Quote from: conspirosphere.tk on January 18, 2012, 02:54:12 PM

Quote from: hex on January 16, 2012, 10:00:21 PM

Yes but I am not sure if official bitcoin client is even planned to be user friendly.

The biggest problem now is blockchain downloading and storing. It takes almost 3GB now and how big will it be in a year? 10G ?
And they have no plan AFAIK to fix that problem...

So I think that if official client is to be kept for advanced users and average joes should find another solution with all protections or hosted.

+1. Danloadin the friggin 1GB+ monetary base all the time seems overkill even to me. How about adding the option to use on-the-fly some online version of the blockchain (via p2p ideally, or some cloud) and/or download a shortened version, like Electrum / Multibit do?

And how about a portable version which stores the wallet and everything in the same folder of the prog instead of hiding it in the system partition? I had to hack a .bat file myself to have a so essential feature.

theres a option for bitcoin.conf that lets you choose any folder youd like

Code:

-datadir= Specify data directory