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1  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [General] Bitcoin Wallets - Which, what, why? on: June 28, 2022, 07:53:19 PM
Another HW checked by one collegue, it's BitBox 2.0, seems like very good alternative to Trezor and Ledger! Open source and nicely made.
Bitbox wallet is based on modified Trezor code with added secure element, and it is open source, that makes it good hardware wallet buying option.
However, there are some issues with their controversial swiss AOPP rule that is violating privacy, and they are now only wallet that is still supporting that.
Trzor, Bluewallet and few other wallets removed their AOPP rule support after negative feedback from community.

Thanks for this information, really useful, I didn't know about that till your appointment! thanks  Wink Grin Cool Cool Cool
2  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [General] Bitcoin Wallets - Which, what, why? on: June 26, 2022, 11:19:46 AM
Trying to share more usefull information to all;

After try on my mobile phone;

           - Samourai Wallet

           - Sentinel (Watch Only) -> Runs with out private keys, check balance and receive deposits on new addresses.  Tongue

Both apps works properly, very user friendly, but you need to know about how Bitcoin works to take really profit to these apps.

Points of interest;

           - Samourai Wallet -> Privacy connecting Tor Network, possibility of connect to own DoJo FullNode  Cool

           - Sentinel -> Track any Bitcoin address having single address, XPUB, YPUB or ZPUB. With it, can generate new addreses to receive payments.

Both apps are protected by PIN and I recommed watch the options available to configure the app, very yummy apps.  Grin

PD; Another HW checked by one collegue, it's BitBox 2.0, seems like very good alternative to Trezor and Ledger! Open source and nicely made.
3  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [General] Bitcoin Wallets - Which, what, why? on: June 26, 2022, 11:04:09 AM
About HardwareWallet like Trezor, Ledger or SafePal. Anyone knows about "ColdCard Mk4"  Roll Eyes
Trezor is a open source hardware wallet, it is completely open source. It software, the Trezor Suite is also open source. For bitcoin, you can also use it with Electrum wallet.

For Ledger Nano, it has a secure element which is used for seed phrase generation and storage. The secure element makes it hard for a physical attack that can reveal the seed phrase to anyone that steal the wallet to be impossible (or let me use almost impossible).

Trezor is completely open source but adding passphrase while generating wallet with it can be necessary in order to generate different keys and addresses in a way any attacker that steal the wallet will only know the seed phrase with the physical attack that can reveal the seed phrase but can not know the keys and addresses and will not be able to steal your coins if strong passphrase is used.

I will recommend Trezor if you can use passphrase along with seedphrase to generate the wallet. If you lose your seed phrase, you lose your coin, also if you lose passphrase, you lose your coin.

About Coldcard, you can read this:
https://bitcoin.org/en/wallets/hardware/coldcard/#:~:text=Coldcard%20is%20an%20easy%20to,in%20a%20dedicated%20security%20chip.

About Safepal
The wallet itself is close source
The wallet software is also close source
It only has a mobile software, no desktop software
You can not connect it with wallets like Electrum
No means of generating multisig wallet
No coin control or address freeze
Safepal is not recommendable.


Sincerely, very usefull! i'm so gratefull for this feedback about HW, Have a nice day, thanks!  Grin Grin Grin Grin
4  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [General] Bitcoin Wallets - Which, what, why? on: June 24, 2022, 06:33:16 PM
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Anyone expert, Could say main wallets to use for example;

- Computer/PC

- MobilePhone (Android & IOS)

About HardwareWallet like Trezor, Ledger or SafePal. Anyone knows about "ColdCard Mk4"  Roll Eyes
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I wouldn't label myself as an expert but, here's what I'd personally go with (for bitcoin):

Desktop: Electrum
Mobile: Blockstream or Samurai wallet (the latter is privacy-focused).

As for the HWs, then since I'm not that familiar with the MK4 model, I would go with either Trezor or Ledger. SafePal might be cheap but it's definitely not something you should be using for your life savings (closed source, backed by Binance, bad UX, etc.)

Thanks for reply! @OmegaStarScream   Grin Grin

I'll try both Electrum and Samurai!  Cool  Shocked

Thanks for your time,  Roll Eyes
5  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: [General] Bitcoin Wallets - Which, what, why? on: June 24, 2022, 05:35:57 PM
I think that this post needs an update...  Huh

Anyone expert, Could say main wallets to use for example;

- Computer/PC

- MobilePhone (Android & IOS)

About HardwareWallet like Trezor, Ledger or SafePal. Anyone knows about "ColdCard Mk4"  Roll Eyes

Thanks, regards  Grin
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