I really think someone should consider take a look at the wallet again and maybe try to fix it, it's not very stable atleast to me and I'm sure many other people are experiencing the same. It would take maybe months if not longer to download the whole complete blockchain for any new investors (I know you can download the chain and save time but it would still take atleast a week or two to download all the recents blocks and be updated). another major problem for me is, the wallet would freeze every day or two (while staking) and I will have to kill the program and relaunch, then it would take 4-6hrs to download like 3-6k latest blocks before it can stake again, and this will just repeats every other day. it's insane slowly.
Wouldnt it be a good idead to put the blockchain in the cloud so people dont have to load it anymore and always have the most recent data?
Yes, the problem of instability has also been reported by others, and has been analyzed and tested,
is an intermittent problem that varies significantly from machine to machine, AFAIK the fix to this
should be released with the next release.
For the moment, the best advice I can give is to not wait for the wallet locks, but close it manually
and restart it at regular intervals, before it freezes.
This will drastically reduce the problems and delays caused by the updating of block-chain.
I can not tell you precisely how much must be the interval, as I said varies from machine to machine,
you must decide according to your experience, but one or two times a day may be a good starting point.
Regarding the loading time block-chain in itself, it naturally tends to increase, we are now close to a million blocks.
Well, IMHO, in theory, there is no real need of a cloud, the navojocoin network is itself a p2p network,
in which the nodes continuously exchange new blocks data.
Surely Shahim, before launch of new release will produce an updated version of the bootstrap.dat zip.
And if I am not mistaken, Shahim had proposed as a hypothesis for the future, a secondary smaller
bootstrap system, with a series of partial data each of them limited to a few thousand blocks, that
the wallet would load automatically in a transparent manner when necessary.
(Ok, yes this is something similar to what you were saying earlier about the cloud, but made on a smaller
scale and therefore in more efficient way)
Bye