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Add more warnings about keeping computer on during name registration

See original GitHub issue

Users keep turning their computers off during the name registration phase. I think we can combat this in two ways:

More warnings about this
On browser restart we check to see if there is an active preorder and attempt to issue the second transaction if there is time before the NAME_PREORDER expires

This is a significant pain point for may users of our product and a significant negative experience right at the beginning of their relationship with it for those that run into the issue.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:9 (6 by maintainers)

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yknlcommented, Mar 30, 2020

It is no longer required to keep the browser running for name registrations. The transactions are signed and queued up on a server for broadcast.

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larrysalibracommented, Nov 15, 2017

+1 to this.

We should also consider making the pre-order transaction optional in the next hard fork. If you’re concerned about front-running, check the box and pay 2x the miner fees to broadcast a pre-order. If you’re not, don’t and get zero conf with 1/2 the price.

Related: other parts of the browser fail when the user doesn’t have internet in unexpected ways: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-browser/issues/1077