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Full MemberActivity: 151Merit: 100 Roadmap to 1.0? June 20, 2012, 10:14:31 PM #1 I'm just curious if there is a roadmap anywhere to version 1.0? What are the "must-have" features for a 1.0 release? Are we likely to see a 1.0 release within the next year? Two? More? I assume the next major release will be 0.7, we'll be running out of 0.x headroom pretty soon

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Hero MemberActivity: 816Merit: 1000 Re: Roadmap to 1.0? June 20, 2012, 10:36:11 PM #3

2. Scalability issues will have to be solved one way or the other.

3. Public key encryption of commuications between nodes needs to be added. Nodes will know each other only by public key. (prevents node fooling by connection manipulation).

4. The user should have the ability to specify the number of decimals so that satoshis are not the smallest unit.

5. The cryptographic algorithm used might need updating to prevent quantum computer related problems.

EDIT 6. The max blocksize not ignored should be settable by the miners/users, an equilibrium standard should form and evolve from then on.



4/5 are no rush 1. It will take at least 3 years.2. Scalability issues will have to be solved one way or the other.3. Public key encryption of commuications between nodes needs to be added. Nodes will know each other only by public key. (prevents node fooling by connection manipulation).4. The user should have the ability to specify the number of decimals so that satoshis are not the smallest unit.5. The cryptographic algorithm used might need updating to prevent quantum computer related problems.EDIT 6. The max blocksize not ignored should be settable by the miners/users, an equilibrium standard should form and evolve from then on.4/5 are no rush

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LegendaryActivity: 1652Merit: 1066Chief Scientist Re: Roadmap to 1.0? June 20, 2012, 11:45:10 PM #4 The things on my "good enough to be called 1.0" list are:



+ easy enough for my grandma to use

+ secure enough that it'd be hard for my grandma to lose her bitcoins, even if her computer is infected by 11 bitcoin-stealing trojans and then catches fire and explodes.

+ past the December block-reward-drops-to-25



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LegendaryActivity: 1652Merit: 1066Chief Scientist Re: Roadmap to 1.0? June 21, 2012, 12:12:11 AM #7 I'll buy my grandma a terabyte drive for Christmas.



No, seriously, a better startup experience is part of "easy to use" -- waiting hours for the blockchain to sync sucks.

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ModeratorLegendaryActivity: 3192Merit: 4310 Re: Roadmap to 1.0? June 21, 2012, 04:02:10 PM #16 Quote from: grondilu on June 21, 2012, 03:53:01 PM By the way, is there any plan to implement a "header-only" mode on the main client, as Satoshi described it in his white paper?



People are working on something better than that which won't compromise a node's ability to function as an autonomous fully validating node but will still make things much faster and use less storage.



More important than supporting header only (SPV) mode, but rather the ability to start as a SPV node and sync-up and transition in the background. But this isn't yet in the immediate pipeline. People are working on something better than that which won't compromise a node's ability to function as an autonomous fully validating node but will still make things much faster and use less storage.More important than supporting header only (SPV) mode, but rather the ability to start as a SPV node and sync-up and transition in the background. But this isn't yet in the immediate pipeline.

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Sr. MemberActivity: 462Merit: 250 Re: Roadmap to 1.0? June 23, 2012, 03:34:16 PM #18 Quote from: Gavin Andresen on June 20, 2012, 11:45:10 PM + secure enough that it'd be hard for my grandma to lose her bitcoins, even if her computer is infected by 11 bitcoin-stealing trojans and then catches fire and explodes.

I'd be really interested to read any existing discussions about how to reach that level of security. Does it need specialized hardware or a centralised backup system? (I know about multisig and how that would help, but it seems as though for that to be effective you would still need a trusted place to stand.) I'd be really interested to read any existing discussions about how to reach that level of security. Does it need specialized hardware or a centralised backup system? (I know about multisig and how that would help, but it seems as though for that to be effective you would still need a trusted place to stand.)

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LegendaryActivity: 905Merit: 1003 Re: Roadmap to 1.0? June 23, 2012, 06:08:05 PM #19 There was talk about using TPM modules to firewall access to private keys. That would help significantly, but I don't think this has advanced to an actual proposal yet.

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