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# Multibit is Deprecated - Do Not Use



Wednesday, July 26, 2017



Dear Bitcoin Community,



It is time for us to let Multibit go. 



KeepKey acquired Multibit a little over 1 year ago. At the time, the engineers who originally built and supported Multibit had announced that they would no longer be working on it or providing support. Multibit played an important role in the Bitcoin infrastructure. We felt that it was important for Multibit to continue and hoped that with our existing support and development teams, we would be able to keep Multibit alive.



The reality is that Multibit is in need of a lot of work. It has stubborn bugs that have caused us and Multibit users much grief. Additionally, Bitcoin has gone through a fundamental change in regards to the way fees work. The addition of SegWit in the coming weeks will mean the Multibit software has fallen still further behind.



Unfortunately, KeepKey simply does not have the resources to support the current issues, nor to rebuild Multibit to ensure ideal user experience. By focusing our attention on the KeepKey device, we will continue building and improving the best hardware wallet available.



Thus, KeepKey will discontinue support and maintenance of Multibit, effective immediately.



We recommend that all Multibit users discontinue using it and you move your keys to other wallet software of your choosing. 



## Next Steps for Multibit Users 

Videos that demonstrate how to move your wallet to Electrum are available on YouTube.



- Multibit HD: https://youtu.be/E-KcY6KUVnY

- Multibit Classic: https://youtu.be/LaijbTcxsv8



Please note that the version of Electrum available for download today (version 2.8.3) doesn’t fully support the importing Multibit HD wallet words. The version shown in the Multibit HD video is the soon-to-be-released next version.



Multibit was a fantastic piece of software in its time, and we want to thank the Multibit developers for such an important contribution to Bitcoin’s history.



Sincerely,



Ken Heutmaker



CTO, KeepKey 



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### Introduction



MultiBit is a Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) Bitcoin desktop client.



MultiBit is now in maintenance mode as it has largely been replaced by [MultiBit HD](https://multibit.org). To avoid confusion

we refer to MultiBit Classic and MultiBit HD to keep them separate.



MultiBit Classic relies on the following technologies:



* Maven as the build system, so the usual Maven processes apply. If you're not familiar

with Maven then [download it first](http://maven.apache.org) and follow their installation instructions.

* [ZXing ("Zebra Crossing")](https://code.google.com/p/zxing/) for QR codes

* [Bitcoinj](https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/) for access to the Bitcoin network

* Install4j for creating installers for Windows, Mac, Linux

* [Bitcoinj Enforcer Rules](https://github.com/gary-rowe/BitcoinjEnforcerRules) to prevent dependency chain attacks

* [XChange](https://github.com/timmolter/XChange) for access to several Bitcoin exchanges



### The Bitcoinj "Alice" dependency



MultiBit Classic depends on a special fork of Bitcoinj for its Bitcoin support. This is due to legacy wallet serialization issues

and the MultiBit team are working towards a complete integration through the MultiBit HD project.



While it is possible to build MultiBit Classic using our staging repository you may want to review the modified Bitcoinj library

for yourself. You can clone from this fork:

```

https://code.google.com/r/jimburton618-bitcoinj-coinbase-tx/source/checkout

```



The branch you should use for the MultiBit master code is: `bcj-0.11.2-mb-alice`

The branch you should use for the MultiBit develop code is: `bcj-0.11.2-mb-alice`



Once cloned, you should then install the custom Bitcoinj library using



```

mvn clean install

```



### Branching strategy



This loosely follows the ["master-develop" or "Git flow"](http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/) pattern.



There are 2 main branches: `master` and `develop`. The `master` branch is exclusively for releases, while the `develop`

is exclusively for release candidates. The `develop` branch always has a Maven version of `develop-SNAPSHOT`.



Occasionally a feature branch will be made off `develop` to cover a long-running issue. This will then be merged back into `develop`



When `develop` is ready for release it is subjected to extensive testing (manual and automated). The final act is to update the `pom.xml`

to remove the SNAPSHOT suffix and merge it into `master`.



The `master` branch is then tagged with the release number. Tags are in the format `v1.2.3` to distinguish them from branch names.



An announcement is made on the MultiBit website and social media (Twitter, Reddit, Bitcointalk etc) to alert everyone that a new version is available.



### Maven build targets



The important targets are:



```

mvn clean install

```



After some processing, you will have the following artifacts in the target directory:



* an executable jar: `multibit-exe.jar`



### Bitcoin Solutions staff



Use the Install4j installer in the multibit-installers project to create your Mac/ Win/ Linux installers.



To run MultiBit from these artifacts you can follow the instructions [provided on the main MultiBit website](https://multibit.org/help.html)



### Custom configuration



MultiBit Classic is quite flexible and has several features only accessible to power users through the configuration file. This

is discussed in more detail in [configuration.md](configuration.md)



### Contributing



All contributors must be OK with releasing their work under the MIT license.