Lightweight clients

[hjordan]

I'm not very familiar with the different clients. I use QT and am trying to advise a friend who is new to Bitcoin, but QT is going to take forever to synch. What do people make of the lightweight ones? Which is the best and why?

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[nicopo]

Hey, you could use MultiBit as recommended in this reference post here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=252937.0

[DannyHamilton]

I'm not very familiar with the different clients. I use QT and am trying to advise a friend who is new to Bitcoin, but QT is going to take forever to synch. What do people make of the lightweight ones? Which is the best and why?

MultiBit and Electrum are both pretty good.

Some people are uncomfortable with web hosted wallets, but they can be quite convenient for small amounts.  The only web wallet that I trust at all is blockchain.info/wallet

[almostmike]

I like Multibit, but I've also heard good things about Electrum and blockchain.info (if you're open to Web wallets).

[painmaker]

i've so far had good experiences with electrum (which is a lightweight wallet but not a web wallet) and liked it for its simplicity and low resources.
with multibit the handling of multiple (independent) wallet seems to be easier but i haven't tried it yet as i was happy with electrum.

[coinbitty]

Thumbs up for Electrum, super fast, don't need to download the whole blockchain