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Today morning i got an email from blockchain anouncing that they are now accepting ethereum.
Blockchain members now have option in their wallet to receive,send,transfer eth. What are your opinions? Have you interacted with newly added currency?

it seems a lot better than all the other alternatives for a web ethereum wallet. but I kind of find it weird that they don't even have a block explorer for ethereum but they added its wallet! I hope they add the explorer soon too, it is very useful and necessary to have with this type of web wallet.

the good thing about it is that you will control the private keys and won't be like Coinbase. and also you won't have the headache of dealing with horrible ethereum wallets and their bloated blockchain which is much bigger than bitcoin's.

here is the link by the way: https://blog.blockchain.com/2017/08/17/blockchain-wallet-adds-ether/

If you can't export your private key in a click of a button then Its useless I'd say also a lot of people are using the ERC20 tokens and not ethereum itself so again, they will be losing a lot of users If they are not supporting that, I say Myetherwallet is still a better alternative for the moment.

A so called Bitcoin evangelist company is now offering Etherum solution. What a crime. It will end like Coinbase, every 2 years they will add new wallets like litecoin, dogecoin, ethereum classic, etc And I agree with the poster above, most people are interested with ERC20 tokens, so they are putting a limit themselves

I have just tried it but haven't done any transaction with my ether wallet there. We can actually export our private key which is really good and they also have inbuilt exchange feature which can be really useful. I hope they will also add support for ethereum based token in future.

http://altcoin.media/2017/08/18/blockchain-info-wallet-added-support-for-ethereum/

this is the big issue i see. at first, i was excited, since MEW is occasionally unusable/service down.

with the ICO craze still in full swing, and airdrops still flowing left and right, it'd be great to have more options for reliable web wallets with access to ERC tokens. i don't really need another web wallet just to store ETH. i have a desktop client for that. hopefully they will add support for ERC tokens in the next few months. i'm sure there is demand for it from their customers.

Well, MyEtherWallet is just a client so you can see and manage your wallet from your key. Since you have access to your private key, you can access your wallet anywhere, even if the wallet is down. That's why MEW is the best option if you want to create a ETH wallet.

Blockchain is essentially hosting your private keys for you. Not the best option and not offering all the freedom you should have.

OP, please edit thread title, because it makes no sense. It should be Blockchain.info, not just Blockchain, because it's different things.

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Well, I thought that Blockchain.info wallet is only for bitcoins and I didn't expected that they can add Ethereum or any other coin. But anyway, it's not bad for people, because there was lack of good online Ethereum wallets.
And now I think we can expect that Blockchain will add more coins eventually, similar like Coinbase.

I don't know if that's true since I haven't got a notification yet but what I know is they have added BTC to ETH conversion using  shapeshift API.The idea is however WIP and one shouldn't really trust them for storing ETH at the moment.You can read the blog post here,
 https://blog.blockchain.com/

I also got that new from them and with that I got that now blockchain believe on the success of even either. With that announcement it is sure that after Bitcoin Ether will be the second successful crypto currency of the crypto world. By the way that attempt of blockchain is appreciated as I love that wallet but the problem in that wallet is that when the password and they key words once lost then it is not easy to get back your coins.

Blockchain is good wallet and most trusted platform in the world. They have good service with bitcoin but I don't think adding up ether blockchain in their wallet is much better thing. There portfolio best fits with bitcoin and not altcoins really. Why would anyone try out ethereum on blockchain if there is specific wallet like MEW to work with ERC20 standards. Plus most of the ICO accept MEW so in any case blockchain will result in poor customer base who use ether.

This is very unexpected and so very sudden. Im one of the Ethereum skeptics here in this forum, but does the acceptance of ETH in blockchain.info signals that Ethereum really has a future? I very much doubt that and I think that they are making a mistake.

Dude this has been planned this year starting itself. US commerce department had meeting with Blockchain team about collaboration with them. After that there is no news about that meeting. Then suddenly eth started increasing along with bitcoin from this year's February. After that to now bitcoin and ETH competitively increase to high value.

Blockchain.info is known as Bitcoin wallet, adding Ethereum wallet is not bad, but i think without allowing people to get their private keys , it will not be really used. My ethereum wallet is now the best wallet for Ethereum and it is used by the biggest eth community

For now i think they are just added it but they are still not added own ethereum just let us wait to the blockchain to be added the explorer and also for exporting and importing private keys features for now this is a sign that they are supporting ethereum too as alternative of bitcoin..
Hope that it can't affect the value of bitcoin once its clearly ethereum will be safe in blockchain ..

I don't see anything bad in adding new coins. For me it's not comfortable to create new accounts for every wallet. I prefer control all in one and especially when you have wallet which you can to trust.
I think it's a good idea from blockchain's side, many people uses their wallet and I believe they will have more customers if they will add good wallet without problems and bugs.

Well many places where you can buy and sell bitcoins online are adding ethereum and litecoin as of lately so this move is a great one from blockchain.info

The more coins a wallet offers the better but also it becomes a bigger target for hackers. Since we all know that some of the blockchain.info accounts were hacked before now that they have add a new coin, hackers will be more eager to hack this wallet. I hope they have taken precautionary provisions in order to offer users a hassle free wallet.

2FA is a must for every user of this wallet, I don't use it personally but did so in the past.

given ETH's value, this will definitely make each individual account more valuable on average, as people start using the service to store their ether. so yes, strong password and 2-factor is a must, as hackers will begin devoting more resources to hacking blockchain.info wallets. the other issue is MITM attacks. they recently had more VC funding, so i hope they have put a lot of money into making sure their service isn't compromised.

that's my biggest fear with using their wallet. it seems much safer to use a dedicated desktop wallet that you have control over. a lite wallet like electrum is really not very resource-intensive, and you can also use 2FA with it.

Dont really understand why they have added Ethereum in the wallet, its not their way really. MEW is well know and focused wallet for alt coins. Blockchain seem to compete the market by adding up the Ethereum option as I don’t think there arena other wallets who supports both bitcoin as well as Ethereum altogether. Anyway, its good for the user of blockchains they will have the opportunity manage only one wallet for both bitcoin and ether as well. Hope this addition will also late the user hold private key but as the blockchain is public one they might just hold the keys by themselves which won’t be helpful in gathering the users. Hope they add up some features demanded by users. 

There are now more transactions done on the Ethereum network than on the bitcoin network. No company can ignore that, especially as Ether seems to be developing all sorts of applications and layers on top of it.

Ethereum has a massive user base, which is why it is a smart move from blockchain to add Ethereum, but I strongly believe that its popularity as it is right now, won't last endlessly. People are going nuts on Ethereum because of the massive amount of ICO's, where hundreds of thousands of coins get locked in. I am sure that if there was no ICO hype, Ethereum would still be an average altcoin.

Developing Ethereum as a token distribution platform for ICOs was brilliant. It never dawned on me a year or two ago how this would dry up the liquid supply of ETH and therefore cause massive growth like we saw earlier this year.

I agree that this ICO hype is not sustainable in the long term, but I wouldn't be surprised if there is still another leg up to new all-time highs this year. The ETH market still feels like it's in a long term bullish consolidation; it didn't give us that signature bubble pop that we've come to recognize from the BTC market.

They have integrated with shapeshift too for exchange BTC to ETH or vise versa.
I'm personally not interested, besides have bad experience with the wallet, it's because there's no block explorer for ETH, it's seems shady, and I'm not sure it's good time to try their ETH wallet (fill with balance).

While I do appreciate the fact that they added Ethereum to their website, the main reason I use Ethereum is to hold ERC20 tokens for cryptotechnologies that I believe have a solid foundation and roadmap. Without support for these tokens, I do not see myself switching wallets for Ethereum holding.


I still use blockchain.info as my main hot wallet and have not heard or experienced anything bad about it. If I may ask, what bad experience have you had with it, since I would much rather be well informed than ignorantly using a wallet that could end up being insecure?

I am not sure about their etherum wallet, however their bitcoin wallet is recoverable via their seed, and users can export their xprivkey and private keys via a java console -- I would presume their ETH wallets are at least somewhat similar.

They are trying to adapt to the marketplace. There is no reason why they should support Bitcoin only when there is a major market demand for other coins.

I suspect that it's part of their longer term plan. I think they are rushing to tap the Ethereum market and position themselves. The fact that they don't have an ETH block explorer yet tells me the same. I think they'll have support for ERC20 tokens in the coming months, as well as a block explorer. If not, they don't know what they're doing (or why Ethereum is relevant).

It's happened in the past, not just me there are a pretty much people on this forum made a topic about their blockchain.info wallet was hacked, security system bug, wallet bug, block explorer bug, ect. You can search that on this forum. And in the past blockchain.info wallet listed on bitcoin.org wallet list, but after the "incident" they have been delisted.
Although that was happened in the past, I'm still have traumatic.

I think this service is same as coinbase service nothing special, and I am still more comfortable using MEW as my personal wallet for ETH. I'm not worry if MEW site down because I still have access to my balance, cause I has Private key.

it's not the same as coinbase. coinbase is a third party wallet/exchange service. blockchain.info doesn't control your bitcoin/private keys. with their bitcoin wallet, each user has a bip39 seed and they can also export private keys. the same applies here; ETH holders using the blockchain.info wallet have access to their private keys. the same is not true with coinbase.

it's still not ideal, though. in both cases, a lite desktop client provides superior security for a minimal loss of convenience.

Today I also see blockchain accepting ethereum. Its good sign for blockchian user. every body know we use blockchain for bitcoin wallet now we can use for ethereum. Its good for me and us.  I know we get some issue about privet Key in blockchain user. but it will be solve ASAP. Blcokchain just started new thing.

But My Ether wallet is best wallet for ethereum User. Because MEW accepted ERC20 and now ERC23 Token . I wish blockchain will be upgrade ASAP.

Thank You

Since I've left blockchain wallet, never look back at just found out about this news. So, we can send-receive ethereum, right? or blockchain wallet just added eth conversion? as they said: we’re excited to introduce a built-in BTC to ETH (and vice versa) exchange.
Well, I guess it better than any other ethereum wallets if we can convert bitcoin into ethereum directly through blockchain wallet.

How about ETH based tokens? Does blockchain.info support the tokens like myetherwallet?

I am interested in will this option allow to move tokens on that Ethr address on Blockchain.info or it is just for Etherum coins and that is it?

so far it doesn't seem like they are supporting them.
but i believe it may be a feature they are going to add in the near future. this wallet for ethereum is very new after all. it takes time and if there were enough demand for it, i am sure they will do it.

This is really great news, Blockchian.info is one of the biggest BTC wallets and the best one for beginners to use now that it's also supporting ETH is great. I might shift back to using blockchain.info wallet if make a dedicated ETH wallet.

I saw that today too. I'm not really sure what the purpose is since it doesn't seem like you can exchange back and forth between BTC and the other, so I guess I'll it's really doing is just saving you a step of switching from one website to another just switch from one wallet to another or maybe they're simply trying to integrate some of the stronger coins together.

Yes, i logged into my blockchain.info account this morning and saw the same notice.

Previously i've had to either use myetherwallet which was developed by mostly anonymous people and a pretty fragile reputation, or i had to sync my wallet manually which would take a crap ton of bandwidth and disk space(and time, obviously).

But this is perfect, a simple wallet for ethereum investors that just want to have convenience in storing their coin.

I wouldn't recommend storing anything above 10 ETH on the web wallet though, it's not as secure as a good old paper wallet/desktop wallet.

Why would I use a service that requires me to create an account/login and stores my private key when I can do everything (even ERC tokens) on MEW using just my private key which is locally stored?

Why did you quit using blockchain.info before? it's better if you use mew. if or when their front end is down you won't be able to send your eth unless you have private keys, do they allow private keys export?

they do but as much as I know only from imported addresses. and right off the bat, I'm getting an error while trying to exchange btc to eth saying "Failed to load exchange data"... It's funny how whatever I try to do, there must be some error just waiting for me.

Please don't break SegWit!  :D

Lol I wonder how long until people realize these dumbasses can't be trusted with your trustless assets. Oh well, just keep popping your money in until they lose it or it's stolen from them good luck sheeple. Maybe try googling blockchain.info scam or blockchain.info algorithm etc. It's a good lesson.

haha I can become a villain, going around using and touching stuff so they break. :'d  Tho I've resolved the problem, more precise, my wallet address was the problem. So that's resolved for now.

Their move on having an ethereum wallet alongside with their BTC wallet is a good one especially on their current users. My only concern here is if you can export your own private keys from their website with just few clicks. Please understand that I haven't used their wallet since then so I don't know how they handle their private keys or if they even provide one for their users.

I got the email too and have noticed they added the ether wallet. The best part what I like is, they have a inbuilt exchange between Ether and Bitcoins. This will help marginal traders to interchange between the two cryptos all in one place, and since it's in the same place, the exchange is supposed to be instant too.

One of the biggest online wallet incorporating Ethereum proves that the ethereum market is on the rise.
Though many are skeptical about it as I see the negative remarks, I find it a good solution for bitcoineres who want to enter the ethereum market without the hassle of downloading a wallet.

After all Blockchain.info is a business house and they must have seen the potentiality in the Ethereum market. The inbuilt exchange which they are offering will be an added boon for the users as well as the company itself. The biggest worry about blockchain.info is, they don't give access to the private keys.

The good thing is I was able to easily exchange some bitcoins for ether on blockchain.info but the rate left a bald taste in my mouth. All in all a good development.

Damn! I miss this damn thing I was able to send my bitcoin already to an exchange and I was hoping to have some ETH, anyway I know that this will be stable as good to go.


They sure really are seeing a good market for the ETH users and as MEW is the most popular one, I guess they want to beat it.

Sorry, but I don't quite get it. As someone who has been using their service for quite long, it was unsettling to hear that people might have been having trouble with it. However, as you said, I google "blockchain.info scam" and came up with absolutely nothing about it. I also googled for "blockchain.info algorithm" and once more nothing out of the ordinary was present. I would like to know what exactly you are referring to in case you are right, but I have not seen anything concrete about it.

Hi,
I never created an ETH wallet on blockchain.info. Yet, after logging in to blockchain.info, I found an ETH wallet there with some cash in it (with which I have had nothing to do!), and a long list of ETH transactions listed there (lots of money, long history, also from long before the addition of ETH).
Can anyone explain this? It looks like a very unsafe situation...
Thanks!

Well, I also think that blockchain started receiving them because of platforms in the ethereum has an idea that will be a heavy contender ethereum bitcoin which also has the possibility that a replacement would be the ethereum bitcoin. It's just that this is still some mystery news must continue supervised and followed, the main thing now is the most important for us is that in order to get a profit then it should definitely work hard and smart. So it would be much better to think of how to get a lot of advantages in the ethereum, bitcoin or for future savings.