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Why? What's the major requirement for your btc client software?

1. Security > 2. Style/Neat > 3. Local Resources (cpu, mem, storage) > 4. ?

Blockchain.info and Electrum.

Voted Electrum since it's where I have most of my Bitcoins.

Being very new to all of this, I went with the original (Bitcoin-qt) client.

It seems to do the job, I'm not sure what else a client is supposed to do other than store coins, and offer encryption?

Where is MultiBit in this survey???

I use MultiBit, no blockchain, a good interface, it's what i need.

MultiBit uses the blockchain, it's just significantly smaller for reasons I can't remember. Anyways, your right, MultiBit should be in the poll.

I use Electrum.

It loads in few seconds, it is not the qt client blockchain.

It's significantly smaller because it only stores the block headers, which are tiny. Currently it downloads the entire blocks (but downloading isn't the hardest part, storing them in an indexed database is). As soon as bloom filters are implemented, bitcoinj will be capable of only downloading the transactions that concerns the client.

Do you guys use offline/paper wallets as well?

Presumably many other things, that's why there are different clients being developed.
Usability, style, everexpanding blockchain in the cloud instead of our storage (Electr & MultiBit),
Electrum for instance provides some recovery options as well (seeds), what else?

A shame but many clients keep the wallet.dat file in the same directory with other files (blkchidx)
this way it's impossible to utilize symlinks and move the wallet to another truecrypted partition..

I use Electrum for its low bandwidth requirements. Its also pretty neat.

Now it's there..

Yes it is pretty neat..

Just the standard QT bitcoin Client.  It's only I love QT framework ;)

Original ftw!

I actually installed a bunch of clients, but I find electrum the best. Multibit would be good, but there's no way to encrypt the wallet.

I'm liking Armory, seems to have the best feature set. I like the click to copy address as I'm always worried Ill mess it up with a right click and cut!

Its also got some anti-corruption ability or something... cant be safe enough.
Oh and it runs on linux which I am about to install on a laptop just for my coins... my precious!

I use BlockChain.info becuse it is easy to use an very light and fast!

Do you have to trust your private key to the server?


Hmmm.. Actually Qt is quite popular...

When it is working as intended, the server only has access to an encrypted copy of your private key.  The private key is decrypted in your browser locally when needed.

It could be possible for the site to provide you with an altered version that could capture your password and send it to the server, but I think there is a browser plug-in that you can install to alert you if this happens.

bitcoind. it uses much less memory and cpu.

That's correct. There's a plugin you can get for your browser (https://blockchain.info/wallet/verifier) that checks the javascript of blockchain.info against the javascript in blockchain.info's github, and if something's not right it will notify you.

EDIT: Also, to answer the poll, I started with blockchain.info's hybrid e-wallet, but decided I wanted a desktop program for my wallet and am now happily using electrum. nothing wrong with blockchain.info, just personal preference.

Running a full Bitcoin-qt node on my desktop (which also happens to mine 24/7), but store my funds in an Electrum wallet on my notebook. That'll probably get more more rust as I slowly get a finite amount of BTC, however.

I have a blockchain.info wallet, and instawallet, and a BitCoin-QT on my computer.  I am still waiting on the first sync with QT, after installing a few days ago.

I like the ease of instawallet, but the blockchain.inf wallet seems a bit better, has a decent API and more features.

I'm going to play with all 3 for a while until I decide on one that I like the best.

I use Bitcoin-QT so I can support the network with a full node

Blockchain.info wallet comes in handy for mobile payments and in-person transactions. 

Paper wallet for long term storage. 

i tried the satoshi client, but the download took forever(never finished it), and I found out about electrum, been using it since then

No matter what your main client is, I think people should run Bitcoin-QT to support the network!

As more people come on board I imagine we will need more nodes.
Hopefully some more big servers will be set up to take the load.

Good point man, did you compare all of them?

Being resource wise is essential these days.

Though the storage space is one extra parameter to consider..

I use blockchain.info but with the bulk of my bitcoins stored in a brainwallet (address as a watch only).
I also keep the blockchain up to date on the Satoshi client because I want to contribute to the network

At first I started using BitcoinQT, for about one year. Then I switched to Electrum because I got tired of updating the blockchain. When you were not online for a few days it took some time to do so...
And by the current growth of the blockchain it might even take longer in the future.

As I understand it, just being a node really doesn't have any significant impact at this point. If your not mining, there's not much of a point in being a node. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

Been using Bitcoin-QT since started playing with Bitcoin, early 2011.
Kept it running inside a VM.

Armory hands down.

 Bitcoin-QT here! Haven't had any issues with it.

Bitcoin-QT on the server and MultiBit on the desktop.

Armory is nice  :)

I use BitcoinQT .. just saying i used Armory

I'm liking Armory for the offline feature but I originally found it searching for deterministic wallet hoping to find one where I could use my own seed so I don't have to write it down.

Is there a client that can generate a wallet from a specified seed? The length of the seed doesn't matter but I want to be able to generate it from an ASCII string of a the required length. I have memorised an algorithm that I use to generate any length of string so I don't have to remember a long phrase or write it down.

too many options!!

1) Bitcoin QT
2) Electrum
3) Blockchain

I use blockchain.info :)

Ive found electrum to be pretty neat, no need for storing and updating multiple wallets, no need to leave the computer on for days updating the blockchain, and if you lose your wallet you can get it back by typing in a string of random words that are easy to write down.

Online wallets make me nervous.

Why?

The day they disappear... well good luck  :)

If you keep a backup of your wallet, I don't see why that would be a problem?