# Re: A few suggestions

Post by: satoshi on December 10, 2009, 07:31:49 PM

Quote from: madhatter2 on December 10, 2009, 02:00:17 PM

> Front ends can also be ran on clients with very low cpu power such as mobile phones.

That's a good approach for mobile. &nbsp;Programmatic API used by PHP (any language) to present a web UI covers remote admin, mobile and any other client that can't be online all the time with a static IP. &nbsp;It would be like webmail. &nbsp;It would be easier for new users to get started if they only need to create an account on a website, not install software.

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> The app could be pre-seeded before downloading. Pre-seeding would also cure the TOR+IRC problem. I know that people will want to run this system over I2P+TOR.

Yeah, we can phase out IRC when there are enough static nodes to preprogram a seed list. &nbsp;Once you get seeded, you don't need IRC.

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> Also you could pre-seed the blocks so they won't have to be downloaded upon initial run. (Downloading 28,000 blocks on a slower ADSL takes forever I couldn't imagine how long it would take when there are millions of blocks -- a lifetime).

There were some issues in 0.1.5 where the initial block download could get bogged down. &nbsp;0.2 has code to make sure it goes smoothly. &nbsp;It ought to take less than an hour, I think. &nbsp;I need to hurry up and get 0.2 out the door.

The blocks increase linearly, it'll be decades before it's millions. &nbsp;In theory, the block download time should top out 8 months from now when Moore's Law will be growing faster than the block chain.

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> Can you give me CVS access or something? (If not, can I send you patches?) I'd like to help out.

It's SVN on sourceforge. &nbsp;PM or e-mail me your sourceforge account and I'll give you access.

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> I am mostly a Linux/BSD guy and I would like to lend my expertise in those areas.

That's great because that's where I have less expertise. &nbsp;For instance, I haven't researched the best way to do the "Start Bitcoin on system startup" feature on Linux. &nbsp;On Windows, the option adds/removes an icon in the Startup folder.

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