Still use blockchain?

[FruitsBasket]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

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[EternalWingsofGod]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

It depends on your preference, if you have your wallet.dat file which is sent to you from blockchain when you make your account you can still manually send, assuming you don't want to install Core then having two wallets in case one is down splits the risk of failure from any one service in half and ensures that you will be able to use one if the other fails.

I guess you should just make a spare wallet and keep blockchains as well.

[OmegaStarScream]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

Both of them are open source so I don't think there is something to worry about , you can restore your wallet for sure even if blockchain goes down by setting up the source code on a Web server or your local PC or whatever and then use the seed they gave you or something like that . However it's always nice to have a backup , you could speed things up just in case .

[7788bitcoin]

If you just want to check address balance/transaction history, there are quite a number of site other than blockchain. Blocktrail is one of them. Other such as blockexplorer.com, biteasy, etc are also useful...

[jacee]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

For me it's best to just use another service but then as they said it will depend on your preference. The problems of blockchain will eventually be fixed I guess, if not then maybe it is time to leave them.

[FruitsBasket]

If you use still use their wallet, you better make a backup now.
So, you can access your bitcoin using other wallet if blockchain.info is down or you decided to use other wallet.

Personally, i recommend you to stop use blockchain.info wallet & use other wallet such as Electrum for Windows or Mycelium for Android, both of them are good wallets.
For block explorer function, you can use blocktrail as alternative

Thank you for your recommondations! I will download an wallet for android, but is that less secure than a windows wallet?

[ranochigo]

If you use still use their wallet, you better make a backup now.
So, you can access your bitcoin using other wallet if blockchain.info is down or you decided to use other wallet.

Personally, i recommend you to stop use blockchain.info wallet & use other wallet such as Electrum for Windows or Mycelium for Android, both of them are good wallets.
For block explorer function, you can use blocktrail as alternative

Thank you for your recommondations! I will download an wallet for android, but is that less secure than a windows wallet?

Technically no. Both are open sourced and has no vulnerability as of now. The worst case was probably the 2013 RNG incident that affected almost all of the android wallets. It allowed for the creation of transactions with repeated 'R' values, allowing the private key to be less secure. There is no indications that it would happen again. I would recommend you to go with Electrum as your primary wallet and Mycelium as your secondary daily wallet.

[FruitsBasket]

If you use still use their wallet, you better make a backup now.
So, you can access your bitcoin using other wallet if blockchain.info is down or you decided to use other wallet.

Personally, i recommend you to stop use blockchain.info wallet & use other wallet such as Electrum for Windows or Mycelium for Android, both of them are good wallets.
For block explorer function, you can use blocktrail as alternative

Thank you for your recommondations! I will download an wallet for android, but is that less secure than a windows wallet?

Technically no. Both are open sourced and has no vulnerability as of now. The worst case was probably the 2013 RNG incident that affected almost all of the wallets. It allowed for the creation of transactions with repeated 'R' values, allowing the private key to be less secure. There is no indications that it would happen again. I would recommend you to go with Electrum as your primary wallet and Mycelium as your secondary daily wallet.

I thought if blockchain would go offline and i have no backup right now. So then I lose all my btc right?
Anyways, I have downloaded blocktrail and will use it in the future, also I have send a backup to my email.

Thanks for your help!

[medUSA]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

I can't see why you cannot continue to use blockchain.info wallet and another one in parallel. Backup your private keys on blockchain.info wallet and import them into another client or another web wallet. You then have control of the same addresses from two different clients. You continue to use blockchain.info wallet when it's up and use the alternate when it's down.

What you should do now is to backup your keys. Once you have the keys and do not create new addresses, you are safe.

[examplens]

on time blockhain is down, and Imediatelly be talking about changing wallet prov. i agree that i need to make a wallet backup, but what if blocktrail one time will have problem. what then?

[FruitsBasket]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

I can't see why you cannot continue to use blockchain.info wallet and another one in parallel. Backup your private keys on blockchain.info wallet and import them into another client or another web wallet. You then have control of the same addresses from two different clients. You continue to use blockchain.info wallet when it's up and use the alternate when it's down.

What you should do now is to backup your keys. Once you have the keys and do not create new addresses, you are save.

Wow that is an awesome idea! I disn't know that this was possible. Thank you very much!

Regard,
FruitsBasket

[cellard]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

I can't see why you cannot continue to use blockchain.info wallet and another one in parallel. Backup your private keys on blockchain.info wallet and import them into another client or another web wallet. You then have control of the same addresses from two different clients. You continue to use blockchain.info wallet when it's up and use the alternate when it's down.

What you should do now is to backup your keys. Once you have the keys and do not create new addresses, you are save.

I remember sometime asking a similar question about importing private keys for other wallets. I got told that this is not a really good idea.. and that to move fund from wallet A to wallet B I should simply send myself the money (from A to B wallet), instead of importing and exporting private keys. If you can this practice should be avoided... just create a new wallet and send your funds there.

I wouldn't use blockchain.info service for anything that isn't spare change. I still prefer Core for your main amount of Bitcoins or a paper wallet with encryption, and then if you want to have some "cigarette and coffee" type of spare change money you can put it on the Mycellium wallet in your Android or whatever.

[teddy5145]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

Well it depends on yourself
do you still like using blockchain ?
If you do then continue using it
If you don't want to use them
Don't worry,there are many alternatives than Blockchain like xapo,coinbase,hive
But i wouldn't recommend to keep using blockchain

Make a new wallet account somewhere and move your funds from blockchain to that new wallet

[foxkyu]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

Blocktrail is a good wallet too. But for your safety, do not store more than 0.1 btc if you don't own private keys.

Since blocktrail don't give you permission and no features to export private keys.

You still have choice to use multibit or electrum wallet.

[FruitsBasket]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

Blocktrail is a good wallet too. But for your safety, do not store more than 0.1 btc if you don't own private keys.

Since blocktrail don't give you permission and no features to export private keys.

You still have choice to use multibit or electrum wallet.

Wow, so if they want they can steal everyone´s bitcoin who uses their wallet?

Regards,
FruitsBasket

[mexxer-2]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

Blocktrail is a good wallet too. But for your safety, do not store more than 0.1 btc if you don't own private keys.

Since blocktrail don't give you permission and no features to export private keys.

You still have choice to use multibit or electrum wallet.

Wow, so if they want they can steal everyone´s bitcoin who uses their wallet?

Regards,
FruitsBasket

Not a surprise considering many other web wallets do the same, people are using Coinbase even when they know that Coinbase can take all their coins at any time. If I had to choose for a online wallet I'd choose greenaddress, multi-sig address and many other security features, best web wallet I've seen. But still do not use any web wallet for amounts over 0.1, use either electrum or Multibit.

[medUSA]

I remember sometime asking a similar question about importing private keys for other wallets. I got told that this is not a really good idea.. and that to move fund from wallet A to wallet B I should simply send myself the money (from A to B wallet), instead of importing and exporting private keys. If you can this practice should be avoided... just create a new wallet and send your funds there.

I believe that has to do with HD wallets. When people create a new HD wallet from seed, and then import private keys from other wallets, they forget that which addresses are not natively derived from seed. When they restore the whole wallet from seed later on, they loose the keys of those imported addresses, potentially loosing coins. By sending the whole balance to the new HD wallet (abandoning the old addresses), a restore from seed all always retrieve all your coins.

My suggested solution does not forfeit the use of old wallet and addresses, it provides a secondary access to your existing addresses.

[foxkyu]

Wow, so if they want they can steal everyone´s bitcoin who uses their wallet?

Regards,
FruitsBasket

That's not what i mean. The key for your safety is private key. If you don't own it you can't control your wallet.

It's like you store your btc in exchange. Which is you don't own your private keys. Only can send and receive bitcoin.

[Robben]

I just use blockchain to watch wallets...

even for a hot wallet, I use other providers...

[ranochigo]

I hear some people to reccommend others to stop using blockchain and use blocktrail. I also know that blockchain is down or attacked often. What should i do?

Blocktrail is a good wallet too. But for your safety, do not store more than 0.1 btc if you don't own private keys.

Since blocktrail don't give you permission and no features to export private keys.

You still have choice to use multibit or electrum wallet.

Wow, so if they want they can steal everyone´s bitcoin who uses their wallet?

Regards,
FruitsBasket

They could possibly do that. I believe they do not allow control over any of the keys used to sign the multisig address. The only thing they give is the seed which can be used to recover the wallet.

I do not consider any online wallet as secure if they:
1. Can potentially capture the private key or do not allow users to know their private key,
2. Are able to push updates without permission from the user.

Even though most online wallets create the wallet in the browser and do not send the unencrypted version to the server, they can potentially push an update such that the informations are captured. This is the main difference between desktop wallets. Desktop wallets require your permission to update.