Unfortunately Hive isn't really being developed anymore. The web version might still be developed in the future, but as far as I know it's not compatible with BIP44 and it would be hard to change this without affecting existing users who have existing BIP32 wallets, so I don't think this will ever happen.

Hive Mac app connects to the blockchain directly (SPV), and can sign messages. There's no verify message feature though.

Hive iOS/Web is JS/browser based, so it connects to the blockchain through an external web service, and it has no sign or verify features.

Hi,

I don't work on Hive Web so I don't know what to tell you, but I mentioned this on out internal Slack now, hopefully someone will get back to you about this.

That's a nuclear option that will always be on the table, to be used when the disadvantages start outnumbering the advantages, but I'm not there yet.

If you read the crowdfunding info page (specifically "Why Lighthouse?"), it says there that I'm really doing this independently. I'm collaborating with Hive Labs to some extent, and we're keeping this under the same brand, but technically I no longer work for Hive Labs, that's why I need another way to fund the development.

Hi,

We've launched a Lighthouse crowdfunding - we want to fund development of Hive Mac 2.0 with HD wallet support. Please help us if you can afford it!

More info: https://mac.hivewallet.com/crowdfunding/
Reddit discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2wfd9v/hive_launches_a_lighthouse_crowdfunding_project/

BTW, if you're interested in helping with translations, Hive JS needs translators now: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/hive-js/

Hi everyone,

We've launched a Lighthouse crowdfunding project for Hive Mac 2.0 - if you want Hive to become an HD wallet and have multiple addresses, please help make it happen!

https://mac.hivewallet.com/crowdfunding/

Reddit discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2wfd9v/hive_launches_a_lighthouse_crowdfunding_project/

The whole matter kind of reminds me of this http://xkcd.com/927/...

Hmm, I haven't played with it yet, so I don't know - I'm assuming it uses BIP32 now? If so, then probably, but it depends on what specific configuration it uses. I'll ask on our Slack.

And now Hive Mac also has its own website http://mac.hivewallet.com

Hi,

we've created a new Twitter account specifically for Hive Mac, follow it if you're interested in any updates about the Mac app: http://twitter.com/hive_mac

That guy wrote that he had the password stored in plain text there, if I understand correctly. If you have a reasonably long password and you don't keep it in the open, it shouldn't be a problem to keep the wallet in a cloud backup.

Hi,

I've released Hive Mac 1.4.1 today. Not much has happened, but there's one thing a lot of people have asked about for a long time: private key export! (It uses the unencrypted WIF format, compatible with most other wallet apps.)

Only this at the moment: https://twitter.com/hivewallet/status/527859696523550720

Not anytime soon, sorry. 2.0 needs to happen first with BIP32 support, and then we'll see...

Hmm, no, I haven't thought about that at all. I haven't even used Coinapult before. Is it something a lot of people use? That repo you linked to, is that a fork of Electrum? So the official Electrum doesn't support it?

The chances are very high I'd say. I'm planning a few small 1.4.x releases, then a 1.5 that adds support for Waggle from Hive Web, and then a 2.0 release that adds support for BIP32, same way as in Hive Web, with a 12-word passphrase, address changing after every transaction, etc. There probably won't be multiple addresses as in multiple labeled subaccounts with separate balances at the beginning, but it's something that I definitely want to think about.

Hive Mac 1.4 is now available!

Direct link: https://github.com/hivewallet/hive-osx/releases/download/1.4/Hive-1.4.zip

The biggest change in this release is the transaction details popup that appears when you click a transaction on the list:



As you can see it includes: transaction ID (with a link to blockchain.info), some status info, metadata from a bitcoin: URI or payment request, and also the selected fiat currency and its exchange rate at the moment of sending. The share button was moved there too.

Transaction list entries (and contact list entries, since it's handled by the same code) also had a minor redesign and they look a bit more modern now without the gradient.

Other changes:

• payment transactions are now also broadcasted locally in case the receiving server fails to do that
• fixed matching of incoming transactions to contacts
• updated Chinese, Danish and Greek translations

And some selected changes from the 1.3.x releases if you missed those:

• added a warning that support for apps will be removed in v. 1.5
• added Norwegian, Persian, Thai and Ukrainian translations
• added Google Drive backup option
• µBTC is now called “bits”
• fixed compatibility with latest Dropbox
• you can now clear data saved by Hive apps

Also, the Arabic, Hindi, Korean and Urdu translations are still badly in need of updating. And Hebrew, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Sinhala, Slovak and Slovenian translations were started, but the translators seem to have given up pretty quickly...

Just to clarify, technically Hive for Mac only needs to be backed up once to allow you to restore access to the funds later, because it only has one address (which makes things simpler at the cost of privacy). Although of course we recommend backing up more regularly for various reasons (e.g. because there's some metadata saved with transactions which you lose if you rebuild the wallet from the blockchain).

(That said, I agree an Electrum cold storage with offline transaction signing is a better way to secure a larger amount of coins, I even have one myself.)

Please stop asking here, this thread is about Hive Mac, which will not have support for altcoins in the foreseeable future. Ask in the GitHub thread I've mentioned, or here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=663832. Or on Twitter.