On 03/12/2015 07:27 PM, Natanael wrote: > > Den 12 mar 2015 17:48 skrev "Mike Hearn" <m...@plan99.net > <mailto:m...@plan99.net>>: >>> >>> b) "Creation date" is just a short-term hack. >> >> >> I agree, but we need things to be easy in the short term as well as > the long term :) >> >> The long term solution is clearly to have the 12 word seed be an > encryption key for a wallet backup with all associated metadata. We're > heading in that direction one step at a time. Unfortunately it will take > time for wallets to start working this way, and all the pieces to fall > into place. Restoring from the block chain will be a semi regular > operation for users until then. > > This have been mentioned a few times before, and what I think is > necessary is to create a common file format that can be interpreted by a > library which all wallets can use. I see it as similar as the work to > create libconsensus for parsing the blockchain.
I'm afraid this will never fly. Wallets are just too different and that's a good thing! For example, by design choice Bitcoin Wallet and bitcoinj doesn't support multiple accounts. How would it ever import wallets from MultiBit or Mycelium? Bitcoinj-based wallets could probably share the bitcoinj protobuf wallet format (or whatever format we will be at the time of the "merge" – we already have tons of requirements piling up!). This would mean bitcoinj is the "consensus library equivalent" you were mentioning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
