Why Nostr? What is Njump?
2023-06-07 15:49:05
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Andreas Schildbach [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-08-21 📝 Original message:On 08/21/2015 07:55 AM, ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-08-21
📝 Original message:On 08/21/2015 07:55 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote:

> 2) Bloom filter usage has declined significantly, as lite-SPV clients
> are moving towards using centralized, trusted, servers run by the wallet
> authors. For instance
> [Mycelium](https://github.com/mycelium-com/wallet),
> [GreenBits](https://github.com/greenaddress/GreenBits),
> [AirBitz](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3etohn/whats_wrong_with_breadwallet/ctirou5),
> and [Electrum](https://electrum.org/#home) all fall in this category.

None of these wallets (except Electrum maybe) could gain a significant
amount of new users during the last year or so, if you look at the stats
of Google Play.

Specifically Mycelium lost a significant amount of users during the last
stress test when their centralized infrastructure was overloaded. As a
consenquence, their developer announced on Reddit to try moving the
wallet to SPV.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3db7qr/mycelium_servers_down/
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