[Bitcoin-development] Proposal: MultiBit as default desktop client on bitcoin.org

[Mike Hearn]

SourceForge has a horrible UI and blocks some countries. It also exposes us
to a large and potentially hackable mirror network. Whilst we're not
bandwidth constrained on our own servers, let's try and keep using them.


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at bitpay.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Daniel F <nanotube at gmail.com> wrote:
> > on 07/09/2013 06:56 AM Jim said the following:
> >> + it will bump up the MultiBit download from about 11MB to 30-40MB
> >> (I think). This drops the maximum copies of MultiBit the multibit.org
> >> server can deliver per day from around 90,000 to 30,000ish.
> >> The multibit.org server maxes out at 1 TB of bandwidth per day.
> >
> > You could host your downloads on sourceforge and achieve virtually
> > unlimited capacity.
>
> Indeed.  There is no reason to worry about download bandwidth these
> days, for open source software downloads.
>
> Move the downloads to a site where such worries do not exist.
>
> --
> Jeff Garzik
> Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
> BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/
>
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