Not sure if this is the right place, but since a few wallet authors
congregate here I though it might be the best place.
It seems every once in a while you see stories of people accidentally
paying huge fees. Today I read about a man who paid a 20.14BTC fee for a
0.05 BTC transaction[1], oops.
Yes I saw that on reddit too.
I think it applies mainly to custom transactions rather
than where fees are calculated automatically.
Another variant of not understanding change that loses
people's bitcoins I have encountered is:
1) Import a private key of a brainwallet/ paper wallet.
2) Send a
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Drak d...@zikula.org wrote:
It just occurs to me this kind of sad story could be averted if wallets
implemented a confirmation box if the fee amount seems crazy - for example,
if it's 10x what the default fee should be, or if it's greater than x% of
the
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Jim jim...@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
For the HD version of MultiBit we are removing the import
of individual private keys entirely and only supporting HD
addresses, primarily for safety reasons.
Will that also mean no longer reusing (change) addresses?
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Pieter
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Jim jim...@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
For the HD version of MultiBit we are removing the import
of individual private keys entirely and only supporting HD
addresses, primarily for safety reasons.
I'd love to have the same in Bitcoin-Qt as well. Too many sob
Providing people with a great user experience is something that Hive Wallet is
enthusiastic about, so this is stuff we’re thinking about constantly. For
example, how do you alert the user to abnormal activity (i.e. sending “too
much” on accident[1])? The removal of extraneous UI and
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Pieter Wuille pieter.wui...@gmail.comwrote:
Will that also mean no longer reusing (change) addresses?
Jim seems to be planning some parallel development to what I'm doing, but
HD wallets and stopping address re-use is the current feature I'm working
on for
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Drak d...@zikula.org wrote:
It just occurs to me this kind of sad story could be averted if wallets
implemented a confirmation box if the fee amount seems crazy - for example,
if it's 10x what the default fee should be, or if it's greater than x% of
the
On 12/16/2013 07:28 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
I don't know how to solve this. Badly designed software that looks
appealing will always be a danger.
One way would be to explicitly warn against some services. For example,
on the Choose you wallet page of bitcoin.org.
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