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Which android/ios btc wallet application are you using?

are they trustworthy? User friendly?


I am looking forward an application , which is safe and user friendly for storing,receiving, sending my btc..

Personally making use of MyCelium on Android (No iOS app yet). The new HD version was released this past week.

Tried many others but settled on MyCelium as I like what it offers.

In regards to safety..... They all say their wallets are safe and maybe they are. I would however have sleepless nights with all my coins lying in a phone wallet. I never keep more than around 0.5 in my phone wallet. Rest is kept offline and moved to the phone as required.

Yes, don't keep more on your phone wallet than you expect to need. Use it the same way like you would use an ordinary wallet.

Even if the wallet implementation might be safe, your phone may still be unsafe because of the platform itself. Also it might be stolen. Offline storage is the only resonably safe way to store larger amounts of Bitcoin.

Apart from that, mycelium is a good choice.

Yeah regardless of what security an app promises, they should be treated like 'hot' wallets and not long term storage.

I've used Hive before, been meaning to check out Mycelium as they've had pretty good reviews.

how about blockchain wallet ?

it has a feature of, 4 digit pin code , and 2fa which is sms code verification.

blockchain wallet seems to be more secured.

Mycelium - it works well even on my really dated Android 2.3 phone and is being improved continually.

But even though this wallet has superb backup features, I would not keep much more BTC on a smartphone than I would carry equivalent EUR in my physical wallet.

Onkel Paul

Don't use the Blockchain wallet.

It reuses addresses by default, which means you have no privacy.

I use the blockchain wallet, however I'm still looking for one that seems the LEAST like a real wallet.

I mean the way things could go south would be if a thief knew what to do with the app when he found it. I imagine some thieves might not know about bitcoin but if they saw an app that said "blah blah WALLET" then they're going to think money, something worth cracking, etc.

Someone should make an obscurely named wallet.

Must admit, I didn't care about new addresses per transaction, but in Mycelium, at least, it's all handled seamlessly.  I already take it for granted - in the space of a week! - and now I think, why not have that added level of privacy?

A few general points about Mycelium:

- great back-up feature
- option of PIN protection, so losing the phone should not be an issue
- apps generally are sandboxed, so arguably safer than the wallet on your PC (we're still talking about hot wallets, of course, not your life savings)
- the trading app within Mycelium is a nice bonus

I used Blockchain.  It also has more basic and very useful features like displaying a list of your transactions, and a PIN lock to make sure nobody accesses your wallet. You can also pick a fiat currency to display on the main screen of the app to show what your bitcoin balance is worth.

in this digital world,

never trust anything, unless you write the code..

Currently I do not see any safe telephone wallet - that is the main problem.
May be in the future  ;)

+1 for blockchain

Many people do not care if others see/know they re use addresses, as long as the wallet is secure its fine, unless you have something to hide.

It's a form of pollution that negatively affects other people who interact with them, like second-hand smoke.

It will only reuse addresses if you use a custom send TX, if you use the "send" feature then it should create a new address for your change address.

Anyone here uses breadwallet? Any problem about using it?

The more intelligent wallet, the more I do not trust. (Someday robots will replace humans  :()

Bither is a bitcoin wallet on both iOS and Android, and it is also open source.

Bither have two mode

Bither Hot Wallet: running on your daily phone, can easily monitor your bitcoin assets, and you can also save small amout of bitcoins in it to pay bitcoins anytime, anywhere.

Bither Cold Wallet: running on your backup phone (old or cheap one), keep the phone offline and save large amount of bitcoins in it, then you can keep your bitcoins as safe as possible.

Communicating between Bither Hot and Bither Cold is simple, the only thing you need to do is scanning the QR-Code.

You can have a try.

I didn't like breadwallet because it doesn't use BTC denomination, it uses "bits". Many bitcoin decades ago (a few months in real life) I once thought that the term bits was a great idea. Then I thought it was a stupid idea. Either way, to make it the only option in a wallet is a deal breaker for me.

I would also recommend Mycelium on Android phones or blockchain but only keep small amounts.

Any wallet with great security features for smarthphones is still not available.

Im using mycelium for android and bitwallet for iOS

i have used many till now. Hive, Pheeva, coinbase, bither & mycelium.
But so far mycelium is the best and fastest among all those and i'm still using it.

I only keep small amount of btc in mycelium. Most of the stash is in an offline storage. Cause i don't have confidence in android os security. Everytime when i reach website, there's bound to be pop ups that says 'phone got virus,' kind of stuff that is enough to freak me out.

I have the blockchain.info-wallet on my smartphone, but I never really used it, since you can't spend BTC in Vienna(besides on the WWW, but I don't need a smartphone-wallet for that).
My problem with the other wallets, I played around with, was, that they need some time to sync with the network, since my smartphone isn't permanently connected to the internet.
The blockchain.info-wallet is pretty fast and simple(connect WiFI-->press wallet-icon-->enter pin) to get ready.

Wouldn't trust them on Android (not because of the app specifically).

Wouldn't trust them on a Jailbroken iPhone

Would trust on a non-jailbroken iPhone if it was secured with a code + remote wipe functionality via iCloud (not backed up via iCloud though)

Now， i can't using it because , the government don't let us use it

smart phone wallets  will be popular in future,Please select a wallet that simple good used

What do you think about Gliph ?

It has a secure messenger and Bitcoin payments

anyone using this?

it like, whatapp + wallet in one app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ph.gli.android

I think most payment systems will revolve around smartphones in the future, but this is going to mean they have to be very secure. I'm not sure I trust smartphones at the minute with stuff like the NSA syping and data collecting etc.

I think mycelium is the way to go. 8)

I don't use smart phone wallet but I know that Mycelium is nice

Hum... github bitcoin wallet.. .? lol. 

It's on a bberry for extra saftey!!!! (not really it's on a bberry because that's all I have.. go go z10.. kind of... )

I have never try install a wallet on my smart phone.
The safety of phone always bothers me.

but i still feel unsafe, I don't think blockchain is perfect, at least not now.

You are very correct on the first two. If you are using an app for an android phone or a jailbroken iPhone then the app will likely have not been vetted from anyone (and is difficult to know for sure that you are downloading from who you think you are downloading from, AFAIK you cannot verify a GPG signature from a smartphone.

There have been instances in the past when an android wallet would generate new private keys with a faulty RNG, making it possible for the creators of the wallet to have a much smaller set of private keys that the phones could have generated, making it easy for them to steal from the wallet owners

Anyone think using a blackberry offeres me more security?

By "safety" do you mean the possibility of the phone being lost or stolen? If that's the concern, make sure you lock the wallet with a PIN. When you discover the phone missing, restore your wallet from the paper backup and transfer the bitcoin to a new wallet, with a new private key.

Or are you concerned about the possibility of the phone being hacked?

If you have a 4-digit PIN to "protect" your wallet then there are only 10,000 possible combinations that an attacker would need to try (at most) before finding your PIN. All an attacker would need to do is make a clone of your phone in airplane mode and try all combinations until they figure out which one is correct. This would logically not take very long considering how fast even CPU mining is. This would not give you very much time to secure your funds in the manor you describe

Just started using android wallets tried Hive & Mycelium, mycelium is the fast and convenient over all.
But whichever wallet you use on android do not store all your coins in it i just installed it for testing purposes.

A four digit pin is just 1,000 combinations 0000 to 9999 ;)

Wrong, you can have 10 possible integers for each space. 10x10x10x10 is 10,000 combinations!

Mycelium / Hibe / Blockchain is good wallet app
But, personally i think Blockchain is the best among them

But, you need add second password to your blockchain wallet, because PIN is too easy to hack

Oh, I just got up, when I wrote this.
You are of course right

I do not have a smartphone right now.  ;D Impossible? Believe it?

I'm using mycelium which is the best wallet to me after trying a number of products.  ;)

I vote for blockchain too ;D

I think the point remains that a smartphone wallet is not going to be very well protected with only a 4 digit PIN. I believe that blockchain.info will make you enter your second password when spending funds via your smartphone app, if you have it enabled, however they do not make you (nor do they push you to) have this enabled.

We've been working on a user-friendly Bitcoin wallet for Android called Bitdash, and we just published it to the Play Store a couple of days ago.

It supports sending to multiple addresses at once and you can setup a PIN code to protect spending. There's no upper limit to the number of digits a PIN can have, but it has to be at least 4 digits.

You can check it out at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.bitdash.wallet.

Personally,  I don't trust cell phone wallets. Better keep it in a proper wallet with backup or paper wallet if you are too paranoid or if you have large amounts of BTC. I would keep smallish amounts on cell phone wallets like less than 0.5 btc.

Just started using green address, great wallet and very easy to use. Good security with 2fa.

I agree with you. Mycelium is a good application.

blockchain , the best

i am using blockchain wallet right now,

so far everything is good, it has a pin code feature, feels a lot safe.