biolizard89 wrote:
@phelix, Electrum uses libbitcoin; it's going to be extremely hard to use it for Namecoin unless we port libbitcoin. Also, Electrum's security properties are extremely sucky for name purposes... it's worse than using it for currency purposes.
@indolering, I'm pretty strongly against re-inventing another GUI. I think we should use an existing GUI if at all possible. Also, a web-browser-based GUI has immense attack surface compared to something like Armory.
I meant using an extended Electrum GUI as a local frontend for libcoin-namecoin.
but:
phelix wrote:Took a glance at the Electrum code and I am not so sure any more it can be easily adapted to libcoin.
biolizard89 wrote:
@phelix, Electrum uses libbitcoin; it's going to be extremely hard to use it for Namecoin unless we port libbitcoin. Also, Electrum's security properties are extremely sucky for name purposes... it's worse than using it for currency purposes.
@indolering, I'm pretty strongly against re-inventing another GUI. I think we should use an existing GUI if at all possible. Also, a web-browser-based GUI has immense attack surface compared to something like Armory.
I meant using an extended Electrum GUI as a local frontend for libcoin-namecoin.
but:
phelix wrote:Took a glance at the Electrum code and I am not so sure any more it can be easily adapted to libcoin.