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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin Core (Bitcoin-Qt) 0.9.1 released - update required
by
Luke-Jr
on 09/04/2014, 12:53:37 UTC
Everyone should keep in mind at all times that Bitcoin is still an experiment, Bitcoin technology (consensus systems) is still a very new field of computer science, and the whole thing could fall apart overnight.

If payment protocol is distributed with Core, it should be an optional thing, which the user can decide to activate (by checkbox, whatever). Security is much more important.
Of all the possible security flaws... OpenSSL, a security-oriented library, having a vulnerability in the most fundamental security feature used by virtually everything... is the LAST thing anyone would have reasonably considered to be a risk to security.

Edit. imho the dialog introduced in 0.9.0 which replaced the receiving addresses field is not an improvement. It makes things more awkward. (An example of a really good improvement is coincontrol and wallet file selection.)
It's much less confusing and makes it easier to use Bitcoin correctly.
Coin Control is handy, but inevitably a power user tool that is likely to give newbies the wrong idea.
Multiwallet support is unfortunately lagging behind since CodeShark went and made his own wallet instead. Sad

When the ppa version will be ready?  Angry
Never, it's not affected (although your OS probably is...)