Gocoin: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:19, 13 May 2013

An open-source Bitcoin solution written in Go language (golang).

Can be built for every platform that has a working Go compiler.

Gocoin is licensed under GPL version 3.

All the unspent outputs are kept in memory, so switching between different wallets is very fast.
Allows a user to limit the upload and download network bandwidth used by the client.

For security reasons, it is supposed to be used with a PC that has never been connected to a network.
The wallet is deterministic and a seed-password based, so as long as you remember the password, you do not need to backup it, ever.
Additionally you can import private keys for your existing bitcoin wallet.
Has very low hardware requirements, so you can use it with i.e. Raspberry Pi

The client node requires 64-bit platform and at least 4GB of system memory.

No GUI
Works only with entire (mined) blocks - does not rely transactions, except from sending own transactions to the network
Requires a file system that supports large files (bigger than 4GB)

Gocoin was written by a single person for a private purposes. The software's first public release was announced in May 2013 on Bitcointalk forum.

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 ===Wallet===
-* For security reasons, it is supposed to be used with an offline (never connected to a network) PC.
+* For security reasons, it is supposed to be used with a PC that has never been connected to a network.
-* The wallet is deterministic and a seed password based, so as long as you remember the seed password, you do not need to backup it, ever.
+* The wallet is deterministic and a seed-password based, so as long as you remember the password, you do not need to backup it, ever.
 * Additionally you can import private keys for your existing bitcoin wallet.
 * Has very low hardware requirements, so you can use it with i.e. Raspberry Pi