Looks like the forum on ethereum.org is pretty much useless. I asked some things but no answer at all. So I will try here again.
It looks like Mist is unuseable for me. I can't let it run all the time. Doesn't make sense.
1.) I tried to use the fast flag but it looks like I can't use it on windows in the newer versions. Is that correct?
2.) I use Mist because it is the official wallet and should have the full capability with smart contracts and so on. Is there a safe alternative that have all the full functionality like mist has? Myetherwallet.com has his own risks I guess. Parity lately showed broken multisig contracts, which is bad since I would use that. So can you suggest a wallet I search for?
3.) I want to accept ETH payments. Each investor should receive his own ether address which is rather complicated with the mist wallet, for example. I would need to have a connection ETH-Investment address and user. Any suggestion on that?
Thank you!
Hi SebastianJu.
1) Normally the fast flag should work but I think there are some prerequisites:
- you shouldn't have started downloading the chaindata yet
- you may have to first run geth using cmd
You should find a step-by-step workaround
here.
2) I've heard MEW, Parity and Jaxx are the most common alternatives to Mist out there (I personally use Mist). I don't think there is any problem using Parity if you want to, given that you don't use multisig wallets that often and that the sloppy code on Parity's multisig wallet contract has been repaired.
Please note that unlike Parity and Mist, MEW is an online wallet which you should have noticed given that you're talking about some "risks". That also mean that you won't have to run a node which means that you won't have any problem downloading chaindata if you don't have a good internet connection and an SSD but also means that you won't run a node (obviously) which is that less help for the network.
In any case, don't forget to save at least an UTC/JSON copy of your private key on some cold storage you own to prevent any ETH loss.
Finally don't forget to check that you're accessing the website of the wallet of your choice using the right URL: there's plenty of fishing attempts out there (especially for MEW).
3) If I recall correctly, you already asked for something like this some time ago (you wanted to create multiples addresses in a row). Now that I see you slightly changed your question, I understand that you gave up on your previous idea. I still don't see why all your investors can't manage to create their address themselves but that should be part of your business plan
Anyway,
ENS ledger is designed to make a link between a human-readable address and an ETH account. You may wan't to create an ENS domain name for each of your investors ?
Please note that if you wan't some answers to your questions to come, I think the
Ethereum official subreddit is the right place to go.
Thanks for you answer and sorry for the waiting time.
The fast-flag seems to not be useable anymore. The path "\Ethereum-Wallet-win64-0-7-4\resources\node\geth" doesn't exist anymore int 0.9.0. So is fast not available anymore? Is there a workaround?
It would be nice to have a way to save disc space like pruned on bitcoin. Ethereum eats a lot of my harddisc space.
Regarding 3.
What I search is a way to accept eth-payments. The individual addresses are only used to know which investor owns an address in order to know which uses sent an investment. With one ETH-Address everyone has to pay onto the same address.
I have something in mind like a website where users create an account with user and pass, maybe 2fa also. Then they want to invest and I provide them an eth address I only tell this user. By doing so I know that only he will know the address and only he would send eth on to it.
That's all I search. Otherwise a single investment address for all would be fine also.
