Steven Roose

> I honestly do not think XMPP is a good idea. XMPP, in my opinion, is a badly designed protocol that doesn't enforce even the most basic XEP guidelines for...

> Is this about XMPP as purely an inter-wire server federation mechanism? > > Or is this about wire federating with XMPP in general? As far as I'm aware, the...

> For general XMPP federation is there a straightforward way to ensure that user messages have the same or similar security as asserted by the wire marketing materials, or is...

How is progress going on this? Or is it summer also in open-source land?

This is a much wanted feature for me too! Any progress on implementing this?

@Yashiroo Well, that is already the case right now. But yes, with gRPC it would be very easy to use the API with any language that has gRPC support. We...

First iteration of implementation done. All functionality that I could think of is covered. Please review if I missed parts. Starting the server and listening etc is also implemented, but...

Implemented a wrapper client in `btcrpc/wrapper.go`. If it's preferred to have the client in a separate package, that's possible. Next up would be btcctl and a REST proxy. Also, I...

I don't think this makes much sense. Block times are really not an indicator for how far the sync is progressed. The first 3/4 of the chain is very sparse....

Besides, if some GUI wants to show a progress, we all know the first block is 3/1/2009.