Reminder that ETH is literally a fucking shitcoin

I value ETH as*
Autocorrect bs

of course, they have no duties to token holders and instead of hiring developers, they are buying lambos and fucking ladyboys in southeast asia

I'm guessing the great idea is:
- developer: you should be able to deal with geth and mist (even if it's crap) so it's not a priority
- advanced user: metamask/mew
- normies: cipher browser/toshi wallet
- grandma: shouldn't even be aware she's using a blockchain
in a big picture way, figuring out safe scaling is more important right now than making an official light client. "Right now" might even be superfluous, with people advised to use parity in light mode until the end of time, who knows. People who want official wallet clients yet lack technical knowledge to work through the clusterfuck are likely SOL, because ethereum adoption will be dapps more than currency

I know that but still... It seems they are focusing on other shit and ignoring the fundamentals namely having a working fucking wallet.

My 'grandmas' PC has a 148gb HD, if that... where is she supposed to store the fucking blockchain data? In her ass? Motherfucker, her d/l speed is 90's Australia tier.

When you google "Ethereum official wallet", you get Mist. When you (as a somewhat knowledgeable person, let's say for anecdotes sake) download Mist, you get headache. When my grandma downloads Mist, she gets heart attack and/or stroke simultaneously, ends up in hospital, gets chest electro-shocked by those handle things, revived, recovers, heads to bingo and tell EVERYONE that Ethereum is a big fucking scam ponzi scheme and trojan'd her PC.

Is it too much to ask for a simple, user friendly, official wallet?

i got grams on token.im

How is mew advanced?

>That fucking picture
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Yeah but it shouldn't be necessary
Simplicity is underfuckingrated

True

solidity is a bullshit language made up by autists. gas is fucken retarded. private keys and addresses look like fucken serial numbers and are easy to fuck up, also a bunch of cuck faggot virgins are running the show. what could go wrong?

>This fucking trash doesn't even have a working official light client.
Um it's right there on ethereum.org
Takes about 3 minutes to connect the first time though

Well, there are ETH domain names now, which is cool... but then it becomes instantly less so when you realise they're being released in a retarded way already

No, it doesn't work. Look on github at literally THOUSANDS of people having the same issues. The light client is fucking useless

First of all, the geth node is for developers only and needs a server to run on. ‘Mist’ is just geth with a stupid internet browser, and I agree that it isn’t user friendly, but nobody uses it.
MEW or Metmask is for the normies and it’s (almost) as secure. The fact that it isn’t the first thing that shows up on google is google’s fault, not ethereum’s.

Second, the current version of the Ethereum network/EVM is basically a stable beta. Until we get some serious scaling improvements (POS/sharping/state channels) it can’t realistically be used for any real enterprise solution. That’s why it’s so cheap right now. You’re supposed to buy before the normies do, not afterwards.

>The fact that it isn’t the first thing that shows up on google is google’s fault, not ethereum’s.
No one gives a single shit who is at 'fault'... that isn't the point. Do you think someone is going, "Oh, well nevermind that it was all googles fault why I downloaded this buggy fucking wallet and gave up on this crypto stuff almost as quickly as I got into it out of frustration"
If many experienced users are having issues... what do you think new users are having?

Again, no one is talking about '''''''''''normies'''''''''''' making shit moon, etc. I'm talking about a functioning 'official' wallet that is user friendly and not a useless piece of shit that requires hours of troubleshooting before you even begin.

Compare that to something like Electrum and you start to understand my point. After literally years, I have never had a single issue with Electrum.

This is really the truth of the matter. OP is giving too much weight to how easy-to-use the HMI is for a complete retard, while the actual focus of the ETH devs is to create a functional, secure, and stable backend, BEFORE adoption starts to take off. They know what their priorities are, OP's grandmother just doesn't agree because she's an entitled 78-year-old millennial who wants her shiny new toy right now.

Wait... So you genuinely believe Ethereum, in 2018, shouldn't have a working, user friendly, non-dogshit wallet?

*inhales*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ethereum in 2018 effectively hasn't left beta testing, so no. Don't put the cart before the horse. Plenty of third-party wallets exist anyway, there' no reason for the core team to waste their time on it at this point.

These issues are old, check the current state of things before shitposting

Fucktard, how many cryptos even have both an official fat client and an official light client?

I agree in principle, but I'd rather others pick up the slack (like Metamask) and his Nerneness focusses on Casper and scaling.

My fucking grandma doesn't need to use ETH. True user-friendlyness would hide all that shit behind a debit card and a "payment request" button on web sites.

Ethereum didn't work on my hd (SSD is minium requirement to even sync) so I made one of my 256gb ssds store the chain. After about 3 days of syncing which made it impossible to play online games due to lag spikes, it comes back with a out of space error. I guess we have to either expose our private keys to mew or invest thousands in dedicated hardware and hope your isp is fast enough to use this garbage.

Please ignore my grandson, he's getting a smack right now

yeah i knew eth was a shitcoin the moment i had to use myetherwallet
still doesnt change the fact its valuable