Quote from: dolphin001 on March 27, 2014, 05:48:28 PM

Hi,

Could anyone please list me and and all disadvantages of Electrum in comparison with bitcoin-qt from any and all aspects such as:

- not being able to withdraw from particular websites if using electrum desktop application
- sometimes or always not being able to send or receive funds if coming (or going to) bitcoin-qt because of using Electrum
- high probability that Electrum in the future won't be able to be used (e.g. permanent server shut down)
- limited free usage (free trail)
- limited incoming and/or outgoing transactions per X time interval (day, month,...)
- limited amount of balance being able to be hold
- limited amount of incoming transaction
- limited amount of outgoing transaction
- not being able to send funds from Electrum to X location
- Electrum fees
- etc

So since I have giant trouble with bitcoin-qt im looking to switch to Electrum but would appreciate if anyone could please list me all Electrum's disadvantages.

One issue I have had with Electrum is the server. It seems to take forever to sync. I'm running a database rebuild now and it is going at the incredibly slow speed of 30 seconds per block. This is partially solved by having recent databases downloadable (http://foundry.electrum.org/leveldb-dump/?C=M;O=D). However, assuming in some future these were unavailable, it would take quite some time to sync up a fresh server.

This is the biggest downside that I can see. However, electrum is still far better than any alternative that I have seen. I would strongly recommend to anyone searching for a bitcoin client to use it.

When I have time, I plan on making a protocol compatible alternative electrum server. I *think* I can make it faster but maybe not.