[Tutorial] BlueWallet - Bitcoin Wallet Discussion

[so98nn]

Thanks for sharing the detailed review about this wallet. I was looking for iOS based wallet and wanted to have handy wallet which will be able to sign and verify the messages. This is really helpful when I’m selling my artwork across borders and the payment is in bitcoins. I’m not fan of Electrum and Mycelium does not have easy option to do so. Plus it’s way buggy than any other wallet (still I am using it, that’s funny).

Anyway, I think I will make review about this wallet with updated version, and from the perspective of new user of the same. I am not sure is it just me or everyone but OP images are not visible at all??
 

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[hosseinimr93]

I am not sure is it just me or everyone but OP images are not visible at all??

It's not just you. The same thing has happened to any other image uploaded to imgur. Visit the topic created by acroman08 for more information about the issue.
Imgur images suddenly became invalid?

[aylabadia05]

Thanks for sharing the detailed review about this wallet. I was looking for iOS based wallet and wanted to have handy wallet which will be able to sign and verify the messages. This is really helpful when I’m selling my artwork across borders and the payment is in bitcoins. I’m not fan of Electrum and Mycelium does not have easy option to do so. Plus it’s way buggy than any other wallet (still I am using it, that’s funny).

Anyway, I think I will make review about this wallet with updated version, and from the perspective of new user of the same. I am not sure is it just me or everyone but OP images are not visible at all??

When a topic is still actively providing information and discussing, why give birth to the same topic. If you want to discuss and share information that benefits many people regarding this wallet, including the iOS version, we invite you to share it in this thread.
Except this topic has been inactive for a long time.
I think this you can understand.

I plan to go back to fixing all the images I uploaded on this topic considering the images I uploaded using imgur.
The plan today I will fix using TalkImg with the help of [Script] Imgur to TalkImg - automatically fix your broken images created by @TryNinja. Suddenly @joker_josue as the initiator of TalkImg gave a message that there was a reconfiguration on the server,

Folks, I appreciate your interest in the project, but this has escalated a little more than expected.  

I inform you that during the next few hours, there may be some disturbance in the upload of new images. Because I'm doing reconfiguration on the servers and sometimes it can take a few hours.

Thank you for your understanding and patience! As soon as the situation is more normalized, I will let you know.


EDIT: I recommend that you take a break from updating your topics, using this script, until I finish this maintenance that I'm doing, to avoid losing work.
Once again, thank you for your understanding.

[BVeyron]

I like this wallet too. I installed the last release recently, and discovered this: previously there were bookmarks of different accounts, each one in a different color, and they could be replaced easily just by swiping them, but now it doesn't work, and every account bookmark becomes the first in a row when you just tap it. IMHO it's quite irritating, I suppose it's better to remove this feature. I don't know what was the reason for devs to do this. I have Android 10, however, maybe it's due to this. And in general, the wallet is great! Thanks, devs!!!

[aylabadia05]

UPDATE: Releases Blue Wallet Version 6.4.5
Blue Wallet official download link: App Store | Google Play

7 May 2023, Blue Wallet released version 6.4.4 and on 12 June or two days ago, Blue Wallet again released the latest version from version 6.4.4 to version 6.4.5 which was announced by @marcosrdz on github.com.

On version 6.4.5. Blue Wallet added support multiple accounts from Keystone hw wallet and fixed about 5 items as I quote below.

- ADD: support multiple accounts from Keystone hw wallet (closes #5281)
- FIX: un-cache refill onchain addresses on cold start.
- FIX: sync ar-SA, it, sv, ar, fa, he, id, jp, sv_se and ua languages
- FIX: fix errors in RU language
- FIX: wallet->receive->qr share as an image
- FIX: Watch complication name was "BlueWallet"
- DEL: rectangular accessory from iOS widgets
- REF: electrum (more public servers; better batching support)

[Kryptowerk]

UPDATE: Releases Blue Wallet Version 6.4.5
Blue Wallet official download link: App Store | Google Play

7 May 2023, Blue Wallet released version 6.4.4 and on 12 June or two days ago, Blue Wallet again released the latest version from version 6.4.4 to version 6.4.5 which was announced by @marcosrdz on github.com.

On version 6.4.5. Blue Wallet added support multiple accounts from Keystone hw wallet and fixed about 5 items as I quote below.

- ADD: support multiple accounts from Keystone hw wallet (closes #5281)
- FIX: un-cache refill onchain addresses on cold start.
- FIX: sync ar-SA, it, sv, ar, fa, he, id, jp, sv_se and ua languages
- FIX: fix errors in RU language
- FIX: wallet->receive->qr share as an image
- FIX: Watch complication name was "BlueWallet"
- DEL: rectangular accessory from iOS widgets
- REF: electrum (more public servers; better batching support)

I am slightly confused. Is bluewallet supporting lightning again?
https://bluewallet.io/sunsetting-lndhub/ <- I thought they shut down their service. However their website still advertises as a "Lightning Wallet with zero configuration". See: https://bluewallet.io/lightning/

[Husna QA]

I am slightly confused. Is bluewallet supporting lightning again?
https://bluewallet.io/sunsetting-lndhub/ <- I thought they shut down their service. However their website still advertises as a "Lightning Wallet with zero configuration". See: https://bluewallet.io/lightning/

What has been closed is the LndHub BlueWallet service. BlueWallet can still be a Lightning wallet; you must use your LND node or something else. Look at Settings-Network-Lightning Settings.



Previously, when the URL column was left blank, by default, it would use BlueWallet's LNDHub:

[aylabadia05]

UPDATE: Releases Blue Wallet Version 6.4.6
Blue Wallet official download link: App Store | Google Play

For BlueWallet users, now the Bitcoin wallet that was worked on in 2017 has released a new version update.
The previous version v6.4.5 was released last month, about four days ago, verai v6.4.6 was released again which focused on several added points such as adding SeedQR backup scanning support as seen in the quote below.

• ADD: add new languages
• ADD: support scanning SeedQR backup (closes #4959)
• FIX: incorrect error handling when scanning invalid BC-UR data
• FIX: incorrect data display on multisig wallet details screen
• FIX: Scan of descriptor QR from Sparrow Wallet not working (closes #5539)

[CryptoHFs]

How to sign a message when using vault option? It disappeared in that type.

[DaveF]

How to sign a message when using vault option? It disappeared in that type.

You can't.
If you set it up with a hardware wallet you need to sign it with that.
If you set it up as a multisig there is no standard for signing with multisig as far as I know. Could have changed but last I looked it was not there.

And it's also a security thing. If you have a 2 of 3 multisig any 2 people can sign but you would never know which 2. Since they can spend the BTC it does not matter from that view but you would never be able to prove more then that.

-Dave

[internetional]

My BlueWallet fails to synchronise with the network. It shows me that the Electrum server is connected, but the last transaction it can find was 16 days ago. After that day I had four transactions with the address linked to Bluewallet. I made those transactions via another software. And Bluewallet doesn’t know anything about them. It still consider my TX-output from Aug-27 as unspent. Of course, when I try to spend it from Bluewallet, it says that the coin cannot be used, but it does not renew the balance and the transactions list even after such transaction attempt.

I’ve imported the private key to the Electrum wallet on the same device, and it shows correct amount.

Does anyone have the same issue with BlueWallet?

[apogio]

My BlueWallet fails to synchronise with the network. It shows me that the Electrum server is connected, but the last transaction it can find was 16 days ago. After that day I had four transactions with the address linked to Bluewallet. I made those transactions via another software. And Bluewallet doesn’t know anything about them. It still consider my TX-output from Aug-27 as unspent. Of course, when I try to spend it from Bluewallet, it says that the coin cannot be used, but it does not renew the balance and the transactions list even after such transaction attempt.

I’ve imported the private key to the Electrum wallet on the same device, and it shows correct amount.

Does anyone have the same issue with BlueWallet?

Hi. Are you using your own node? Or someone else's?

[Husna QA]

My BlueWallet fails to synchronise with the network. It shows me that the Electrum server is connected, but the last transaction it can find was 16 days ago. After that day I had four transactions with the address linked to Bluewallet. I made those transactions via another software. And Bluewallet doesn’t know anything about them. It still consider my TX-output from Aug-27 as unspent. Of course, when I try to spend it from Bluewallet, it says that the coin cannot be used, but it does not renew the balance and the transactions list even after such transaction attempt.

I’ve imported the private key to the Electrum wallet on the same device, and it shows correct amount.

Does anyone have the same issue with BlueWallet?

Is the Bitcoin address used for transactions in other software the same as that in BlueWallet?

I assume that the other wallet is a Hierarchical Deterministic wallet so that during transactions, it can use a different address to process the return of unused funds, and it is not connected to the BlueWallet when you import it using the private key instead of using the seed phrase.

[internetional]

Is the Bitcoin address used for transactions in other software the same as that in BlueWallet?

I assume that the other wallet is a Hierarchical Deterministic wallet so that during transactions, it can use a different address to process the return of unused funds, and it is not connected to the BlueWallet when you import it using the private key instead of using the seed phrase.

The address is the same. I see all the transactions of this address on mempool.space, but not in the BlueWallet.

Hi. Are you using your own node? Or someone else's?

No, I don’t have a full Bitcoin node. I check my transactions via a public blockchain explorer. Now I also can check and find all of them via Electrum wallet. It’s weird because both wallets (BlueWallet and Electrum) seem to use the same Electrum server as a source of information about transactions.

[hosseinimr93]

My BlueWallet fails to synchronise with the network.

The problem is probably from the server you have connected to.

Tap on the three dot button at top right corner of the window. Go to "Network" and then "Electrum Server". Enable "offline Mode" and then disable it.
With enabling and disabling "Offline mode", you will connect to a different electrum server and you will probably see your transactions and your correct balance.

[Husna QA]

The address is the same. I see all the transactions of this address on mempool.space, but not in the BlueWallet.

By default, BlueWallet chooses the server automatically. Try manually filling in the Electrum server in BlueWallet's Network settings (you can see the server list in the Electrum Wallet in the Tools-Network-Overview menu), then restart BlueWallet.

In the following example, I manually selected a server in BlueWallet and activated the Use SSL option:



You can see the history of the servers you have selected manually in Server History.

[internetional]

The problem is probably from the server you have connected to.

It seems so. But simple switching on and back off the offline mode didn’t change anything.

By default, BlueWallet chooses the server automatically. Try manually filling in the Electrum server in BlueWallet's Network settings (you can see the server list in the Electrum Wallet in the Tools-Network-Overview menu), then restart BlueWallet.

Thank you, it has helped. I’ve chosen the server from your screenshot (coinucopia), and now BlueWallet can find all my transactions, so the current balance is also calculated correctly.

[_act_]

What I will like Bluewallet developers to improve:

If you copy an address of a receiver, as you open Bluewallet, the wallet will ask you if you want to paste the address so that it can be used for sending bitcoin. Let us say you have more than one wallet on the wallet app and you last opened the second wallet. After you close the wallet, it can be in your mind that you last open the second wallet and if you want to use it to send bitcoin, you will think that you can just copy and paste from clipboard as Bluewallet ask you, if you paste, it will paste the address on the first wallet sending space. I almost wanted to make a mistake with it but my first wallet was not funded, I would have made the mistake by sending from the first wallet instead of the second.

The second thing is that paste what is on clipboard that it is asking by Bluewallet is annoying. You may copy the address for other thing but it will ask you about it. If I want to use Blue wallet to verify a message and I copy the address that I want to verify its message, it will not asked that than to paste the address on the sending space.

Another thing I do not like about Bluewallet is that it will not show the last thing you have done in the wallet. Like if you send bitcoin, it will not show it until you close the app and open it again.

The third thing is that the fee is not accurate, it is 1 sat/vbytes lower than mempool estimation.

It is a good wallet but it would be good if those things are corrected.

[hosseinimr93]

If you copy an address of a receiver, as you open Bluewallet, the wallet will ask you if you want to paste the address so that it can be used for sending bitcoin. ...........

To avoid such mistakes, disable "Read Clipboard". To do so, tap on the 3 dots button at top right corner of the screen and after that go to "General settings" and then "Privacy".

The third thing is that the fee is not accurate, it is 1 sat/vbytes lower than mempool estimation.

Different wallets and tools use different methods for fee estimation and take note that none of them are accurate.

[SFR10]

Another thing I do not like about Bluewallet is that it will not show the last thing you have done in the wallet. Like if you send bitcoin, it will not show it until you close the app and open it again.

As an Android ^[v13] user who did some tests in the past, I never experienced it, so it might have something to do with your device or its operating system ^{[did it happen in iOS?]}.

The third thing is that the fee is not accurate, it is 1 sat/vbytes lower than mempool estimation.

In addition to hosseinimr93's comment, if you tap the green 1 sat/vByte button you'll get a different set of fees that are closer to what's listed on the mempool.space.