balance-io / balance-open

Balance Open: A GPL3-licensed macOS menu bar app for all the world’s currencies.
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Add bitcoin wallet support #523

Open wolffan opened 6 years ago

wolffan commented 6 years ago

What is the expected behavior? Like ERC20 wallets feature. I want to be able to add a btc wallet as part of my portfolio

Which version of Balance is affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of Balance?

einsteinx2 commented 6 years ago

People will definitely appreciate this in 1.0.

wolffan commented 6 years ago

parser stuff done

wolffan commented 6 years ago

marking this as blocked until the refactor is done

jawiv commented 6 years ago

To echo others, when the code refactor is complete, I would love to see BTC/LTC/ZEC, but understand there's going to be a cutoff somewhere as its just not feasible to support addresses for every single digital asset at this stage...

Crypto-politics aside, adding support for some number of the upper echelon would be a welcome addition.

Or perhaps a framework that would allow the community to write plug and play address modules for whichever digital assets they choose to enable in-app? Kind of like packages within Atom...

wolffan commented 6 years ago

@jawiv we'd love to, but every wallet is a different blockchain wich means a different service/node to run and has potentially the same amount of workforce as adding an exchange. So future coins will have to be evaluated. Thanks for the feedback :)