*** MOBILE WALLET UPDATE (iPhone and Android BiblePay Mobile Wallets) ***
Just as we had a lot of exuberance when we released our mobile wallet for the iPhone, it is dangerous for us to have potential landmines that might affect the our quality of service, so in the spirit of transparency, I am explaining the state of affairs with our mobile wallet and offering alternatives.
First I want to thank MIP for porting BreadWallet to BiblePay, as imho, it was a successful and useful product for us for our first few years. But I didn't realize the internal quality level started to drop violently over the last 6 months (our best guess is it has something to do with deterministic masternodes). MIP has also suggested that the internal code of breadwallet is so complicated, that it can't even be salvaged or fixed properly. This was after a suggestion that maybe we can rewrite the subroutines to be 100% reliable (IE, make our own seed node list, lock the BRD in the choice list, process Txs over again if they fail) but he reported to me, the work effort is too complex to salvage it and we would be better branching off to an alternative mobile application.
For now I have him looking into the level of effort to release BBP into TrustWallet and he is looking into other alternatives also.
I just wanted to give the users my perception and alternatives:
- I'm hearing complaints that our mobile wallet is not syncing properly. Its very hard for them to go through troubleshooting steps. Its draining dev time to look at the problem. They don't know how to get the BBP out. We have a tool that you can use to move your funds out of BRD and into the PC. Ill ask MIP if he can post that here.
- I want everyone to use caution before using the mobile wallet. You may want to prefer the biblepaycore home PC wallet instead for a while.
I'm going to quickly roll out a 'stopgap' measure that people on mobiles can use in the meantime while we transition to another mobile wallet. Our unchained product in alpha can be programmed to work in prod as a mobile wallet. I'll release the testnet thread for that shortly.
Thanks!
8200 BBP