Wallets with text message verification are necessarily online wallets and if you want to store a nice amount of coins, you definitely don't want those kinds of wallets... You want an offline one and a computer for cold storage.

Check paper wallets, Electrum and Armory, their respective limitations and capabilities and choose the one you like the most.

What a good laugh! This article is hilarious... Legal what?!? Seriously...


Why? Is Bitcoin registered on FinCEN? Seriously...


MSB's are exchanges. Bitcoin is a currency... It has no laws beyond the laws defined on the code that runs the system.


Once again, if this has to be enforced in case of a Bitcoin fork, why wasn't this enforced straght away by authorities since the genesis block?

I could go on... This is seriously one of the wierdest articles I've ever seen. Legal problems are what exchanges face when they "lose track" of customers funds. People show know better about these things already. Attemps to control or regulate Bitcoin at the core level will fail.

Why no hints on the last one?

I selected 7,5$. That's more or less what I paid in the last few hosts I've used in the last year. No host went beyond 8/9$, I think... Had specs ranging from 2 Cores/2GB/60GB HDD/1TB to 8 Cores/4GB/100GB HDD/10TB

Yes, if you memorize the seed it becomes a brainwallet, as per its definition on the Bitcoin Wiki

A password can be used to attack a wallet seed when you have that seed on an online computer, protected by that same password...

Meanwhile users having issues need to install/reinstall/update Armory and the website is unavailable... I still think there should be a temporary thread with the links combined and easily accessible without searching threads

I think there should be a sticky thread on this sub-forum redirecting new (and old) users correctly regarding Armory downloads. Can goatpig's GitHub be considered the place to go if one wants to compile Armory and the Releases page the official place to get compiled binaries from?

The sticky thread could later be updated when we find a new definitive home for Armory. The thread could also link to here and the last thread etotheipi made.

Armory's website is and will be offline. It has nothing to do with your install not running. More info on that:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1351792.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1351924.0

Have you tried running Armory as admin? Or reinstalling the software?

You're probably using an old version if the transaction wasn't accepted. goatpig's GitHub has the most recent versions for all platforms already compiled and ready to download here.

I will remain a full node until the bandwidth and space requirements to run one start being too much demanding, which I don't see happening in near future, if ever.

Also, if pruned nodes weren't as safe, they wouldn't be deployed on the latest releases of Core...

1 - Your seed can be attacked if it is created on a compromised computer, stolen or not really randomly created. Public addresses cannot be used in any attack vector (unless we're talking about deanonymisation).

2 - What example?

I'd be more interested in seeing the actual mine...

A how to can be found on Armory's support page. You can also click on the address you want to see the private key for and take it from there.

Ransomware has been an ongoing discussion, especially since they started requesting Bitcoins for unencryption...

OP, do you suggest anything specific that should be done in order to avoid this problem?

Making threads saying "don't click in suspicious links, don't download suspicious files" isn't enough for those who do these things and isn't suited for a forum where most people have Bitcoins and search for ways to store them safely...

Theft is an ongoing problem and we don't even need ransonware to get people started on reading up about security around here... One just has to look to the Electrum subforum, as an example, to see people not checking if the website they're downloading .exe from is the official one...

I voted do nothing because I seriously have no clue and cannot see so far in the future... One thing cannot happen for sure: the second option. If we change the cap it won't be Bitcoin anymore, it will become another coin, because the basis of Bitcoin was broken (not saying it is an impossible option in the future, but it seem highly unlikely and not suitable).

Switch to PoS might happen, but I don't see how bitcoin can incorporate PoS safely in the future...

Two threads on the issue already

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1358623.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1357962.0


I don't think this gives us good proof... They could have already implement it ages ago. Anyways, they're still on time

breadwallet foi daily spending, Armory(+Bitcoin Core) on desktop and Armory for Cold Storage.

They do? Don't remember that payment option last time I ordered with them... Can't see it on their accepted payment methods either.

Doesn't seem like it to me. They never showed much interest in having Bitcoin, and they could have already implemented it long time ago. Where's the screenshot on reddit from?

Now that I think about it, maybe better to display RBF in any mode, and allow creating RBF transactions in Expert only.

I think Armory should be able to display and create RBF transactions. I've always seen Armory as an advanced, swiss army knife-like client, so Armory should always be a tool that allows and helps in doing pretty much anything allowed by the Bitcoin protocol...


I agree with this approach.

I also agree with RBF appearing only in Expert mode: