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SINCE I SEE many of users getting scammed, due to phishing sites. i will list trusted sites in this thread.
PLEASE Click Links Directly, DON't GOOGLE you may click ads and go to wrong sites .

BTC :

BCC/BCH ( BITCOIN CASH ) :

ETH (Ethereum) :


XMR (Monero) :


LTC (Litecoin) :

SIA (SiaCoin) :


Also, some multicurrency wallets :

Exodus (Windows, Linux, Mac) :
https://www.exodus.io/releases/

Jaxx (Windows, Linux, Mac, Android) :
https://jaxx.io/support.html

Coinomi (Android) :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.coinomi.wallet


WILL UPDATE MORE SOON  ;) ;) ;)

Hi, this is a great idea. Here is my contribution :

ETH (Ethereum) :

XMR (Monero) :

LTC (Litecoin) :

SIA (SiaCoin) :

Also, some multicurrency wallets :

Exodus (Windows, Linux, Mac) :

Jaxx (Windows, Linux, Mac, Android) :

Coinomi (Android) :

The problem with lists like this is that they look all lovely at first and people start complementing you on them, but way later a poster could always start replacing them with malicious links or make it look like a legitimate link but actually lead to a malicious one.

In fact, if you were intending to do that, you would do exactly what you're doing now and tell people not to search for the links on the Internet and only to click the links that you post.

I'm not saying you're necessarily a scammer, I'm just saying that if you were one, this would be a super easy way to do it.

True...
Maybe OP could write a big/red/bold disclaimer, saying not to click on the links, but copy/paste them instead ?

(Edit) or way better : put the links in code tags, then they could not be clicked. Like I did in my previous post.

why even create such a list in the first place?
there are already trusted lists around which people can use. lists such as bitcoin.org help for beginners to choose their wallets. https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

or lists such as this topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631151.0 which also describes what each wallet does and is created by a much more trustable member.

and as for your altcoin list, each of those altcoins have already a website or an announcement topic on bitcointalk which people must visit instead.

People will ALWAYS  click on links thinking they are going to the correct place, i've even questioned going onto legit sites even when i've gone through suggestions from this site.

Good idea.

I agree, but for newcomers (like me), navigating on bitcointalk and finding the right information / topic is not easy. I wish I could have a stickied topic like this one the first time I visited the forums. Even after two months, I could have a hard time finding what I am looking for. I think this is far from being useless (if done the right way)

your problem is not knowing how to search!
all the links above can be found with a quick google search.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+website > first result is bitcoin.org
https://www.google.com/search?q=ethereum+website > first result is ethereum.org
https://www.google.com/search?q=monero+website > I don't know what getmonero.org is and what monero.org is so I continue the search like this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=monero+announcement+site%3Abitcointalk.org > first result, topic from 2014, 3833655 views, 1790 pages > everything checks out. > this has the links

the same approach can be used for others too. you can also use websites like coinmarketcap.com that list all these in one place.

Fair enough.  A lot of the time phishing sites rank even higher on Google than the real ones - many people have been scammed by phishing sites of the Bitcoin mixer Bitblender, because a phishing site used to rank higher than the real site.  A lot of phishing sites also use Google's ads to trick people into thinking it's a higher result.

For wallets though, there is one in the Beginners and Help section, which ideally should be the first section you go to.  However I understand that a lot of newbies wouldn't do that as soon as they see the forum.
Yeah, that's way better.  What you should be doing though is talking to a trusted member about this, perhaps to direct newbies' attention towards the Beginners and Help section better.

You nailed it ;)  That's why scammer use google ads to attract more people for gaining traffic on site. Also  there are so many phishing attempts on social networks.I already uninstalled slack app from my android phone because hackers use bots to send fake myetherwallet site link almost every week.

Well, I don't want to sound like I know everything, but I'm working in IT/web. First result in a google search is not everytime the legitimate website. There are many black SEO ways to appear on top of a google search, especially when the legitimate website is a new one (= new altcoin). IMO a stickied post like this is way more trustable than a google search.

(edit) what about your links ? are we sure they do not point to malware websites ?  ;D
I know they are not ! But you see what I mean

Hey man this is a really good idea to protect people from clicking fake websites that will only scam people. Good work. :)

I don't want this usefull (and interesting) topic to go down, so :

NLG (Gulden) :

WAVES (Waves) :

thanks bro i will add more

thanks added !

 I don't want to sound like I know everything, but I'm working in IT/web. First result in a google search is not everytime the legitimate website. There are many black SEO ways to appear on top of a google search, especially when the legitimate website is a new one (= new altcoin). IMO a stickied post like this is way more trustable than a google search.thx for youre threads

If you avoid the sponsored links at the top you are already 90% of the way to not clicking the malicious links.

Anybody blindly clicking the first normal hit should deserve a slap in the face too.

yes but people use Internet Explorer

I don't see the purpose of telling them not to Google The links. As long as you make sure that you're clicking on a proper link once you Google something you should be fine. Now the one thing with this there that you going to have to look out for, is the original announcement seems to have valid links, but people could sneak in there quickly and put it invalid ones. If there was a way to close the thread that reopen it so that only the original poster was the one adding links to it that would be awesome.

What about this, how about you set up a Google Document, add to list to there and then include that link in the original posting. Then you have exclusive control over the Google Document and can update that as you see fit, while everyone else can see it.  I think this is the best option in this situation.

Or, do like I did : render the link non clickable and easily verifiable by putting it between [ code ] [ /code ] tags
Copy / paste-ing a link in the browser address bar is not so difficult...

That is the problem. Not only do scam links appear "proper", but people also tend to click on the first link on the page. The first links are generally ads, so scammers buy ads containing their scam links.

okay i will do that

This is what I use wallet and very high of my trusted rate here. I've been using it for a while and I have no problem here. Its features are also great because you can buy different types of altcoins here that are supported by their wallet. So it's trusted and I recommend it to my friends.

Good work OP and just in case others do not bookmarks this thread they could use Google search by adding bitcointalk to the search to get a clean result with legit links, this method as worked well for me and I know others could benefit from it to....

How to use, for example. "ABCD coin" you simply Google search "ABCD coin bitcointalk" and results will show announcement thread and other threads and if a scam thread appears you could visit the thread to know the latest happenings.

Thanks for sharing us

Thank you for posting like this here. It helps a lot especially to those people who were already scam and also to prevent other people from being scam by other people.

Thank you for sharing this useful information with everyone.

yes sure more links to come

Not in the google and cryptocurrency is legitimate you just read before you click the links because maybe you become scam and get a virus. Its good to check the information about you wants wallet before you click because that is for the sake of your coins, don't trust easily because maybe in the end you regrets.

Even though there is a sense of security in these wallets, I am a huge fan of the offline wallets because the person holding the offline wallet is solely responsible for his actions. Yes, it is true that physical security is also needed while maintaining the funds in offline wallets like a paper wallet or hardware wallet. However, as a beginner, web wallet is easier to use and understand how Bitcoin works but holding more than 5% of total funds on any web wallet or exchange is not recommended unless needed.