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I am really tired of Blockchain, it adjust the bad fees and transactions get late. I want to hold more control over my transactions and understand bitcoins.

Can someone please suggest me a new wallet to use on PC ? How's Bitcoin Core , Bitcoin-QT and more ?

Do tell

I don't use any of that two because it takes too much space on laptop. If you are looing for a desktop wallet consider electrum and multibit.  You can know more about them and other wallets here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=37.0

With blockchain.info wallet you have total control over how much fee is included...

Indeed, Use the advanced mode to choose your fee when you want to make a wire.

How about you become smart and switch to Electrum wallet. Enable dynamic fees in the options there and you will have total control on your fees too without using Blockchain.info .

Beside that the private keys will never leave your PC. Yes I know that blockchain.info doesn't store your password and bla bla bla uses json and all is done in the browser but how sure is that ? I would say not much considering that a browser has a lot of flaws.

With electrum if you install it in a clean PC and make sure to save the SEED like it needs to be saved, very carefully everything will be easy.

Actually coinbase is an online wallet that has zero transaction fees unlike blockchain. For PC wallets, the most anonymous of them all is Armory (but it is heavy) then you have multibit and electrum (they have transaction fees).

Zero fee online wallets (Coinbase, Xapo) are a bait for newbies. Don't use them if you really want to have control over your Bitcoin.
Your transactions will be monitored and in case system find out that you used your BTC for gambling, or in some other way against their ToS your account will be blocked.

Op, if you have problem with bitcoin confirmation speed then you might spend more money on a fee, you can do that with blockchain.info wallet.
You need to know that using different wallet won't speed up process of sending/receiving bitcoin at all.

I have my local bank's wallet and that's pretty good and best for me, it's fee is 0.0001 bitcoin on every transactions, for 1 and 10 btc, fee is same and transactions were always fast and I am pleased with them. I think it won't be usable for you but you can try BlockTrail, it's really great, I was using it until that. When I was using BlockTrail, I can't remember when was transaction's time up to 30 minute, it was quickly. Also you can use exchange websites for wallets and etc.

Well i use jaxx.io for wallets on PC (include for altcoins are like ETH,etc, augur, DAO, LTC, DASH, ZCash and new coin rsk) and i use mycelium on my android all of them are has low fees in my opinion, and about bitcoin-qt and more, i don't use it because with jaxx.io and mycelium are enough for me.

Give CoinJar a try.
No fees and not a whole lot of wait time for your transactions to send from what I have heard about blockchain lately.
It looks like what you are looking for in a wallet. ;D

for bitcoin wallet on PC, i use only multibit because the software is fast loading and no need to syncronize to long and its really helpful for me which don't have highspeed internet connection. i have use the bitcoin core and bitcoin-qt already and i am not like it because its need syncronize too long.

I use and recommend desktop wallets like electrum. It automatically adjusts the amount of fees required for the transaction as per the latest fee from the blockchain data thereby ensuring that your transactions don't get delayed.
Even if you want to continue using blockchain.info wallet and want control over the transactions, then there are advanced settings to accomplish it.
Bitcoin core and bitcoin qt are heavy wallets, that is they require gigabytes of data to synchronize with the network thereby interfering in the PC storage and internet bandwidth.
Light wallets like electrum, mycellium download just chunks of data off the blockchain and so are economical to use.

Granted Electrum and Mycelium or other SPV wallets do offer significant advantages to the size of the wallets, they compromise privacy. SPV wallets broadcast the addresses to the peers in order to get the information regarding the address. This would in turn allow the peers to determine which IP the address belongs to, decreasing your privacy.

If you have a decent bandwidth, hardware but you care about your disk space, consider running Bitcoin Core with pruning enabled.

Use electrum. It is safe, it is fast, you can sign messages, it does everything a common core wallet can do and most importantly, it doesn't download hundreds of gigabytes of useless crap like the core wallets.

Alternatively there is an app called "breadwallet" for ios. If you like to check your acc balance every once in a while, it is cool.

after blockchain i will chose electrum , but i don't know why you don't like blockchain, i think as same with other people said , we can adjust fee by ourself in blockchain

Rule # 1 : Never use an Online / Hosted Wallet
Rule # 2 : Never use a non-opensource wallet


You can use Electrum with 2FA, it is light, fast and available on all platforms (I assume you use Windows).
If you can afford a hardware wallet, you can link it to Electrum and all transactions will have to be authorized via the hardwallet.

As the other say, you can use bitcoin core or electrum since you don't want online wallet?

you can try coinbase.com if you don't want to pay fees.

NO - NO - NO

Never, ever use Coinbase as a wallet.

Stop telling people to use it, you have no control over it, no control over your BTCs and no way to recover your coins if Coinbase is offline.

I will suggest you mysselium wallet . In this wallet you can set your transaction charge ( as economic ) as You want .
this will give you better loading fascility also , because it is working upon slow net .

Coinbase isnt a place you should hold your coins at in long term. Possibly good if you wish to buy btc or eth, not good for storing away. Using a desktop wallet like bitcoin-qt, armory, electrum, multibit hd (dont know how reliable), or a hardware wallet is preferred. Also, keep a paper wallet in cold storage in the event you need to recover your coins

Coinbase has never gone offline as far as I know and it is one of the safest online wallets out there.

Electrum and multibit are desktop wallets.

you should know some thing with bitcoin technology if you want to really control your bitcoin before you use wallet

the most important thing is to keep your private-key safe.

bitcoin-core is too large for normal use(120G now) .

you can use some light wallet but do remember secrect one

I suggest http://www.girlbtc.com/coinbin/ you can download it from gethub and use it offline

It use JS to sign and broadcast your trans, and you can control your fees and make you understand bitcoin better.

If you have not yet decide and you want a PC wallet my favorite one, as it was proposed from many others above,  is Electrum. There is portable edition and has support with cold storage and with Trezor HD wallet assuming that the user has Electrum 2.0+. I believe that is more friendly than Multibit especially if you want to import coins from paper wallet.

Was going to use them since they have Ethereum available now.
Maybe I will not now and try another wallet for it instead.

*Achum* Mt. Gox *Achum*

(Same principe at least).


@OP: Either Electrum or Multibit (HD) is best suited for your wishes.

This is what I am trying to explain but some users want to be dumb.

Electrum + KeepKey [Hardwallet storage] = the perfect combination, even if your computer is hacked and remotely controlled, no physical access to your keepkey = no bitcoin transaction.

Electrum is great and you can set your own fee's i have also tried mSigna which allows you to connect to your own node and set up multi sig wallets.  Although for simplicity Electrum is hard to beat.

Beside blockchain I have multibit and its very nice wallet. You can adjust many things, generally I like it more then blockchain. I don`t have some big knowledge about security of wallets, but after reading about it multibit have a lot of good reviews.
I use it for storing some bitcoins, I feel safer when my bitcoins are in that wallet. Blockchain is just for daily using, depositing in casinos, different sites. You can try it, very easy to download and install, good luck with choosing wallet for you.

Is KeepKey worth the $99 these days? And is it kinda user-friendly (I'm pretty technical, but still).

I was a bit skeptical when I wanted to buy it, a trader sent me one so I could test it, I bought it the next day.

Very easy to use
Strong
Minimal and just the features you need.

It is worth it.

Alright, thanks for that. I'll do a bit more research and will probably order it anyways.
It's only $99, so if it sucks, it won't be that big of a problem.

I use jaxx.io on my PC and it can be used on android or other platform, you can take control it because of the seed on your hand. The fees of transaction sending bitcoin was about 20-30k sat, in my opinion it is not too expensive for fast transaction if be compared with Blockchain. For the details you can check on here. https://jaxx.io

Few questions (because I like the design of Jaxx):

1. Has it been audited?
2. Does it rely on other servers?
3. How long has it been on the market for?

Thanks in advance ;).

I just simply use Bitcoin Core... I mean privacy is the whole point of bitcoins and web-interfaces log ip's and doesn't have something like source code so you never exactly now what's going on. But thats just my opinion and when it is more important for you to accept multiple crypto currencies in one wallet then it might be something for you.

Edit: BUT for Beginners it's of curse better to use services like jaxx.io or blockchain.info because it is simple and your wallet file can't be stolen or deleted or something like that...

COINS.PH it really have good reputations and does not requires too much fees. Try if it can access in your country.

The big downside of Bitcoin Core is the huge chuck of files it needs to download and store on your hard/SSD drive.
That's why, for most people, Electrum or Multibit (HD) would be the better option.

Can anyone let me know, is Jaxx a web wallet or a software wallet (that which you install on PC).
I'd also like to know if it has been audited if it's open source.

I highly recommend Electrum for ease-of-use and security, and Armory if you intend on storing your Coins in Safe Storage (Althrough Armory takes quite a lot of space as well).
As far as I am aware, Armory is one of the safer options to store coins in Cold Storage.