User:Gmaxwell/features
Features I want:
- Type-2 deterministic wallets
- Multi-wallet (including non-spending wallets)
- scrypt wallet encryption
- disk corruption robust wallet storage
- Peer management RPCs (peer info (last connect, version, transaction stats, blocks stats), add, remove)
- A pseudo-cli interface for the GUI. e.g. file->console
- Transaction queuing (to improve coin selection and allow the use of sendmany without explicitly asking for it)
- Smarter coin selection (minds fees!), general MILP solver is probably too much. :)
- Better anonymity (avoid cross-linking), but multiwallet helps
- Wallet sweeping (avoid jagged coins, get excess inputs destroyed when you have a chance)
- Thin client mode
- Should be able to run many bitcoin-cli bitcoin-qt instances over the network against a single trusted bitcoind network node
- Offline wallet— BIP10ish
- NTP integration (if trusted, healthy, ntp— use instead of network time)
- Better network time intelligence
- Roaming connections (reduced attack risk, learn about peers faster)
- Lightweight node announce to (dns)seeds?
- Priority relaying (measure which nodes are most 'useful' based on blocks/txn-w-fees then relay to them before other nodes, relay to them first— move to front on good actions probably enough)
- Authenticated peers for addnode so a network attacker can't isolate you without your knowledge
- Peer management RPCs (peer info (last connect, version, transaction stats, blocks stats), add, remove)
- IPv6
- Onion-cat style onion peers
- Blockchain over satellite reciever (peak blockchain datarate 14kbit/sec, sat bandwidth isn't that expensive)
- Network sanity checks. Trusted peers down, network very slow? don't take txn out of unconfirmed.
- timewarp fix
- More DOS/network attack hardening (time skewing, memory exhaustion, etc)
- Fast chain sync (fix database stupidity)
- Read only chain summaries for old history
- Compressed blockchain history, decompress to build the summary preserving zero trust
- Backwards header sync, then fill blocks
- Operate as a lite client until synced up
- P2Pool
- Share in lieu of TXN fees
- No funds for anti-dos fee? Generate at least a diff N share with a commitment to the txn in the coinbase (paying whomever), distribute along with the txn (allows us to keep mining as our singular POW system, but still use small amounts of it without a pooling solution that works at cpu miner levels!)
- Directly pay pools txn fees via computation, attempting blocks that pay them.