A Bitcoin desktop wallet without downloading the entire blockchain?

[larocfra]

Question for you guy's, do Electrum support generation transactions, I stop mining at solo.ckpool for now because I did not receive a answer for Coinbase.com yet and I don't want to lose 25BTC if I get a block

[delliaerd]

Personally I prefer MultiBit although Electrum is very good too (matter of taste).

If you don't have a good Internet connection (like me) or don't have much patience you can use them.

Right Multibit have many good feature, but blockchain wallet desktop (or i can called spv wallet)  also good too and can use easily.

[4by2]

Personally I prefer MultiBit although Electrum is very good too (matter of taste).

If you don't have a good Internet connection (like me) or don't have much patience you can use them.

Right Multibit have many good feature, but blockchain wallet desktop (or i can called spv wallet)  also good too and can use easily.

I personally prefer multibit because of it's ease of use and the ability to send transactions without having to download anything, but I wish it did have some more security behind it.

[pooya87]

are people living under a rock, you can run core with prune mode, problem solved, no more nearly 70gb of data to download, no need to run an spv client

hello from underneath a rock.
you are comparing 70 GB with 40 MB of data (in Electrum). besides there is no need for a strong pc (cpu, ssd,..) you can run it on crappy one too. and the sync each time is less than 1 MB even if you don't run it for a while.

[ivanst776]

yes. this is possible. but if your hard disk is have low space and you can't download a good bitcoin desktop wallet, then I think you should better to go with online wallets. like coinbase and xapot. they are secure enough and you don't loose your hardesk space. I think using a online wallet is better then downloading a low quality and low size wallet.

[H.W.Z]

are people living under a rock, you can run core with prune mode, problem solved, no more nearly 70gb of data to download, no need to run an spv client

Pruned mode you still need to wait more than 2 days to fully synchronize the blockchain. It still requires downloading the some part of blockchain, consuming time and pace as well.

[Duomo]

I recommend either Multibit-HD or either Electrum. My personal preference is Electrum. I had no problems with either and it seems to be the best way to go if you want a light-weight blockchain wallet. Even though Bitcoin Core is the original satoshi wallet, the amount of data it contains is generally way too much for an individual to dedicate on their hard drive. Allocating anywhere from 60+ GB and growing everyday is a pretty big deal. The best part is you can easily recover your wallet with "seed words". These seed words allow you to recover your bitcoins on any machine with either Multibit-HD or Electrum once you enter them. It is vital to keep these seed words safe. The smaller amount of data that needs to be downloaded and seed words make Electrum my preferred wallet than Bitcoin Core QT 0.12 (the current version).

[John Perdyu]

I made a lot of wallets, online purses for me are reliable, among a lot of wallets I chose https://apibtc.com/. He has no equal among analogues. Very easy to use, anonymous and secure. The support service is open 24/7

[faceoff2000]

hello ...can i use my bitcoin address to receive bitcore coins? thank you.

[Jepli]

Yes, It is possible...I like Electrum because it allows you to recover your wallet from its secret phrase.  It is a well known wallet that focus speed and simplicity. A worry free wallet for me.

[Stedsm]

I made a lot of wallets, online purses for me are reliable, among a lot of wallets I chose https://apibtc.com/. He has no equal among analogues. Very easy to use, anonymous and secure. The support service is open 24/7

Are you sure that leaving your coins in an online wallet without holding your private key a better idea?
I don't even use Blockchain's online wallet nowadays as they don't allow multiple addresses to be sent at once (when you send to more than one recipient), as well, for privacy reasons, they change the address with new and the "change" remains in the old one (which can be used again in future but you don't hold your private key). I think Electrum needs to be used with care (if anyone's suggesting OP with electrum, please ask them to download the upgraded version 3.0.5 to forgo the bugs).