Poll
Question:
Should we have a mailinglist for a new wallet?
Option 1: Hell yeah
votes: 0
Option 2: No, i check the forum everyday
votes: 0
Option 3: No, i will read it on social media
votes: 3
Option 4: Why do we need a new wallet?
votes: 0
Option 5: Blank vote
votes: 0
Hi there.
Not all will notice the announcment for a Wallet upgrade. Should the wallet get some sort of autoupdate function?
Maybe a "There is a upgrade to the wallet. Do you wish to upgrade?" dialog box, with an option to autoupdate.
The connections to the main Groestlcoin server could also be used to get a counter of how many Wallets are out there as well.
Thanks,
MrFixit
Hi,
I will try to give some answers.
Can we get autoupdates from the wallet?
- We will not implement this, until we have found a secure and simpler way than: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1453 (with rubberhose problem). It is considered as far too high risk to make it autoupdate the regular way (think of our server hacked, dns server hijacked, etc). We choose for the safest and that's manual update at the moment.
So is there any other way to get notifications?
- Yes, we could use the mailinglist like this: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ . Or follow us any social media (Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Irc etc).
How to verify that the wallet is not manipulated/corrupted?
- I have asked the dev to place the MD5 sums on the website to verify the downloads.