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I'm looking for the best secure online wallet. Any suggestions?   

There isn't a secure online wallet. It's all about you.

I would use Blockchain.info, activate 2-FA auth by SMS, and restrict IP access.

blockchain.info or inputs.io
You can try them both

https://kipochi.com is by far the best wallet.

Never heard about it. Be careful, inputs.io and blockchain.info's owners are reputable and trusted here.

blockchain.info is really the best one

I am using blockchain.info and I think that it is the easiest one.

Coinbase if your just starting out. Coinbase pays the miners fee for you and also you can buy and sell btc from them.. By far my favorite!

I would use Coinbase but I've heard some horror stories about account approval and they take forever to answer support questions.

A lot of those stories are not true... I have used coinbase. To get an account and just use the btc wallet part of it you dont need to verify anything but your email address. If you want to buy sell btc you MUST verify a phone number (free one at google voice) and a bank account. As far as verification of bank account I used JPMorgan Chase and all I did was enter acc number and routing number. Then I clicked instant verification and put in my chase online user and pass. From there it took a minute. If they dont support instant approval you can select the other function which just takes two small transactions from your account and then refunds it, and you just enter in the 2 amounts it took. Hope this helped!

Educate yourself man!  :D

http://www.coindesk.com/kipochi-launches-m-pesa-integrated-bitcoin-wallet-in-africa/

I believe that its central location is in africa.. People in other coutries might not really know about it until later. I had never heard of it until a few days ago, and I sure as hell dont trust it. The companies I trust are Coinbase and Blockchain, and somewhat inputs.. Coinbase is good cuz they are a official business and they make money so they can pay you back if anything goes wrong with their system, and they also pay the miners fee for you.. Blockchain is good but it costs a lot, and inputs I dont know. Im going to have to ask if Inputs pays for the miners fee...

Well, I guess you must trust Paypal a lot!

It's like this, if you don't have the private keys, the wallet is not yours, it's someone else!

And fees are like 1 cent...

The fees are 6 cents... and yes even tho paypal is hated in the bitcoin community, I do trust it to keep some of my funds and my bank info safe...

OnionBC is a scam. This is the address: http://6fgd4togcynxyclb.onion.

I don't trust Coinbase because they are located in USA.

From their legal section ( https://coinbase.com/legal/privacy  ):

"We may share your personal information with:

- Service providers under contract who help with parts of our business operations such as fraud prevention, bill collection, marketing and technology services. Our contracts dictate that these service providers only use your information in connection with the services they perform for us and not for their own benefit.
- Financial institutions with which we partner.
- Companies that we plan to merge with or be acquired by. (Should such a combination occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information. You will receive prior notice of any change in applicable policy.)
- Law enforcement, government officials, or other third parties when:
We are compelled to do so by a subpoena, court order or similar legal procedure; or
We believe in good faith that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity or to investigate violations of our User Agreement.
- Other third parties with your consent or direction to do so."


They probably give all your data straight to NSA. Highly suspect.

it's not really coinbase's fault

they just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time (the U.S. in the 21st century)

blockchain.info and inputs.io both safe and good to use

blockchain.info is clearly the best.

inputs.io is young and has some unique features.

try both :D

blockchain.info for security

I agree ... the best two  ;)

blockchain is by the far best imho

I think that's a bit of an oxymoron. No online wallet is good in my honest opinion. They have all been hacked and it could happen again. Stay away from them if at all possible. It's just not work the risk involved.

Download a local wallet and be safe dude. You'll be glad you did.

Most hacks are people's faults:
- bad passwords
- unsafe passwords
- phishing
- no double authen ON.

You need to use basics safety measure when deal with money online.

I am using blockchain.info - no problem.

Also, people downloading files from the internet which they are not sure about. That's why, a offline wallet is always best. No online wallets, no other 'owner' of your wallet. You manage your money, the way it should be.

+1

but i would prefer an wallet, thats not online and not in your computer.

But Bitcoin-Qt is online wallet as well because your comp has internet access, thus not extra secure. Learn to use paper wallets generated on allways offline computer for max security

Like others have suggested before, Blockchain.info hosts the most online secure wallet I can think of.

Never trust online wallets, I'm not saying they're bad but almost all of them got hacked at least once before......Note: the above is just my opinion, if you disagree then disagree......

online wallets not secure at all, best place is your pc

Thats true, but for low ammounts for spending purposes is blockchain.info ideal, easy to use and reasonably secure

I hate these wallets in last 2 months lost all my money and no recovery so never trust on any just trust on your self

try multibit

But this is comuter client and not online wallet, right?

Like the others said, inputs.io and blockchain.info are the two best options.

blockchain is the best ;D

yes some time its ok mean better then all ;D

it's not online, it's for running on your computer.

When you use blockchain.info, you can backup everything to multibit...

thanks for good tip and useful hint

inputs.io

cheers

http://kipochi.com

just dont use online wallets.

Noob here:
So, if we don't use an online wallet we download the block chain and use the wallet provided by the Bitcoin system.  Correct?

What are the drawbacks of doing this?

No drawbacks, but ~10 GB blockchain download, you need to keep your system as secure as possible, it may not be so practical, as it is not on the "cloud".

The ideal would be a combination of the two, your "active account" or "pocket cash" online, and your "savings account" on your computer...

Plus, with bitcoin-qt you're supporting the bitcoin network.

"keeping your system as secure as possible"  what might be the first most basic noob steps to do? basic as in easy

Well, not using windows is always a good step. :)

But, you know, firewall and anti-virus up to date, don't download software from unknown sources, always be skeptical, system updated, encrypted wallet, if you suspect your system has been compromised, don't open your wallet, this kind of stuff...

so tails would be in order? or linux?  sorry, huge learning curve

Personally I would recommend using something like blockchain.info sheerly for the number of precautionary steps you can enable on your account to make sure you don't lose your bitcoins. Then again, a cold storage option would also be quite safe (and would be better for large amounts of BTC) if you could manage to keep enough offline encrypted backups.

You should take the same precautions as always, and a bit more not to fall for phishing scams or install malware that steels your coins, and there's a lot of that around here.

Like Light said, if you are going to own a lot of coins the best solution is cold storage, but like you said you're new to this stuff you can read about that later.

Open an account at Blockchain.info, backup your wallet, use 2-factor auth on Blockchain.info and in the email you use there, and you're fine for your first coins.

Is there a tutorial for people that aren't programmers that describes basically how to take an offline wallet and make it work on Multibit?   

What do you mean? You can create a paper wallet and send your coins there.
Then, you could import the private key anytime you want, anywhere.

No offline based wallet is safer either.
Nothing is safe actually.

You can walk in the street and die before tomorrow ::)

I say they aren't safe cause those other sites control the private keys. Anytime someone else controls your private keys that is a huge risk. They can steal your money without you even knowing. Offline wallets are only as safe as the computer they are on. Paper wallets are the safest wallets.

here is the thing... If you use a offline wallet, and your computer gets effected by a Trojan, you could lose your money. I think that coinbase is the best, because they don't can't get affected by a Trojan and they have insurance coverage... If you lose your money they will get it back to you. Also since they make money by buying and selling bitcoins, they can afford to refund you any money that accidentally lost, whereas blockchain.info cannot!

It's all in the signature.  ;)

I like that I can set a 48-hour limit for outgoing transactions. So if I want a 48-hour "cold wallet" I can set the limit to 0. It's nice to have the limit low on the off chance that my wallet gets compromised as well as my PIN.

As poeple have stated-

Blockchain.info and inputs.io for sure!

blockchain.info or coinbase work well

I using blockchain.info and no problems so far. Use online wallet only for small sums you expect to spend soon

Inputs.io has been very nice for me so far.

Security is a big thing, but at the end of the day how secure are you? Blockchain is most likely the most used because it has been around for a long time.

Means it is secure. You can use two factor authentication

I am gonna have to agree with most everyone else, blockchain.info seems to be the best and most user friendly online wallet I have used. Seems pretty secure as well. The two factor authentication is another added layer of protection.

I have been using blockchain for over a year. Keep your computer secure and you should be fine. I wouldnt leave a massive amount of btc on there though.

My favorite is blockchain.info

Obviously you have to factor in whether you trust him and his business. Just like any other business, or bank.

Obviously some newbies just see a lot of people using it and think it is safe. Obviously you don't have to trust it like any other business cause this isn't a business it is a scam and could be a ponzi scheme. Look up pirate, this is exactly how it started. It was all fine and dandy then one day, all hell broke loose. And we had pirate's info but this guy we have no idea. Now I use bitcoins cause most of us don't trust banks so yeah. It is just sad to see people saying this is a "safe wallet" when in theory is anything but a wallet and safe.

In my opinion, blockchain.info is the most secure among all other online wallets. But I like input.io as well, because it's comfortable, easy to use, and especially, offchain  :) (so I don't have to pay a lot of miners fee because I accept many micro payments)

Good: Coinbase
Better: Inputs.io
BEST: Blockchain.info

Dude stop. This ruins ur business, and could get your account banned as well...

Hello, blockchain, inputs.io and coinbase all of them are good for me but the best is blockchain at least for me.

For starter use inputs.io, and if u start getting real BTC ~3-6 use blockchan.info :)

blockchain.info

The armor one, and ..

ALWAY'S have an offline wallet.  Internet cant steal paper from your hands

inputs.io

So do people use the offline wallet to store their coins then use an online wallet for spending cash? Like a savings account and a checking account almost? I am trying to figure out how to setup a wallet and get some coins in it. How do I buy coins to put into my wallet? Where do I get an offline wallet? It is obvious that blockchain.info is the way to go for an online wallet. Sorry for all the questions on this stuff. Has anyone made a good video tutorial explaining the differences in the online/offline wallets and how to setup and configure them? Something like that would be amazingly helpful for me right about now. Thanks for any help you can give!

New easy to use online bitcoin wallet, we even pay interest on deposits!

https://bitcoinera.net/

Looks more like a Ponzi scheme than a wallet. I doubt those interest rates are sustainable.