Topic: Poll: What are your Bitcoin Client Feature Request / wishlist? (Read 4150 times)
This is a really old thread. Strangely, the best ideas here still aren't implimented for most clients.
This would be nice:
My top feature request is the ability to choose which coins to send in a transaction.
In another thread, they proposed bringing accounts into the UI, and doing them a little differently. Every transaction would be labelled with an account name. You could filter your wallet and only view txns for a certain account. And most importantly, you could pay from an account, and it would only use coins from that account.
This would make accounts be like virtual wallets, so you could have anonymous accounts and identity based accounts, and the coins wouldn't get intermixed. This should satisfy at least some use cases for choosing coins to pay with.
Maybe these should be called something different from accounts, as current accounts are kind of fictitious. Moving money between accounts is currently just bookkeeping, while with what I am talking about it would require an actual transaction. Maybe these should be called something like virtual wallets, or wallet partitions.
This would make accounts be like virtual wallets, so you could have anonymous accounts and identity based accounts, and the coins wouldn't get intermixed. This should satisfy at least some use cases for choosing coins to pay with.
Maybe these should be called something different from accounts, as current accounts are kind of fictitious. Moving money between accounts is currently just bookkeeping, while with what I am talking about it would require an actual transaction. Maybe these should be called something like virtual wallets, or wallet partitions.
I would like to be able to see my client running on Fluxbox WM. I'm guessing that it tries to minimize to a tray, but does not show up in the Fluxbox tray. Some command line switch to prevent auto-minimizing would be helpful.
How about a 1000 BTC bonus for new users? That way everyone will have bitcoins. I'll ask Gavin. 
Great idea! Then I'll write a script that installs a new client, transfers the free 1000 BTC to my other client, deletes the new client and repeats forever! Give everyone free money, and we will all be rich!
How about a 1000 BTC bonus for new users? That way everyone will have bitcoins. I'll ask Gavin.
keep your private keys secure in the same way that gpg dose.
True, but why the hell it requires all those widget and X libs.
bitcoind doesn't require wxwidgets. The GUI isn't built when you compile bitcoind.
It is much easier to break stuff than to build it.
Removing the miner and GUI is a nobrainer. Just remove it and let someone else to build GUI on top of JSON API, in just a few weeks there will be a handful of competing GUI implementations. Every PHP 'programmer' out there would take a shot at it. The best way to improve stuff in open source world is to let go.
There already is one client that runs via RPC, and it is very unstable...I think its a good idea, in theory, and may be good for some people, but most people don't want to have to bother with opening multiple programs just to run Bitcoin. There already is bitcoind which does what you want, just help make Spesmilo better.Removing the miner and GUI is a nobrainer. Just remove it and let someone else to build GUI on top of JSON API, in just a few weeks there will be a handful of competing GUI implementations. Every PHP 'programmer' out there would take a shot at it. The best way to improve stuff in open source world is to let go.
Currently, the devs dont want to deffer too much from what Satoshi intended. This keeps one client which is "mainline", but with all the new clients there should be plenty to do what you want.
I do, however, agree that "Generate Bitcoins" should be removed or, at least, renamed to something like "Donate CPU Time to help the Bitcoin Network" due to the extreme difficulty of mining on CPUs these days.
Spesmilo isn't unstable but it requires a patch to bitcoin that has been ignored,
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/patch-initializationcompleted-3856
This is needed. But nobody has merged it in yet.
You must be using the gitorious branch from luke-jr... Try this version https://github.com/genjix/spesmilo
I guarantee that's stable.
It is much easier to break stuff than to build it.
Removing the miner and GUI is a nobrainer. Just remove it and let someone else to build GUI on top of JSON API, in just a few weeks there will be a handful of competing GUI implementations. Every PHP 'programmer' out there would take a shot at it. The best way to improve stuff in open source world is to let go.
There already is one client that runs via RPC, and it is very unstable...I think its a good idea, in theory, and may be good for some people, but most people don't want to have to bother with opening multiple programs just to run Bitcoin. There already is bitcoind which does what you want, just help make Spesmilo better.Removing the miner and GUI is a nobrainer. Just remove it and let someone else to build GUI on top of JSON API, in just a few weeks there will be a handful of competing GUI implementations. Every PHP 'programmer' out there would take a shot at it. The best way to improve stuff in open source world is to let go.
Currently, the devs dont want to deffer too much from what Satoshi intended. This keeps one client which is "mainline", but with all the new clients there should be plenty to do what you want.
I do, however, agree that "Generate Bitcoins" should be removed or, at least, renamed to something like "Donate CPU Time to help the Bitcoin Network" due to the extreme difficulty of mining on CPUs these days.
Spesmilo isn't unstable but it requires a patch to bitcoin that has been ignored,
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/patch-initializationcompleted-3856
This is needed. But nobody has merged it in yet.
It is much easier to break stuff than to build it.
Removing the miner and GUI is a nobrainer. Just remove it and let someone else to build GUI on top of JSON API, in just a few weeks there will be a handful of competing GUI implementations. Every PHP 'programmer' out there would take a shot at it. The best way to improve stuff in open source world is to let go.
There already is one client that runs via RPC, and it is very unstable...I think its a good idea, in theory, and may be good for some people, but most people don't want to have to bother with opening multiple programs just to run Bitcoin. There already is bitcoind which does what you want, just help make Spesmilo better.Removing the miner and GUI is a nobrainer. Just remove it and let someone else to build GUI on top of JSON API, in just a few weeks there will be a handful of competing GUI implementations. Every PHP 'programmer' out there would take a shot at it. The best way to improve stuff in open source world is to let go.
Currently, the devs dont want to deffer too much from what Satoshi intended. This keeps one client which is "mainline", but with all the new clients there should be plenty to do what you want.
I do, however, agree that "Generate Bitcoins" should be removed or, at least, renamed to something like "Donate CPU Time to help the Bitcoin Network" due to the extreme difficulty of mining on CPUs these days.
Spesmilo isn't unstable but it requires a patch to bitcoin that has been ignored,
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/patch-initializationcompleted-3856
This is needed. But nobody has merged it in yet.
It is much easier to break stuff than to build it.
Removing the miner and GUI is a nobrainer. Just remove it and let someone else to build GUI on top of JSON API, in just a few weeks there will be a handful of competing GUI implementations. Every PHP 'programmer' out there would take a shot at it. The best way to improve stuff in open source world is to let go.
There already is one client that runs via RPC, and it is very unstable...I think its a good idea, in theory, and may be good for some people, but most people don't want to have to bother with opening multiple programs just to run Bitcoin. There already is bitcoind which does what you want, just help make Spesmilo better.Removing the miner and GUI is a nobrainer. Just remove it and let someone else to build GUI on top of JSON API, in just a few weeks there will be a handful of competing GUI implementations. Every PHP 'programmer' out there would take a shot at it. The best way to improve stuff in open source world is to let go.
Currently, the devs dont want to deffer too much from what Satoshi intended. This keeps one client which is "mainline", but with all the new clients there should be plenty to do what you want.
I do, however, agree that "Generate Bitcoins" should be removed or, at least, renamed to something like "Donate CPU Time to help the Bitcoin Network" due to the extreme difficulty of mining on CPUs these days.
I also agree with removing the default CPU miner. It causes more problems than good.
Separating the GUI from the command line would probably be a good idea too, but I have no idea about the effort that would be needed.
Separating the GUI from the command line would probably be a good idea too, but I have no idea about the effort that would be needed.
A make cup of tea function.
+1Really important things: is cutting fucking GUI and useless miner.
A make cup of tea function.
-1 didn't you read d. adams? h2g2 this could seriously backfire
seriously stop trying to bloat bitcoin
A make cup of tea function.
Between friends and for small payments - I'd like a Friend-to-Friend mode with online reputations(trust ratings) or a reputation network something like the ripple system but with Bitcoins.
In another thread, they proposed bringing accounts into the UI, and doing them a little differently. Every transaction would be labelled with an account name. You could filter your wallet and only view txns for a certain account. And most importantly, you could pay from an account, and it would only use coins from that account.
This would make accounts be like virtual wallets, so you could have anonymous accounts and identity based accounts, and the coins wouldn't get intermixed. This should satisfy at least some use cases for choosing coins to pay with.
Maybe these should be called something different from accounts, as current accounts are kind of fictitious. Moving money between accounts is currently just bookkeeping, while with what I am talking about it would require an actual transaction. Maybe these should be called something like virtual wallets, or wallet partitions.
This would make accounts be like virtual wallets, so you could have anonymous accounts and identity based accounts, and the coins wouldn't get intermixed. This should satisfy at least some use cases for choosing coins to pay with.
Maybe these should be called something different from accounts, as current accounts are kind of fictitious. Moving money between accounts is currently just bookkeeping, while with what I am talking about it would require an actual transaction. Maybe these should be called something like virtual wallets, or wallet partitions.
My top feature request is the ability to choose which coins to send in a transaction.
+ 1
That would be an extremely useful feature.
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