I noticed today within my company when I wanted to show them Multibit, aspecially people within a company don't have Java installled cause of the risks of a malware infection when they forget or don't update there Java.
Are you planning on making Multibit compatible with some other format that will run on a computer without Java?
Sounds stupid, but when Bitcoin will grow big many people will choose another client simpy cause of they don't want or are not allowed to install Java on there computer.
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RE: the tooltips for incoming transactions - do you mean on the wallet total (when it blinks) should have a tooltip of the description of the incoming transaction(s) ?
Perhaps like a msn popup showing label (if defined) or recipient address that times out (hides) after a user configurable time.
It is handy when you are expecting a transfer back.
I like to place a bet then go back to web browsing while waiting for my result to come back in.
We will be donating 1.411 BTC to your donation address to aid your efforts, expect to see more from us in the future
.edit: donation txid
Hi SRoulette,
Thanks for your feedback.
The display of the full 8 decimal places is going into the next release (4.11) as it is the Bitcoin norm and the 'Satoshi digits' are starting to be used for various things now.
Sound I will have a think about - certainly doable.
RE: the tooltips for incoming transactions - do you mean on the wallet total (when it blinks) should have a tooltip of the description of the incoming transaction(s) ?
Thanks for your feedback.
The display of the full 8 decimal places is going into the next release (4.11) as it is the Bitcoin norm and the 'Satoshi digits' are starting to be used for various things now.
Sound I will have a think about - certainly doable.
RE: the tooltips for incoming transactions - do you mean on the wallet total (when it blinks) should have a tooltip of the description of the incoming transaction(s) ?
Hello, we would like to say thank you for your excellent alternative wallet.
We have been using your client extensively in our testing since discovering bitcoin uri's and then your incredible wallet.
The network synchronization speed, support of uri's and multi wallet support are simply fantastic.
We should not ask for more, .... but
Keep up the great work.
We have been using your client extensively in our testing since discovering bitcoin uri's and then your incredible wallet.
The network synchronization speed, support of uri's and multi wallet support are simply fantastic.
We should not ask for more, .... but
- Option to display the full 8 decimal places in the main transaction window.
- Option for Sound notifications on new transfers (a feature we quite like on the android bitcoin wallet and blockchain.info)
- Option for tool tip of incoming transactions.
Keep up the great work.
I see. Well good to know you countered the bug. 
Hi Tittiez
Yes what you experienced was a wallet file not being written completely (due to power loss I think). To counter this bug I have about a week ago added a rolling backup of the wallets. Now when MultiBit writes out a wallet it:
1) backs up your existing wallet to a file called [wallet name]-[current datetime].wallet in the same directory
2) writes out the wallet
3) securely deletes any previous wallet backup
Also when it loads the wallet if that fails it will load the backup.
This code will be in the next live release.
This bug was in the blockchain file so it does not affect your private keys. However MultiBit cannot work without a blockchain file so it does stop the user working.
A MultiBit user still needs to manually create wallet backups, or exports of the private keys, on a separate device such as a USB drive. This is to counter the possibility of:
1) laptop theft
2) disk drive failure
3) something else
Yes what you experienced was a wallet file not being written completely (due to power loss I think). To counter this bug I have about a week ago added a rolling backup of the wallets. Now when MultiBit writes out a wallet it:
1) backs up your existing wallet to a file called [wallet name]-[current datetime].wallet in the same directory
2) writes out the wallet
3) securely deletes any previous wallet backup
Also when it loads the wallet if that fails it will load the backup.
This code will be in the next live release.
This bug was in the blockchain file so it does not affect your private keys. However MultiBit cannot work without a blockchain file so it does stop the user working.
A MultiBit user still needs to manually create wallet backups, or exports of the private keys, on a separate device such as a USB drive. This is to counter the possibility of:
1) laptop theft
2) disk drive failure
3) something else
I think this is one of those "1 in a thousand" failures so I expect most people will never encounter it.
It will appear in the next live and test releases.
It will appear in the next live and test releases.
You had to get the private keys out of my corrupted file when the same thing happened to me a few months ago (I think that was what happened, or something similar).
Re: spending unconfirmed change.
Yes this is annoying and I plan to fix it in bitcoinj at some point soon.
Yes this is annoying and I plan to fix it in bitcoinj at some point soon.
I had a user this week report that her blockchain got corrupted when her computer lost power.
Previously at startup if MultiBit could not load the blockchain you would get a red "Error" on the network indicator at the bottom left of the screen.
How MultiBit works is that there is an up-to-date blockchain included in the installer. This is a file called multibit.blockchain. When you first use MultiBit it copies the multibit.blockchain into your user data area and then starts syncing the copy in the user data area. (This is so that multiple users can be running MultiBit on the same machine).
I have put in some error recovery code so that if the user's blockchain does not load, it recopies in the one from the installer. It will then have to re-sync from the date of your MultiBit installation so this might take a while but at least then the recovery is automatic.
I think this is one of those "1 in a thousand" failures so I expect most people will never encounter it.
It will appear in the next live and test releases.
Previously at startup if MultiBit could not load the blockchain you would get a red "Error" on the network indicator at the bottom left of the screen.
How MultiBit works is that there is an up-to-date blockchain included in the installer. This is a file called multibit.blockchain. When you first use MultiBit it copies the multibit.blockchain into your user data area and then starts syncing the copy in the user data area. (This is so that multiple users can be running MultiBit on the same machine).
I have put in some error recovery code so that if the user's blockchain does not load, it recopies in the one from the installer. It will then have to re-sync from the date of your MultiBit installation so this might take a while but at least then the recovery is automatic.
I think this is one of those "1 in a thousand" failures so I expect most people will never encounter it.
It will appear in the next live and test releases.
Thanks to Matija Mazi there is now a Slovenian translation of MultiBit. Screen shot:
This will appear in the next live version which will probably be in around a week.
Thanks!
This will appear in the next live version which will probably be in around a week.
Thanks!
Hi bitcoinspot.nl,
Yes the Bitcoin Foundation is a very interesting development.
I think how the classes works is that:
+ Each class of member votes for their representative in that class.
+ One membership gets one vote.
So each of the individual members vote for their "individuals" representative, the companies vote for their "company" representative etc.
When you send bitcoin you only have to type in the password once. There is a slight delay in the send dialog updating just due to the code waiting for the network to send the bitcoin.
There are the two password entry fields when you are setting up and changing the password to help avoid a typo creating a wallet with an unexpected password.
Yes the Bitcoin Foundation is a very interesting development.
I think how the classes works is that:
+ Each class of member votes for their representative in that class.
+ One membership gets one vote.
So each of the individual members vote for their "individuals" representative, the companies vote for their "company" representative etc.
When you send bitcoin you only have to type in the password once. There is a slight delay in the send dialog updating just due to the code waiting for the network to send the bitcoin.
There are the two password entry fields when you are setting up and changing the password to help avoid a typo creating a wallet with an unexpected password.
Just a quick note,
i just send 2,5 bitcoins to become a foundation member, so i filled in my password for the transfer
and when i filled it in for the second time for approval my screen already said "bitcoins sent successfully"
Shouldn't this message come after i filled in my password for the second time ?
Greetings from holland!
i just send 2,5 bitcoins to become a foundation member
, so i filled in my password for the transferand when i filled it in for the second time for approval my screen already said "bitcoins sent successfully"
Shouldn't this message come after i filled in my password for the second time ?
Greetings from holland!
Great initiative this foundation, but i was browsing the site and i see that there are different classes of membership, and different costs. The site says that: "Each Membership includes one vote in its voting class. " but does one class have more weight than another class ? so if i donate 10000 bitcoins per year as a company do i have more to say in this foundation ?
i posted this question also on the official thread....
i posted this question also on the official thread....
After a request by Matija Mazi, I have added Slovenian to the list of target languages for MultiBit.
If you would like to help him translate the 400ish MultiBit texts, please go to:
http://translate.multibit.org
Thanks.
If you would like to help him translate the 400ish MultiBit texts, please go to:
http://translate.multibit.org
Thanks.
I've joined too! I think it's an excellent initiative.
I have just spent all the MultiBit donations, topped up with my own BTC, for a lifetime membership of the Bitcoin Foundation.
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Does Multibit Merchant offer any solution(s) for this problem or does the owner of the webshop get there bitcoins and still needs to go to an exchange and trade there bitcoins for euros/dollars/pounds?
(I'm the lead developer for MultiBit Merchant)
As part of my October of Bitcoin I'll be pushing MultiBit Merchant to a minimum viable product (MVP). This means that I have to strip out as much extraneous work as possible to hit that tight deadline. The MVP is unlikely to have automated fiat exchange in place, although prices will be quoted in real time from MtGox in a range of local currencies.
However, I am also involved with the XChange project and as part of that there is a push to introduce a Deposit/Withdraw API in addition to the trading API. Using XChange it should be possible to take bitcoins, deposit them onto the exchange offering the best deal at your market depth (arbitrage) and perform a trade to fiat. That fiat can then be withdrawn to your selected account using the exchange's provided mechanisms.
XChange is a Java library, but because it runs on the JVM (now known as the mlvm) it is possible for it to be accessed by any other language running on the technology (think Clojure, Jython, JRuby etc). In time, this will make it trivial for anyone using the mlvm to be able to interoperate with a wide range of exchanges.
some feedback/questions: I just checked out multibit for the first time together with my brother (recovered some coins from an old electrum wallet and we imported a private key).
Other than that our experience has been satisfying. Thanks for a great open product!
- How is the change address chosen? It seems (unlike satoshi client), multibit does not generate new addresses on it's own but uses some existing address for change. Why is that? I'm assuming to solve the "wallet backup problem"?
- It seems funds are unspendable until the previous tx is in a block. Why? (this could be pretty annoying, say in case I want to send money to multiple different recipients. I would have to wait for a block in between each transaction)
- A suggestion regarding key import: I expected to be able to import a private key by pasting it into some textentry field. Instead we had to generate a file (we used key export to see what the format was). We didn't know what to use for the date and so we used todays date. As we later discovered this was a mistake, we should've entered the date the last tx on that address had taken place (we did a blockchain rescan afterwards to fix it). So the suggestion: in addition to being able to import keys from file, maybe a textbox to paste a private key could be offered. After that, a popup or something could ask for the rescan-timepoint and explain what it is about)
- A sort-of bug (likely not multibit fault, probably not even fixable from multibit source): My brother uses a window manager called "notion" (formerly "ion"). At times something gets screwed up and menus (both when selecting from main menu and also the context menu when using right-click on, for example, a transaction) appear offset to the lower right (by many pixels, somewhere completely else in the window) and menu items cannot be selected with the mouse. Once it starts occuring it keeps occuring with the same offset. A frame-resize doesn't help, but putting multibit into another frame (re-attach) does. This might not be worth investigating since it's most likely notions fault, just thought I'd let you know anyway.
Other than that our experience has been satisfying. Thanks for a great open product!
Regarding Multibit Merchant.
Now businesses will only start using Bitcoin to promote there company.
I mean most companies still need to buy there products or pay there employees in euros/dollars or whatever mainstream currency.
So they need there currency instead of bitcoins.
Now Bit-pay gives you the option to withdraw euros/dollars/pounds from your account to your company bank account so you can buy in your product again.
Though, the rates are crazy and do not really attract companies to start accepting Bitcoin that are in the euro zone for instance. They need to pay bit-pay 4% of there withdraw transaction wich is crazy.
Does Multibit Merchant offer any solution(s) for this problem or does the owner of the webshop get there bitcoins and still needs to go to an exchange and trade there bitcoins for euros/dollars/pounds?
If this exchange problem gets solved Bitcoin will grow huge.
Now businesses will only start using Bitcoin to promote there company.
I mean most companies still need to buy there products or pay there employees in euros/dollars or whatever mainstream currency.
So they need there currency instead of bitcoins.
Now Bit-pay gives you the option to withdraw euros/dollars/pounds from your account to your company bank account so you can buy in your product again.
Though, the rates are crazy and do not really attract companies to start accepting Bitcoin that are in the euro zone for instance. They need to pay bit-pay 4% of there withdraw transaction wich is crazy.
Does Multibit Merchant offer any solution(s) for this problem or does the owner of the webshop get there bitcoins and still needs to go to an exchange and trade there bitcoins for euros/dollars/pounds?
If this exchange problem gets solved Bitcoin will grow huge.
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