Recommended wallet

[BCTBF]

Hello everyone..

I want to know what wallet is widely used by everyone in this forum or this community.

Please vote the wallet that you use and according to you the wallet is indeed worth to be recommended and give the reason, why do you guys recommend the wallet, whether the wallet is safe or have a low fees of withdrawal etc.

I will add a poll if you ask to be added.

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[TryNinja]

I honestly don't know why create another topic on this subject. There are already tons of topics where people talk about the wallets available on the market and which ones are better. Just google "bitcointalk best/desktop/top wallet" or something like that and you will see.

The best "full wallet": Bitcoin Core
The best light wallet: Electrum

A lot of those wallets on your poll are web wallets, so... just don't use them.

[gentlem3n]

I don't know if it's intentional or not, but the most popular online wallet as far as I know is blockchain.info and I don't see it in the options (I'm not wearing glasses now, so it might be there but it's at least not among the first).
I use a combination of bockchain.info and Electrum, I tried Multibit HD but it has proven to be too difficult compared to the classic edition, even the GUI is too different for my taste.

[Danslip]

I mainly use electrum but there is always possibility to get hacked on desktop wallets. Best way to secure your coins is paper wallet

[BCTBF]

I mainly use electrum but there is always possibility to get hacked on desktop wallets. Best way to secure your coins is paper wallet

I personally do not yet known about paper wallet and where I can use the paper wallet it?

[NY-city]

I mainly use electrum but there is always possibility to get hacked on desktop wallets. Best way to secure your coins is paper wallet

I personally do not yet known about paper wallet and where I can use the paper wallet it?

It's not the first time I've met the advice on the Bitcoin coinomi purse. Its advantage in the multicolored content is crypto currency.

[maokoto]

The only one I have really tested is Multibit HD, but it is fast, easy to use, and it does not take a lot of space.

I like the feature of it being safeguarded by the pastphrase too. Recommended.

[stevegee58]

I mainly use electrum but there is always possibility to get hacked on desktop wallets. Best way to secure your coins is switching to Linux

FTFY

[Reid]

I got the prediction that electrum will get a lot of votes here.
It have been all over the forum and is being widely use here.
I dont why it is really popular or how it gained fame.
It is really just because of it being lighter or something is behind it?
But i really like the way they work and they are flexible with any devices, including android now.
That is somehow new specially for a wallet which most dont have one.

[Slark]

I mainly use electrum but there is always possibility to get hacked on desktop wallets. Best way to secure your coins is paper wallet

I personally do not yet known about paper wallet and where I can use the paper wallet it?

Paper wallet is not a type of software is simply the way for you to store your private and public key pair.
When instead of keeping it online or as file on your hard  disk you will write it down on piece of paper - that is a paper wallet.

This is bitcoin's private key: L5gUKfaVKBUgTmy8mS9k4gjrbiicQniTkCo5ogEVbAwMfD4nrZcD

and this is public key, called address: 1JZLWTXaAwtmjxVZpnbX4QLPEYAC5gKXnv

These 2 keys are everything you need to create paper bitcoin wallet.

[stevegee58]

I got the prediction that electrum will get a lot of votes here.
It have been all over the forum and is being widely use here.
I dont why it is really popular or how it gained fame.
It is really just because of it being lighter or something is behind it?
But i really like the way they work and they are flexible with any devices, including android now.
That is somehow new specially for a wallet which most dont have one.

I used to run a full node but the hassle of upgrading the HDD to keep up with blockchain size was ridiculous.  I adopted Electrum early on because it's the best of both worlds: no huge blockchain download, but I still have full control of my private keys.  In addition it's open source Python and I can run the client on any device I want.

[Roger Burton]

The only two from the list I use are Xapo and Blockchain.info.
Both of them provide 2FA verification without the need of an app increasing somehow the security provided by those wallets.

[stevegee58]

The only two from the list I use are Xapo and Blockchain.info.
Both of them provide 2FA verification without the need of an app increasing somehow the security provided by those wallets.

The app increases security because you hold the private keys, not some web site.  A web site can use 2FA which is great but you still have to trust them to not lose/steal your private keys.

Yes, it does happen.  Bitcointalk is full of threads from people singing the blues about getting ripped off by online wallets.

[pearlmen]

The only two from the list I use are Xapo and Blockchain.info.
Both of them provide 2FA verification without the need of an app increasing somehow the security provided by those wallets.

This particular 2FA is why I am reconsidering using blockchian.info in if it were to be last week I would say there is not need for offline wallet because web wallets provides the flexibility among other adbavtages but what I experienced last week due to what is not a fault of mine, I concluded that the best is just the desktop wallet as others have rightly said and I am moving towards that immediately.

[BCTBF]

The only two from the list I use are Xapo and Blockchain.info.
Both of them provide 2FA verification without the need of an app increasing somehow the security provided by those wallets.

This particular 2FA is why I am reconsidering using blockchian.info in if it were to be last week I would say there is not need for offline wallet because web wallets provides the flexibility among other adbavtages but what I experienced last week due to what is not a fault of mine, I concluded that the best is just the desktop wallet as others have rightly said and I am moving towards that immediately.

Well, what desktop wallet are you using, can you recommend it for me?
Thank you.

[OROBTC]

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blockchain.info's online wallet seems to be working better than before (say, two years ago), so I am OK with that one.

The only other wallet I checked off (voting on the poll) was Copay.

I would like to see a similar poll of hardware wallets like the various versions of the Ledger as well as Trezor and DigitalBitBox (the last one is now my favorite).  I see other hardware wallets mentioned here & there as well.

[HabBear]

Why did you keep this specific to desktop and web wallets? You're leaving out the offline/cold wallets that so many people use. This may force people to vote for a wallet on your list that they wouldn't actually use or endorse if they had the option of wallets available.

Since the poll shows which wallets people think are the best, it would also be good to know what challenges come with some of these different wallets - from the user experience, not just differences/challenges due to the type of wallet.

[Bounty Hunter]

I use coinbase and i'm satisfied 

[zend7]

My recommendations are as follow:

Free choices:

1. If you have a big HDD or SSD preferrably 1TB or up definitely download bitcoin core, sync it with the network add a strong passphrase and this should be the most secure desktop wallet because of it downloading all the blockchain in your PC. You need to be safe to not get any virus or keylogger otherwise you are in risk of losing everything you have.
2. If yo don't have a big HDD or SSD download Electrum wallet, it is an SPV wallet and is also one of the most secure desktop wallets out there.
3. Any other wallet but download at your own risk, I only recommend the 2 above. This is just to add the third option.

Paying money choices:

Any hardware wallet like Trezor, Ledger, Keepkey etc.

[Ethan_Locke]

I would recommend that you do not keep your funds in a exchange especially over the next couple of months. My main advice would be to either get a hardware wallet such as trezor or alternatively a mobile wallet such as mycelium.