Heavy or light desktop wallet?

[haroldtee]

I have been using web wallet for a while (blockchain.info) but I am contemplating recently between heavy or light desktop wallet as I have been told on this forum that desktop wallets are more secured.  My question is, which is more secured between light and desktop? What are the major differences to watch out for? How will one go about installing one? What is the best desktop wallet, be it light or heavy and why?
lastly, apart from desktop wallets, are there any other more secured wallets that are easy to use?

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[harizen]

You can do good readings here about that;

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1528908.0

Best desktops wallet should be based on your own preferences. So yes there is some cases that you need to tried every wallets in order to fit your standards.

[Kprawn]

Did you look at this? ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_bitcoin_wallets - Most of the wallets are being compared with each other,

so this is one of the better resources out there at the moment. Have you considered a hardware wallet? I like to add a hardware wallet into the

mix, to have some more security. 

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

The general consensus is that blockchain.info is a crappy wallet which does not estimate fees well at all. There are more frantic posts about stuck transactions from blockchain.info wallet users than any other. Multibit HD is another one to stay away from, many user complaints and not maintained well.

Search and you will have a hard time finding complaints about Electrum. It estimates fees well and allows you to send transactions replaceable, so if lag occurs you can bump the fee up. Combine Electrum with a Ledger Nano S or Trezor to manage your private keys and you have a great secure wallet. Electrum is also one of the few bitcoin wallets available in a portable version that does not write to /appdata/.

[haroldtee]

Did you look at this? ---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_bitcoin_wallets - Most of the wallets are being compared with each other,

so this is one of the better resources out there at the moment. Have you considered a hardware wallet? I like to add a hardware wallet into the

mix, to have some more security.  

Thanks a lot guys for the quick response and thank you so much Kprawn as this wikipedia link has given me all I have been looking for. i was surprised I didn't come across this initially while searching online, maybe I need to improve my google searching skills
Thanks a bunch.

EDITED - From the look of things, I think mycelium, electrum or Copay should work. Will try to do more research on these three. What are your thoughts on them too? Has anyone ever tried COPAY, it looks like the best from the link above and is it heavy or light?

[crairezx20]

The general consensus is that blockchain.info is a crappy wallet which does not estimate fees well at all. There are more frantic posts about stuck transactions from blockchain.info wallet users than any other. Multibit HD is another one to stay away from, many user complaints and not maintained well.

Search and you will have a hard time finding complaints about Electrum. It estimates fees well and allows you to send transactions replaceable, so if lag occurs you can bump the fee up. Combine Electrum with a Ledger Nano S or Trezor to manage your private keys and you have a great secure wallet. Electrum is also one of the few bitcoin wallets available in a portable version that does not write to /appdata/.

Agree with this since we heard some error issue in multibit hd and blockchain is not giving you a good estimation for the miners fee. go with electrum since never had any problem about this wallet the good thing there you can use the dynamic fees which is you can choose either slow or fast transaction just slide it to the highest fee you are good to transact bitcoin in minutes base on my experience..