Renaming the Electron wallet

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Way cool

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Pyro is a pretty solid name, dig it

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I like both above mentioned: Firo Desktop and Ember

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My worry on Pyro wallet is like youā€™re throwing money into it to burn :wink:

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Oh my, didnā€™t think of that! Donā€™t know about yā€™all, but I ainā€™t got money to burn, haha

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Itā€™s not about the Firo, itā€™s about sending a message! :grin:

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How about Electron become FiroLite?

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I would be worried about people mistaking it for a lightwallet, which still occurs every once in a while. Considering it is a full node, and our rich GUI wallet, I donā€™t think FiroLite would give the right impression about what it is. I could be wrong, though. Thank you for offering up a suggestion, Saul. :slight_smile:

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I follow the ZCoin project since its beginningā€¦ and I donā€™t know the Electron wallet. For some, I might be an exception: I am convinced that I am a very common case.

What should be remembered is that the team wanted to change the name of ZCoin for Firo, which was very bad for the capitalization on the brand of our project. The size of the Firo project and its difficulties in making it known certainly do not allow to multiply the names according to the support of the wallets. Now you have to capitalize on the name you have chosen: FIRO.

So the wallet names must all be FIRO wallets, no other names. For instance :

  • Full FIRO wallet (or FIRO-Core, or FIRO-QT for the nostalgic): full node desktop wallet
  • Light FIRO wallet: desktop wallet without blockchain,
  • Mobile FIRO wallet: smartphone wallet, without blockchain.

Simple and effective: everyone understands, beginners as well as specialists

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The Electron wallet (not Electrum) is also a full node wallet, just nicer UI.

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Thank you Reuben for the precision: I was saying that I did not know it :-).

The 2 wallets are developed and maintained with the dev-fund?
If so, then the question is the usefulness of this double financial costs?
If itā€™s just a nicer UI, why not merge Firo-QT and Electron?

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QT wallet is the fastest to iterate from and our core developers are the most familiar with it. Most of the features would come to QT first.

The Electron wallet has more UI elements that need to be designed etc and has much more dependencies. Ideally the Electron wallet becomes the main one but QT is always the ā€˜referenceā€™ design and easy to iterate cross platform. The additional work to maintain the QT one is not so much as the Electron wallet still relies on all the backend work of the regular Firo daemon, itā€™s more on updating the UIs and interaction with the daemon for it and because of our limited resources, it tends to take a bit for it to be updated with new features.

We think the Electron wallet should be the main way to experience Firo but doesnā€™t make sense to deprecate QT.

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Thanks Reuben for explaining this point of view.

If our project had the success it deserves, maintaining an alternative full node wallet project could be legitimate. But given the state of success and finances of our project, it seems to me a luxury that we must postpone. The QT wallet is the universal historic wallet for Bitcoin and many altcoins.

My point of view is that our priorities are elsewhere and that we should focus on the few means that the dev team has rather than soliciting the community for donations for each new excellent idea. What concerns me is that the financing of development efforts generally goes through sales of FIRO, therefore participating in the sales offer on these markets. And the lower the price, the more FIRO you have to sell to fund a developer. So, I would be for hard moderation of these financings/sales of FIRO, for the moment.

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