Does the Original Bitcoin Wallet Still Matter?
When it comes to user experience, the longest-running bitcoin wallet is hardly an iPhone 7. To use Bitcoin Core, users need to download a copy of the entire transaction history of the digital currency, a process that can take days and this is only becoming more burdensome as bitcoin's transaction history increases. This means that unlike other, flashier, VC-funded consumer wallets (think Coinbase or Circle) or open-source efforts like Mycelium, Bitcoin Core doesn’t fit on a smartphone, but it's still used for essentially the same functions – sending and receiving bitcoins. So, if bitcoin....
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