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Any online wallets worth considering for small amount of bitcoin?

It has to be something with a simple signup that doesn't require the user to jump though hoops such as photo ID or a passport just to send and receive bitcoins

I had a look at coinbase but found the site confusing as it seemed more about buying and selling coins.

My reason for a simple online wallet is i wish to try out these PTC sites that give you a small amount of BTC for watching adverts and doing simple tasks.

Thanks

Blockchain.info

Blockchain has a lot of money behind it's development.  They also have some nice features on their mobile app. 

Use cold storage still, and blockchain for daily spend.

I just used trusted gambling sites. They keep all their funds offline anyways, but this doesn't help if it is the site itself that runs off with the coinage.

I used doge-dice.com for all my DOGE (site is now since gone :(.)

Gotta fight the temptation though :P

Blockchain.info and coinbase aren't bad either.

Blockchain.info would be completely fill your requirement. Been using it for 1,5 years and never faced a single problem.

blockchain.info would be the best one also has a mobile app or you could choose coinbase if youre in the USA which is also one of the best online wallets

Did you lose your coins there? At dogedice?

Nah, I invested right from the get go and made like 20 million or so.

I just lost my coins @ prc though :-| *grumbles*
I'm a better investor than gambler....

Lost like 20-25 ish @ JD too.

just use bitcoin core. i've been using it for years, and other than a stolen laptop with approximately 7.43 btc on it, i've never had any bitcoins stolen from me. luckily i had also kept a text file of the private keys on a thumbdrive and i immediately retrieved the coins and sent them out of the wallet to a new address.

I'm not sure if mycelium have online wallet.

mycelium don't have any online wallet yet just for mobile devices but in this case blockchain.info is the best for OP.

Thanks all , Blockchain is the type of thing i was looking for. :)

When i signup will blockchain give me a single wallet address i can give too all the PTC sites i try as the talk of private keys on the blockchain site looks confusing?

Thanks

Agree, but keep as you sayed author small amounts there. Never trust bigger amounts to online wallet.

I like blockchain also

blockchain is onlne for a long time, you could give it a try. be careful with other online wallets, sometimes they are run by scammers

blockchain.info wallet is by far the best online bitcoin wallet, and AFAIK it is the only one that enables its user to have the private keys.
Your bitcoin should be fairly safe if you have enabled 2-factor authentication (2fa).

Thanks all :)

Is there anything i need to do with the private keys or are they just there as a extra precaution?

The private keys are the only things you need to spend your bitcoin. In other words, if I have your private keys, I can spend your bitcoin.

You should make a backup of your wallet (essentially your private keys) so that even when blockchain.info goes belly up, you would still be able to import your private keys to other wallet and spend your bitcoin.
Of course you don't want anyone to get your private keys, so you should encrypt your backup before storing it on your external HDD, USB, dropbox, or email account.

So i can't just click pay from the wallet like Paypal , i have to use keys?

This is like learning a new foreign language. :D

No, it's very easy, just like Paypal.
Using wallet to spend bitcoin is just a click and type activites.

1. Choose/paste the destination address
2. Type the amount of BTC
3. Click send

You better try using blockchain.info wallet, or multibit/electrum client first and feel how easy it is to use Bitcoin! :)
After that you may learn more about private key backup and etc ...

Guess my previous post made you confused lol. My bad.  ;D

To receive a payment, you just need to give your address to the payer.
And to send a payment, you just need to enter the payee's address and the amount of bitcoin you want to send out.

For ordinary users, you don't need to know how the private keys work or how bitcoin works under the hood. At the early stage, just remember that you should save a copy of your wallet file and keep them away from everyone. :)

Kewl , Thanks  both :)

yes bitcoin core is the BEST, (correct me if i am wrong)
you have to download more than 20 gigabytes of data (blockchain) and
every time you want to send or update your wallet to see how much you own (except for checking it online) you need to update bitcoincore and it might take a while

I would say bitcoin core is one of the best, because some people value security the most while some prefer to have a convenient set up.

The current blockchain is over 26 GB already.

We have about 140 new blocks a day, average block size is about 300 KB (https://btc.blockr.io/charts), and so if you open the bitcoin core program once a week, you should prepare to download roughly 294 MB of data every time.

Blockchain.info wallet

Do you have to provide proof of ID as i don't have a passport ?

Thanks

I just jump to blockchain. But if you wanna try, you can try using block.io

Nope, the only info they'll request is an email address (even that's not essential but handy if you forget your password etc)

Awesome , thanks :)

try blockchain, its what i use

The blockchain.info wallet, the most used.

As a wallet, you don't need to do any verification other than your email address to create your account on Coinbase.

Comparing to blockchain.info, you don't have your private key to your address on Coinbase. So the good thing is you don't need to worry about a big transaction fee for receiving lots of dusts, while the bad thing is you will lose your bitcoin if the site no longer work.

The most used online wallet is Blockchain.info: https://blockchain.info/en/wallet (https://blockchain.info/en/wallet)
But IMHO the best and safest one is GreenAddress: https://greenaddress.it/en/ (https://greenaddress.it/en/)

Blockchain.info wallet is recommended many times, I will save my breath. I actually would recommend using electrum offline lightweight wallet instead.

I am using both, but I find myself using electrum more and more from a clean notebook at home, as blockchain.info is frequently down and increasingly less secure with all the malware out there.

Blockchain I think is the most trusted online wallet to date. Every gambling site recommends blockchain.

Why look for anything else? Blockchain is the best to date.

Anyone have any opinions on Trezor as a cold storage unit,thinking of buying while its on offer 

As others have said, electrum is a good alternative to a fully online wallet like blockchain. It's a desktop wallet, but it keeps all the block data online so it doesn't take up a huge amount of space on your computer.

currently i would choose blockchain info, because 2FA and best place in bitcoin community ( a lot of money to operate etc. )

what do you think about multibit?

any inputs on being better then electrum?

Just wait till blockchain mess everything up

Always choose offline wallet. If it has to be online wallet, Blockchain.info is the way to go!

I heard blockchain.info got some problems right now? Any of that true?

Blockchain.info is the most common online wallet to date.

Already been said numerous times but Blockchain.info

I would never recommend online storage but since you mentioned it's only a small amount you should be fine. Cold storage whenever possible.