Talking About The Future Of Electrum ABC
All cryptocurrency projects need signature wallets in their spaces, kind of a swiss pocket knife to handle custom transactions and other interesting advanced features. eCash’s signature wallet is Electrum ABC, a fork of Electron Cash. Since the rebranding and redenomination of the currency, which happened almost a month ago, the Electrum ABC wallet has undergone a set of changes to adapt its structure to the new philosophy.
To know more about these changes and the future of the wallet, eCash News contacted Bitcoin ABC developer Pierre K, the actual developer and maintainer of the Electrum ABC wallet software.
Pierre K has a very interesting resumé as he comes from a scientific background. Before entering the cryptocurrency world, he worked doing offshore oil exploration as a geophysicist processing data on a seismic vessel. It was there that he learned a lot of his current programming skills.
Then he moved on to a new career as a Software Engineer for Data Analysis in a synchrotron (nanoscopic imaging). After one and a half years of coding, he abandoned this world and started working as a developer with the Bitcoin ABC team. Besides his work on the Electrum ABC wallet, he has also contributed to the Bitcoin ABC full node software and regularly does backports that help maintain and improve the software backbone of the eCash blockchain.
Pierre K explained that the work done on the Electrum ABC wallet is now minimal, and they are currently focused on expectations of the new functionalities from implementing Avalanche. About this, he stressed:
“The current plan is to stick with Electron Cash backports with just a minimal set of patches to work for eCash. It's a codebase in a very bad shape, it would take a lot of work to put it up to modern software engineering standards. I would personally like to get some of the core code out of it, clean it up, and document it, to provide a simple library for other developers to write wallets. All the code from the graphical user interface is trash and should be rewritten from scratch.”
When asked about new features, the developer was quick to mention that whenever the new Avalanche features are ready, most of them will be featured first by the Electrum ABC wallet, with staking being one of the most important of them.
The future structure of eCash will allow for legacy wallets to coexist with new generation wallets that include the new features with the inclusion of Avalanche as part of the consensus. This was explained by another Bitcoin ABC developer, Antony Zegers, in an exclusive 2 part interview with eCash news.
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