Let me link Grandma to anything other than a official supported easy to use GUI and see what happens.
I doubt Grandma will ever run her own node, regardless of GUI. In the CryptoFuture, I imagine Grandma will use a third-party solution specifically designed for grandmas
EDIT: or she will just enter her PIN at the register after the point-of-sale machine connects to her NFC powered keyring wallet. No GUI required.If you've read any of my posts, you can probably tell I'm a big, big fan of user experience and accessibility. I just don't think it has much place in the core software, as it will ultimately not be a user end-point.
First off grandma and most anyone else that will use crypto could care less about running a node. Logical fallacy (Straw Man) there.
The masses need a GUI released from the Core team for one reason only. TRUST, all the other reasons are quibblable (ohh did i make a word up: fails spell check).
AFA the bolded, in a perfect world yes. In reality a vast majority will not spend the time to do due diligence one something that is not backed by those they trust and unless XMR Dev's put on the Landing page that that (whatever wallet) is the official wallet (hence they are putting their word behind it) then nothing is going to get widely adopted. AFA the argument that many use different BTC wallets you forget that that is after the fact that they started with one supported wallet and diverged from there for whatever reason.
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Do you think anyone that needs a simple to use wallet is practicing OSPEC? Or do you mean the appearance of security?
Do you think anyone that needs a simple to use wallet is practicing OSPEC? Or do you mean the appearance of security?
Nope and Yup, not only the appearance but the trust of those supplying it without having to goto the effort to do the research.