rich1.0npub1xg2m84malu0cfm4444r0kysx4rgk27e75aj6sz6538kw8fcz627qeadsv7https://nostr.ae/npub1xg2m84malu0cfm4444r0kysx4rgk27e75aj6sz6538kw8fcz627qeadsv7njumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2015-03-12 📝 Original message:On 03/12/2015 07:27 PM, Natanael wrote: > > Den 12 mar 2015 17:48 skrev "Mike Hearn" <mike at plan99.net > <mailto:mike at plan99.net>>: >>> >>> b) "Creation date" is just a short-term hack. >> >> >> I agree, but we need things to be easy in the short term as well as > the long term :) >> >> The long term solution is clearly to have the 12 word seed be an > encryption key for a wallet backup with all associated metadata. We're > heading in that direction one step at a time. Unfortunately it will take > time for wallets to start working this way, and all the pieces to fall > into place. Restoring from the block chain will be a semi regular > operation for users until then. > > This have been mentioned a few times before, and what I think is > necessary is to create a common file format that can be interpreted by a > library which all wallets can use. I see it as similar as the work to > create libconsensus for parsing the blockchain. I'm afraid this will never fly. Wallets are just too different and that's a good thing! For example, by design choice Bitcoin Wallet and bitcoinj doesn't support multiple accounts. How would it ever import wallets from MultiBit or Mycelium? Bitcoinj-based wallets could probably share the bitcoinj protobuf wallet format (or whatever format we will be at the time of the "merge" – we already have tons of requirements piling up!). This would mean bitcoinj is the "consensus library equivalent" you were mentioning.