Bitcoin clients that perform a reduced amount of processing or need a reduced amount of data compared with the bitcoin.org client.
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Are the Thin clients Electrum and Multibit safe and secure?
How do Electrum and Multibit compare for being safe and secure. Both are open source. Are there any advantages, security wise, to use one or the other?
I'm new to bitcoin and the only reason for ...
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What's the best Android wallet client for bitcoin?
There are many bitcoin wallet clients on android market. What is the best considering security, interoperability and usability?
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Why can't I spend my bitcoins when they have been fully confirmed?
I've used bitcoins for quite a while, but about a year ago I decided to dump having a thin client on my machine, and I've just kept my coins in various exchanges.
Yesterday, however, I wanted to ...
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Can I run p2pool with a thin bitcoin client?
Everytime I restart my mining machine due to heat, I have to wait the following sequence to mine at p2pool:
bitcoind -> download blockchain & rescan -> p2pool -> download shares -> ...
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Multibit vs Electrum - which is more mature and secure? [duplicate]
I'm having a hard time finding objective reviews / comparisons of these two 'lite' clients. Can someone who tried them both give some comments?
Thanks
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How popular are alternative clients?
Is there any data available on how many people use an alternative client in contrast to the Satoshi client? Alternatively, is there any data on how many times such clients have been downloaded?
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What client-side checks does blockchain's android client do?
Blockchain just came out with a great Android client, based on bitcoin-wallet.
In the description it says "No blockchain downlaod [sic.]". However, in the documentation of their sources, they say ...
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Thin client list
Is there a trusted thin client list somewhere?
I searched one for OSX and one for Android and I found next to nothing. That is: nothing at all for OSX, and only a source-only on github for Android ...
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How secure are various models of Bitcoin clients?
As there was some disagreement on security of various models of Bitcoin clients in comments to this answer, I'd like to address the problem.
How secure are various models of Bitcoin clients? Those ...
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How to backup Android Wallet?
I'm finally getting ready to install an Android client.
I believe Android Wallet is the most popular one.
How do I back up the bitcoins stored on it?
Also, is there a thin native Android client ...
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How do I generate offline transactions in Java?
I'd like to develop a Java binding to the Stratum Overlay Network (a server for thin clients). This requires signing on offline transactions.
Can I directly use bitcoinj's API to do this? Can I ...
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Lightweight client, bare necessities
What are the bare data necessities that a lightweight client would have to get from a server client in order to perform basic wallet tasks (show balance, transaction history, number of confirmations, ...
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Are there live BitcoinJS Exit Nodes?
Where can I find some live (trusted?) BitcoinJS Exit Nodes?
I'm looking it it from the client perspective - I want to write a Java app that doesn't store a blockchain. I don't want to setup an exit ...
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Copy wallet to Electrum or Multibit?
Is there a way to import my wallet from Bitcoin.org's client into the much lighter Multibit or Electrum? The disk space & bandwidth consumption (not exactly well presented to a beginner) quickly ...
