Worried

[Ading123]

Hello everyone

I'm still looking to settle with a bitcoins client. I downloaded the Bitcoin-QT client and it took forever to load the blocks, whereas Electrum does not need to download the blocks.
Now I'm puzzled what to use. I can understand, that using the bitcoin-qt client to be more reliable and secure because you download the blocks yourself in opposition to Electrum, where you just depend on a global server downloading the blocks for you and providing them on the client.

Is it a bad thing to use Electrum?

Greetings Gonzos

[aleksej996]

It isn't a bad thing to use Electrum, it is fine. It is just that it is better to use Bitcoin Core if you have more then like 150GB of free space on your hard drive. The time it takes to sync up shouldn't bother you, since you can use Electrum in the meantime. So download Electrum if you need a client right now or don't have a lot of space on your device and download Bitcoin Core and let it sync if you have space, that is all.