I am running 0.4.34 on windows and 0.4.33 on Mac and both are synced and seem to be running fine.
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I fell like i am banging my head against the wall with this. With my slow internet connection i am able to download a 700 mb torrent file in about 2 hrs, with eMunie i was able to stay in sync and they had over 700K in transactions. With NEM it took me over 6 hrs to get 400 mb. Nobody else sees a problem?
That's because those are completely different ways of downloading (The thought of downloading the blockchain via torrent protocol actually came up).
In torrent you load different parts of files from multiple different locations. Here you downoad everything from one location.
There's also the question how much of those 6 hours were actualy timeouts and not really transfers.
Once all problems are worked out you'll see how fast/slow it really is.
Even if using torrent protocol and the size have grown to a few GB, it still take a long time, maybe days / weeks for someone with slow connection… before can start using it?
E.g : if I want to use paypal. From register > assign card / fund account > get to use in around 24 hours. Don't know if there is other faster example.
I asked about this in another thread - https://forum.ournem.com/technical-discussion/data-size/
I have often thought about this and it worried me. Some people will want to use NEM and not run a node. It is plain and simple.
But they can't use NEM without a node so that seriously holds them back.
Even serious Nemsters might be on vacation, or at work, or some other place and need to send NEM and shouldn't have to wait for an entire block chain.
So to me that is why a mobile app is sooooo important. But the same thing that would be the equivalent via a browser would be really important to me too. I know this begs the whole "wallet" issue and how a person needs a wallet, but what I was thinking is the answer would be for there to be a program that can take a passphrase and make a seed/private key. That seed/private key then can be used with a centralized and trusted server that would allow people to just log in via a website and make transactions.
If I am not mistaken, that is exactly how CounterParty and Ripple are working right now. A passphrase is locally processed and then a key is sent out. I'm not actually too much of an expert on these things, but it is just something that I have thought about and has worried me.
I think downloading the whole blockchain and running a node should really just be for people that are looking to support the network and maybe harvest. These are people with bigger stakes and bigger PoI. But smaller little minnows, they just need a quick way to log in, transfer, and log out in just a few seconds.
Our dev team is pretty on top of it, and I know that a mobile app is high up on their list, so I think it must be possible to have a desktop app too that doesn't need an entire blockchain.
Haven't heard any talk about it, but I think it is something that needs to be in the roadmap for sure.
I know that NXT has SecureAE which is a website that allows a person to have a NXT account and send and receive NXT outside of the NXT client, but it is sooo slow.
