Desktop Wallet for Apple M1 Silicon

[D2Hammer]

Hi,

is there any wallet out there, which supports the Apple M1 CPU natively?
Exodus and Ledger Live claims on their website, that they don't support ARM based CPUs at the moment.

Thx!

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[Rath_]

is there any wallet out there, which supports the Apple M1 CPU natively?

I don't think so. It is not going to be a priority for most wallet developers, either. It looks like Ledger is working on the native support, but they did not specify ETA. The built-in translation should work fine for most of wallets, but as you can see in that reddit post, there is contradicting feedback about how well it works.

[mk4]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but iOS wallets pretty much technically run natively(by default without iOS devs updating their apps) on the Apple M1 MacBooks, right? So you can use apps like BlueWallet on M1?

[Rath_]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but iOS wallets pretty much technically run natively(by default without iOS devs updating their apps) on the Apple M1 MacBooks, right?

Oh, you’re right. Any iOS wallet should work perfectly fine. One is not able to resize the application window, but that’s a minor inconvenience. It would be interesting to see Electrum on iOS which could behave like a full-fledged client once it is launched on any M series CPU. Still, there are plenty of other wallets to choose from. I would choose BlueWallet since Samourai is not available on iOS yet.

It looks like some apps might not be available for download from the store on the M1 powered devices if developers decide so.

[ABCbits]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but iOS wallets pretty much technically run natively(by default without iOS devs updating their apps) on the Apple M1 MacBooks, right?

Oh, you’re right. Any iOS wallet should work perfectly fine. One is not able to resize the application window, but that’s a minor inconvenience. It would be interesting to see Electrum on iOS which could behave like a full-fledged client once it is launched on any M series CPU. Still, there are plenty of other wallets to choose from. I would choose BlueWallet since Samourai is not available on iOS yet.

It looks like some apps might not be available for download from the store on the M1 powered devices if developers decide so.

Python 3.9.1 can run on M1, even though it's on experimental stage. So it's possible Electrum already can run on M1, even though i have doubt about PyQt since it's binding to low-level library.

[NotATether]

It would be interesting to see Electrum on iOS which could behave like a full-fledged client once it is launched on any M series CPU.

Whether Electrum will support M1 processors depends on whether upstream Python developers make a newer Python release for it, which they probably will considering it's cross-platform nature.

The above just takes care of the Python module. To get precompiled Electrum binaries that work on M1 I think the osx contrib/ scripts have to be adjusted as well.