Hello khal, I wonder if you could give us your opinion on point number five below:
Crashing bugs, any bug that might result in loss of bitcoins, and security fixes are always highest priority, but here are the big things I think are very high priority that, as far as I know, nobody is working on. I think they all need to be done before we can say we have a "Bitcoin 1.0" :
- finish download-only-blockheaders client mode
- password-protect the wallet private keys (mitigate the steal wallet.dat problem: see https://gist.github.com/803170 )
- import a backed-up wallet
- figure out how to do click-to-pay
- design/implement a secure DNS-like "map string to bitcoin address" system (so I can send bitcoins to "gavin@acm.org")
- export+encrypt part of your balance (for long-term storage; I still waffle on whether we want to encourage that right now)
Stumbled upon Gavin's post from over a year ago and wondered about the status of these points. It looks like the pace of development is slow, but not being a programmer, I feel all I can do to help is tell businesses and friends about bitcoin, play bitcoin poker, order the magazine, and bomb hundreds of coins at SatoshiDice.
It seems that here is an opportunity for namecoin to make itself useful for bitcoin and gain wider adoption. What do you think?