Thank you for the very good explanation above and indeed. Not your keys, not your Bitcoin. Repeat this mantra often enough and everything about Bitcoin makes sense:)

With Bitamp wallet, from a single private key, we believe also that no other wallet gives you the ability to use ALL three supported Bitcoin address formats!

That is not a security function. The whole idea of asking you, and only you, to have access to your own Bitcoin is the highest possible security feature of Bitcoin.

If there is a way to send you your email or notification, then that means we have to store this information somewhere on our server, which means someone could possibly hack it (or we could use it).

We don't keep any information of yours.

That's the double-edged sword of being 100% responsible for your own Bitcoin:)

Paper wallets aren't really a favorite, and their major disadvantage is that they cannot survive the environment if not stored properly. Even if locked securely within a safe, you could still get water damage, heat damage. Paper simply isn't something that survives very well without good storage conditions.

We totally get you, and as we said above, if you've got a fortune, you shouldn't need to keep accessing it all the time. But if you have a "hot wallet" of maybe $50 or $100 that you'll often use, you really don't want to keep jacking in to your hardware wallet all the time. Especially not in public! A mobile phone app or browser like ours should be all you ever need.

Being objective, we'd have to agree. Our wallet was designed for newcomers, so it's easy, quick, and accessible, without compromising the need to ensure only users have their private keys. Typically, when you need a wallet that's convenient to access, it's so you can send and receive payments all the time. So perfect for smaller balances that you need to access all the time, on the go.

Anyone with significant wealth should really invest in ultra secure storage, and shouldn't need to access it all of the time!

We are an open source project, with out source code fully available on Github. You are welcome at any time to examine this and find out for yourself about the technical issues you wish to confirm for yourself.

If there is a specific technical question, feel free to ask it yourself and we will forward it to our dev.


We appreciate constructive comments, but not less than that, please try to be more specific or helpful with your comment, thank you!

Interesting idea, we are looking at other developments first, targeted at user-friendliness (Lightning being one) but for sure, more features to enhance or add layers of privacy are always in consideration, though with a small team, could be really difficult to do everything! I would say also that looking at Samourai and similar, there doesn't seem to be much demand anyway?


As many as you wish. We provide a way for you to create wallets, not accounts. So in that sense, you can create as many as you're able to manage.

Security is always the main concern, but unfortunately, your bitcoin is never as secure as you think it is when you're trusting a closed source online wallet that does not let you control your bitcoin. Exchanges and websites have been known to get hacked and people have lost everything when that happens. Worse still, an exit scam could take your funds in the blink of an eye.

Well, to be perfectly fair, our wallet simply means all that sensitive data stays on the client side, so you never send US anything. But any kind of web-based service is at risk IF the client's own device or browser is compromised -- but that said, we're all about convenience and ease of use for the newbie Bitcoin user, and using a browser means sacrificing that bit of security.

That really is and should be the whole point of any kind of Bitcoin wallet. Of course, some people would still prefer to have their accounts recoverable by email or some other way, but then you miss out on the whole beauty of Bitcoin otherwise (which is to retain sole control of your own money!).

Focus on which point exactly? You're going to have to be more specific if you want a response. Have you actually tried our wallet yet? We appreciate feedback but it has to be constructive and specific for us to be able to respond well:) Thank you for your interest!

We don't charge any fees, no regular Bitcoin wallet ever should. Any fee you pay is part of the protocol itself and goes to the miners securing the network, not us. We have three settings in the wallet: priority, regular, slow.

The honest answer here is: you don't!

But the beauty of open-source projects like ours is, you don't have to take our word for anything. Our source code is fully verifiable by you or anyone (it's on Github) to see for yourself that it works the way we say it does. If you discover a bug, or vulnerability, you can submit it and we plug it! That's really how any open source project works:)

Hello guys! Sorry for the delay in responses. We are a really small team at Bitamp and the development, as I'm sure you understand, will take the majority of their attentions!

So here I am to hopefully provide some very basic attention to the community here at Bitcointalk. I'll do my best to answer queries and gather responses from the devs on technical questions.


We agree that we could put up more information and this will certainly come in future. Which information do you feel is critically urgent?


Thank you for your suggestions -- very useful to chew on. We started out with a web wallet because that is easiest for newcomers, and accessible easily without needing to install any app from any device, simply from a browser. It's certainly not the most secure form of access, but it is a step up from logging into an exchange account from your browser!

We'll look into adding those offline options, once we're a bit more confident about the actual application itself!


What we're really trying to do is to change the mindset of newcomers, encouraging them to take control of Bitcoin, using wallets where they actually have access over -- Coinbase is one example of a popular platform (which also many use as a wallet) but they have control over your private keys, not you.


Correct. The only way to recover your wallet is to import your private keys or in our case the seed. If you could recover a wallet with a pin or password sent somewhere, then that pin or password has to be stored somewhere, leaving it vulnerable to theft or hacks.


Bitcoin technology is enough to ensure that it doesn't get hacked, don't you worry;) And for us, since we never keep your keys or even see it, even if we get hacked, your keys are still yours and are always only on your side (client side). Which is the whole point we're trying to get people to have their own wallet with their own keys!


It works from a web browser, so if you have that on your device, you can use Bitamp.