Q: How to use a remote node?
A: if you don't have the 6-8 Gb of RAM presently needed to comfortably use your computer whilst synchronising the blockchain with bitmonerod, you can use a remote node, like hegemoon's node. This means you don't have to run bitmonerod anymore (this does negatively affect decentralisation, but not much)
For Linux:
Change wallet.bin accordingly. The code above assumes your working directory (use pwd or ls to check) is the one where both your wallet and your simplewallet binary are located.
The daemon host and port are hegemoon's, but you can use another one.

Tip1
You can install then use rlwrap to cycle through commands on the Linux version (no need for this in the Windows version)

Tip2
To be sure to always be on the right directory for launching simplewallet, just add a command to go to the right directory

Tip3
You can combine both:

./simplewallet --daemon-address xmr1.coolmining.club:5012 --wallet-file ./test1.bin

No, the node sees the same transaction everyone else sees (e.g. by looking on chainexplorer.com, or the blockchain itself). That by itself doesn't include anything particularly useful (and can't).

With Tor the node could not correlate this with an IP address, which would be the only extra information it has if the mixins are blinded using multiple nodes as I described. The nodes would have to collude to identify the real source of the transaction.

SSD installed.

Just under 30 seconds to write the blockchain to disk.
It was just under 45 seconds on the same machine with a HDD.

I'd like to announce the first alpha release of my unofficial lightweight GUI simplewallet wrapper, lightWallet. Using this program, you don't need to run the bitmonerod daemon on your own computer or do anything on the command line. By default it uses hegemoOn's (a long time Monero supporter) open node, although you can change it to use a different node (Atrides recently announced another one, for instance), or you can set it up to use a local daemon.

The release binary ( https://github.com/jwinterm/lightWallet/releases/download/v0.0.1-alpha/lightWallet.exe ) is a single file that has simplewallet.exe wrapped up inside of it, so you do still still need a 64 bit machine. Please check out the README.md file here as well:
https://github.com/jwinterm/lightWallet

I'm still working on the tx history part, and I'd like to add an address book, but since simplewallet itself doesn't really have either one of these features, I figured I'd go ahead and release it, since we have (at least) two open nodes to choose from now

The program should work to create new wallets or import non-deprecated wallets from their keys file (wallets with an electrum seed). There is an issue with simplewallet itself that prevents importing deprecated wallets at the moment, but this should be fixed in the next simplewallet release. The created/imported wallets will be stored in your My Documents folder in the lightWallet folder.

Here are a couple screenshots of the first two tabs:





Let me know what you think. I hope some people find it useful.

Je suis le seul à holder encore du coup ?

Bonjour,
...
Mais je me suis depuis peu intéressé à l'univers des altcoins anonymes car j'ai l'impression que c'est quand même quelque chose de sérieux et qui offre des possibilités tout à fait nouvelles et très intéressantes. J'ai été attiré par monero qui semble avoir un grand potentiel.

Par contre je trouve étonnant qu'il n'y ait pas encore de GUI digne de ce nom pour une telle monnaie. Est-ce que c'est normal? Est-ce que des développeurs continuent à gérer cette monnaie? Si oui, peut-on savoir qui ils sont, combien ils sont et sur quels projets sont-ils en train de travailler ou envisagent-ils de travailler?

On veut un nom.