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Title: What is the best Bitcoin client? Post by: JonMcAlpine on December 17, 2012, 11:25:43 PM I really love MultiBit because it's so quick, lightweight and has low fees.
What do you think is the best and why? Title: Re: What is the best Bitcoin client? Post by: gweedo on December 18, 2012, 03:51:42 AM It really depends for what you use bitcoins for and what works for you. I use bitcoin-qt and armory, they help me get what I want done the best.
Title: Re: What is the best Bitcoin client? Post by: jim618 on December 18, 2012, 10:05:25 AM I really love MultiBit because it's so quick, lightweight and has low fees. What do you think is the best and why? Hi Jon, Glad you are enjoying MultiBit. There is some quite nice stuff that has gone into the code in the last couple of weeks (currency support and your change is now spendable as of 0.4.17 - released yesterday) so if you are not on the latest version have a look at the new download. http://multibit.org (http://multibit.org) It's great to see all the clients improving - just off the top of my head I can think of: + Armory coming into beta + Electrum's new lite interface for when you just want to send some bitcoin. + the Satoshi devs have been working away on ultraprune and LevelDB which will benefit everyone when it comes out. + there are also Bloom filters coming further down the line (in the Satoshi client and subsequently the bitcoinj codebase) which will help the light clients filter their data. + you've got picocoin coming (I think it is still in alpha) which, combined with Bloom filters, should be very nice. + then there are more clients like VanillaWallet and the Ufasoft full node/ client too. Then further down the pipe you have got HD wallets appearing which will be another step up as the keys/ addresses/ pass phrases should all be interoperable (if we do everything right!). That will be a while yet I think. Related to the last item is the HD hardware wallet that Slush/ Stick et al are working on which I believe all of Armory, Electrum, MultiBit want to support. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122438.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=122438.0) Of course all the clients have their faults, quirks and limitations but you can pick and choose the one you want for the job at hand as Gweedo mentioned. They are all free after all. 2013 should be pretty interesting Bitcoin client wise. Title: Re: What is the best Bitcoin client? Post by: JonMcAlpine on December 18, 2012, 10:37:01 AM Thank you everyone for the answers! :D
Title: Re: What is the best Bitcoin client? Post by: skydust on December 18, 2012, 11:58:50 AM i'm a fan of blockchain.info :-*
fast transactions, no need to download blocks and some nice features. Title: Re: What is the best Bitcoin client? Post by: JonMcAlpine on December 18, 2012, 12:43:47 PM i'm a fan of blockchain.info :-* fast transactions, no need to download blocks and some nice features. Oh yeah I love Blackchain.info too. :) They gave me BTC0.02 for tweeting them but I gambled it and lost it, aha. Title: Re: What is the best Bitcoin client? Post by: nibor on December 18, 2012, 01:35:26 PM bitcoinspinner
Shame there is not one using the same bccapi for the desktop. Title: Re: What is the best Bitcoin client? Post by: JonMcAlpine on December 18, 2012, 04:47:00 PM bitcoinspinner Shame there is not one using the same bccapi for the desktop. What are the fees on Bitcoinspinnier? I might get it since I have an Android device. |