quote from: Duff___Man on December 22, 2013, 12:46:50 PM

Hi guys

Its just a thought I had, is it possible to have a local wallet with an online blockchain? The local wallet would have to connect to the blockchain to allow transfers to go through. User's wouldn't have to download a huge blockchain and could transfer funds through their local wallet.

Yep - like PRab says - its exactly how electrum works. Much more user-friendly than having to download the huge blockchain.

problem with electrum is that you have to trust random ip addresses about the blockchain integrity though, am I mistaken?

Duff___Man

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Quote from: empoweoqwj on December 23, 2013, 01:30:30 AM

Quote from: grau on December 23, 2013, 01:24:37 AM

Quote from: Duff___Man on December 22, 2013, 12:46:50 PM

Hi guys

Its just a thought I had, is it possible to have a local wallet with an online blockchain? The local wallet would have to connect to the blockchain to allow transfers to go through. User's wouldn't have to download a huge blockchain and could transfer funds through their local wallet.

This is the design of BOP Enterprise Server.
There is a client library with wallet related functions that connects to a remote server. This is not an end-user product though.

Love your logo by the way - could you share where you got it done? I need a logo for bitcoin site, prepared to spend for great design.

I did it myself

empoweoqwj

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Quote from: grau on December 23, 2013, 01:24:37 AM

Quote from: Duff___Man on December 22, 2013, 12:46:50 PM

Hi guys

Its just a thought I had, is it possible to have a local wallet with an online blockchain? The local wallet would have to connect to the blockchain to allow transfers to go through. User's wouldn't have to download a huge blockchain and could transfer funds through their local wallet.

This is the design of BOP Enterprise Server.
There is a client library with wallet related functions that connects to a remote server. This is not an end-user product though.

Love your logo by the way - could you share where you got it done? I need a logo for bitcoin site, prepared to spend for great design.

grau

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Quote from: Duff___Man on December 22, 2013, 12:46:50 PM

Hi guys

Its just a thought I had, is it possible to have a local wallet with an online blockchain? The local wallet would have to connect to the blockchain to allow transfers to go through. User's wouldn't have to download a huge blockchain and could transfer funds through their local wallet.

This is the design of BOP Enterprise Server.
There is a client library with wallet related functions that connects to a remote server. This is not an end-user product though.

empoweoqwj

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Quote from: Duff___Man on December 22, 2013, 12:46:50 PM

Hi guys

Its just a thought I had, is it possible to have a local wallet with an online blockchain? The local wallet would have to connect to the blockchain to allow transfers to go through. User's wouldn't have to download a huge blockchain and could transfer funds through their local wallet.

Yep - like PRab says - its exactly how electrum works. Much more user-friendly than having to download the huge blockchain.

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I want to make a shameless plug for a little open source project I built recently. Also a local wallet with blockchain in the cloud

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sparecoins/nhkolgoaflkjhfkamdhiahingnendokj
https://github.com/BitcoinMafia/SpareCoinsExt

PRab

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This is basically what Electrum (http://electrum.org/) and Multibit (https://multibit.org/) do. Are you looking for something different than that?

Duff___Man

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Hi guys

Its just a thought I had, is it possible to have a local wallet with an online blockchain? The local wallet would have to connect to the blockchain to allow transfers to go through. User's wouldn't have to download a huge blockchain and could transfer funds through their local wallet.

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