Yes I know this has been "discussed" a thousand times already, but still... the blockchain is growing by around
1GB per month.
This is probably (and hopefully) going to grow exponentially as the number of transactions is quite directly connected with the number of users.
I don't even want to think when Bitcoin will enter Wall Street...
A lot of people use online wallets, and I think newbies will also use online wallets.
But many people immediately give up with Bitcoin though, when they see their Wallet client is taking ages to sync, but also hard disk space consumption is becoming annoyingly heavy.
This puts Bitcoin on track for investors etc, but puts off track common people that would like to enter the currency.
I think there are wallets that only download part of the blockchain. Also, I just leave the wallet syncing at night, and its usually done by the time I wake up.
So, if this has been discussed a thousand times, what where the "conclusions", and if the case, why no solution has been taken yet?
I think there are wallets that download only part of the blockchain, and ofcourse there are online wallets.
I am using Electrum at the moment and find it very comfortable.
The problem of course is security.
I also can't understand how I can trust the developers of it, how can I know they don't know my passwords and security passphrase, but at the moment, seeing my funds are very low, it's ok.
You can check the source:
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum