Michael English:
> Anonym,
>
>> Of course, mine too (and intrigeri's, I'm sure :)). Sorry for
>> frustrating you like this about something that is obvious for you,
>> but it indeed gets hard for us when we need to consider things we
>> have little or no clue about. And I'm sure you understand we cannot
>> just blindly trust and implement any suggestion we get.
>
> Yes, I understand. I think that it is unlikely that other Tails users
> will give their opinion, so could we at least put this setting in the
> documentation? Otherwise, I guess that we will have to abandon it.
I just spent an hour reading:
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https://medium.com/@lopp/the-challenges-of-optimizing-unspent-output-selection-a3e5d05d13ef#.63vst18ff
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https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/1203
First, let me say that I absolutely do not want this feature documented for end-users. I'm not sure how this could be explained in less a way so a user could make an informed decision without using thousands of words (with a thousand possibilities to misunderstand). So, yeah, either we enable this by default in Tails, or we completely ignore it.
Second, now I understand this feature better, and I feel quite convinced that it makes sense for Tails: we can take a selfish stance were we don't care about the potential negative effects this can have on the network and blockchain bloat; then only other drawback is potential increase of transaction fees, but that seems like a negligible effect to me. So, I say: let's do it! If you want to speed things up, please create a ticket about this, and assign it to me. Mega bonus points if it contains a patch against config/chroot_local-includes/etc/skel/.electrum/config. :)
Cheers!
