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April 27, 2013, 02:51:20 AM
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So which wallet are people using?

I know there's the "official" Bitcoin-Qt, but also Electrum, Armory, MultiBit, etc. So far, I've been using Qt but am getting annoyed at the transaction fees I have been paying to send BTC.

Any suggestions, and please give a reason. Thanks!

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April 27, 2013, 03:05:44 AM
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I was using the Armory but it and the standard bitcoin-qt one were eating up too much of my hard drive space so I had to uninstall.  Right now I just have all my funds in mtgox and bitstamp...not sure how smart that is but at least I can sell my BTC quickly if price starts to plummet. 
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April 27, 2013, 05:16:56 AM
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I use multibit. It allows multiple wallets, syncs with the blockchain really fast, and allows private key exports and password-protected wallets. I have used it for about a month and have no complaints.
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April 27, 2013, 06:15:42 AM
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QT was using up all my disk space and bandwidth. So switched to Electrum. Keeping a small amount in Blockchain.info for its advanced features.
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April 27, 2013, 06:20:44 AM
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What is the best free wallet? Stroncoin charged me 1% and it ended up costing me a coin
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April 27, 2013, 07:03:26 AM
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After a friend of mine had his blockchain.info wallet broken into (we suspect via a javascript exploit or perhaps an android app on his phone - he was not using 2 factor authentication, although that wouldn't matter if they had stolen his private key before he enabled it anyway) as a part of the greater blockchain.info heist that happened on the 25th (which was discussed here), I elected to move all my BTC out of their web wallet service and set up Armory cold storage on a flash drive. Or as one Reddit user put it, "9 easy steps for people with computer knowledge. 9 giant leaps against mass adoption." I already had the Ubuntu .iso and a flash drive. It took about an hour and I feel a lot safer although this method of signing transactions is perhaps slightly tedious. I'm basically using Armory with an offline version of Brainwallet.org instead of having to install bitcoin-qt and download the blockchain. And as for transaction fees, I usually pay .001 because I don't like waiting around for my transactions to verify. I decided to keep the blockchain.info android app, but I only handle small amounts of BTC with it now.

The cold storage method I used (I didn't write this btw, I just followed the instructions): http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1d26gw/
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April 27, 2013, 08:39:54 AM
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I like Electrum and Multibit.

Electrum = can show the ammount (btcs) per address (I like that).
Multibit = fast sync and reset option.

And both lack the ability to create a wallet from imported key only (you get an extra address/key pair that you may not be willing to use). In Electrum it can be done from the command line with gap limit = 0, but you still have the 3 change addresses (that you can choose to not use).

I will like to see that feature on both. (create empty/no-addresses wallet, to then import the desired ones).




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April 27, 2013, 08:49:46 AM
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I'm using Electrum so far and I'm in the process of setting up a Linux bootstick for safe storage right now following the instructions at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=17240.0.
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April 27, 2013, 09:01:23 AM
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Blockchain here, hope no one ganks my yubikey.

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April 27, 2013, 09:05:20 AM
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Im using Bitcoin Qt at the moment, and so far it just does what i want.
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April 27, 2013, 09:10:15 AM
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Bitcoin-Qt, Litecoin-Qt and Feathercoin-Qt

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April 27, 2013, 09:10:23 AM
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I was using bitcoin-qt until recently, when the memory consumption became prohibitive.  I'm now using multibit.

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April 27, 2013, 09:28:52 AM
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What happen when one of these online wallet gets hacked?
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April 27, 2013, 10:31:50 AM
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I'm new here, I've been using blockchain.info with Google authenticator also, would you say this is secure enough? I backup my wallet after every transaction too.
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April 27, 2013, 01:00:40 PM
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I'm new here, I've been using blockchain.info with Google authenticator also, would you say this is secure enough?
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That depends on how secure your password is.

If your password is "abc123", you will almost certainly lose your bitcoins to theft eventually.

If your password is "b678VvQ&*o78bvn2cv67^%@Ip59X#4x35Z", then it is probably secure enough.
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April 27, 2013, 01:08:22 PM
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bitcoin-qt, litecoin-qt, terracoin-qt, PPCoin-qt, plus namecoind.

Wallets encrypted and backed up to a RAID1 system.
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April 27, 2013, 01:09:26 PM
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I was using the Armory but it and the standard bitcoin-qt one were eating up too much of my hard drive space so I had to uninstall.  Right now I just have all my funds in mtgox and bitstamp...not sure how smart that is but at least I can sell my BTC quickly if price starts to plummet. 

why would you sell while the price is plummeting  Huh sell when its high buy when its plummeting.

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April 27, 2013, 01:11:08 PM
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So which wallet are people using?

I know there's the "official" Bitcoin-Qt, but also Electrum, Armory, MultiBit, etc. So far, I've been using Qt but am getting annoyed at the transaction fees I have been paying to send BTC.

Any suggestions, and please give a reason. Thanks!

Bitcoin-Qt and namecoind here.

I don't have a problem with the transaction fees on Bitcoin-Qt.  They're very very low, and as a miner I realise that the future viability of the network may in part depend on transaction fees.  Consider it a very small tip Wink

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April 27, 2013, 01:11:26 PM
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Blockchain
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April 27, 2013, 01:11:37 PM
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I'm using blockchain.  I think the risk of me doing something crappy with my wallet is greater than the risk of it being lost online at the moment.
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