Support USB NFC readers?

[multibit-legacy]

Support USB NFC readers?

[jim618]

There is currently a bit of work with NFC in the Android mobile space and it would be interesting to have it on the desktop. There are a couple of difficulties:

1. Mainly as a consequence of Java's platform independence, it is not that good with hardware and device driver support. There is serialIO support, primarily on Linux but there isn't a general platform independent solution.
2. Device driver support.
3. There currently is no agreed negociation protocol between a 'something' on the desktop/ phone and the NFC device. Here I mean at the level of API/ bitcoin tx exchange/ signing etc.

It would be interesting to have a fork of MultiBit where some of these issues can be worked on but I think it is too early for it to go into the production code that everyone downloads.

Also, at the moment I just do not have the bandwidth for experimental stuff as I am busy with more "mundane" things I am trying to get into MultiBit that will be of general use.

I will leave this issue open in case someone 'picks up the ball' and forks MultiBit and produces a solution.

[jim618]

There is work planned to support the USB hardware wallets but no NFC work is planned so I will close this request as a 'will not implement'.

[TurkeyMan]

Why not leave it open as a would-be-nice? :)

[jim618]

Hi TurkeyMan,
There are months of work to do on MultiBit so it's better to call a spade a spade and recognise it won't get done.