i am using blockchain wallet right now,
so far everything is good, it has a pin code feature, feels a lot safe.
Topic: About smart phone wallets.. (Read 3982 times)
Which android/ios btc wallet application are you using?
are they trustworthy? User friendly?
I am looking forward an application , which is safe and user friendly for storing,receiving, sending my btc..
blockchain , the best
Personally making use of MyCelium on Android (No iOS app yet). The new HD version was released this past week.
Tried many others but settled on MyCelium as I like what it offers.
In regards to safety..... They all say their wallets are safe and maybe they are. I would however have sleepless nights with all my coins lying in a phone wallet. I never keep more than around 0.5 in my phone wallet. Rest is kept offline and moved to the phone as required.
I agree with you. Mycelium is a good application. Tried many others but settled on MyCelium as I like what it offers.
In regards to safety..... They all say their wallets are safe and maybe they are. I would however have sleepless nights with all my coins lying in a phone wallet. I never keep more than around 0.5 in my phone wallet. Rest is kept offline and moved to the phone as required.
Just started using green address, great wallet and very easy to use. Good security with 2fa.
Personally, I don't trust cell phone wallets. Better keep it in a proper wallet with backup or paper wallet if you are too paranoid or if you have large amounts of BTC. I would keep smallish amounts on cell phone wallets like less than 0.5 btc.
We've been working on a user-friendly Bitcoin wallet for Android called Bitdash, and we just published it to the Play Store a couple of days ago.
It supports sending to multiple addresses at once and you can setup a PIN code to protect spending. There's no upper limit to the number of digits a PIN can have, but it has to be at least 4 digits.
You can check it out at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.bitdash.wallet.
It supports sending to multiple addresses at once and you can setup a PIN code to protect spending. There's no upper limit to the number of digits a PIN can have, but it has to be at least 4 digits.
You can check it out at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.bitdash.wallet.
I have never try install a wallet on my smart phone.
The safety of phone always bothers me.
By "safety" do you mean the possibility of the phone being lost or stolen? If that's the concern, make sure you lock the wallet with a PIN. When you discover the phone missing, restore your wallet from the paper backup and transfer the bitcoin to a new wallet, with a new private key. The safety of phone always bothers me.
Or are you concerned about the possibility of the phone being hacked?
Wrong, you can have 10 possible integers for each space. 10x10x10x10 is 10,000 combinations!
I'm using mycelium which is the best wallet to me after trying a number of products.
I do not have a smartphone right now. 
Impossible? Believe it?
Impossible? Believe it? I have never try install a wallet on my smart phone.
The safety of phone always bothers me.
By "safety" do you mean the possibility of the phone being lost or stolen? If that's the concern, make sure you lock the wallet with a PIN. When you discover the phone missing, restore your wallet from the paper backup and transfer the bitcoin to a new wallet, with a new private key. The safety of phone always bothers me.
Or are you concerned about the possibility of the phone being hacked?
Wrong, you can have 10 possible integers for each space. 10x10x10x10 is 10,000 combinations!
You are of course right
Mycelium / Hibe / Blockchain is good wallet app
But, personally i think Blockchain is the best among them
But, you need add second password to your blockchain wallet, because PIN is too easy to hack
But, personally i think Blockchain is the best among them
But, you need add second password to your blockchain wallet, because PIN is too easy to hack
I have never try install a wallet on my smart phone.
The safety of phone always bothers me.
By "safety" do you mean the possibility of the phone being lost or stolen? If that's the concern, make sure you lock the wallet with a PIN. When you discover the phone missing, restore your wallet from the paper backup and transfer the bitcoin to a new wallet, with a new private key. The safety of phone always bothers me.
Or are you concerned about the possibility of the phone being hacked?
Wrong, you can have 10 possible integers for each space. 10x10x10x10 is 10,000 combinations!
I have never try install a wallet on my smart phone.
The safety of phone always bothers me.
By "safety" do you mean the possibility of the phone being lost or stolen? If that's the concern, make sure you lock the wallet with a PIN. When you discover the phone missing, restore your wallet from the paper backup and transfer the bitcoin to a new wallet, with a new private key. The safety of phone always bothers me.
Or are you concerned about the possibility of the phone being hacked?
Just started using android wallets tried Hive & Mycelium, mycelium is the fast and convenient over all.
But whichever wallet you use on android do not store all your coins in it i just installed it for testing purposes.
But whichever wallet you use on android do not store all your coins in it i just installed it for testing purposes.
I have never try install a wallet on my smart phone.
The safety of phone always bothers me.
By "safety" do you mean the possibility of the phone being lost or stolen? If that's the concern, make sure you lock the wallet with a PIN. When you discover the phone missing, restore your wallet from the paper backup and transfer the bitcoin to a new wallet, with a new private key. The safety of phone always bothers me.
Or are you concerned about the possibility of the phone being hacked?
I have never try install a wallet on my smart phone.
The safety of phone always bothers me.
By "safety" do you mean the possibility of the phone being lost or stolen? If that's the concern, make sure you lock the wallet with a PIN. When you discover the phone missing, restore your wallet from the paper backup and transfer the bitcoin to a new wallet, with a new private key. The safety of phone always bothers me.
Or are you concerned about the possibility of the phone being hacked?
Anyone think using a blackberry offeres me more security?
Wouldn't trust them on Android (not because of the app specifically).
Wouldn't trust them on a Jailbroken iPhone
Would trust on a non-jailbroken iPhone if it was secured with a code + remote wipe functionality via iCloud (not backed up via iCloud though)
You are very correct on the first two. If you are using an app for an android phone or a jailbroken iPhone then the app will likely have not been vetted from anyone (and is difficult to know for sure that you are downloading from who you think you are downloading from, AFAIK you cannot verify a GPG signature from a smartphone. Wouldn't trust them on a Jailbroken iPhone
Would trust on a non-jailbroken iPhone if it was secured with a code + remote wipe functionality via iCloud (not backed up via iCloud though)
There have been instances in the past when an android wallet would generate new private keys with a faulty RNG, making it possible for the creators of the wallet to have a much smaller set of private keys that the phones could have generated, making it easy for them to steal from the wallet owners
blockchain wallet seems to be more secured.
but i still feel unsafe, I don't think blockchain is perfect, at least not now.
I have never try install a wallet on my smart phone.
The safety of phone always bothers me.
The safety of phone always bothers me.
Hum... github bitcoin wallet.. .? lol.
It's on a bberry for extra saftey!!!! (not really it's on a bberry because that's all I have.. go go z10.. kind of... )
It's on a bberry for extra saftey!!!! (not really it's on a bberry because that's all I have.. go go z10.. kind of... )
I don't use smart phone wallet but I know that Mycelium is nice
I think mycelium is the way to go. 
I think most payment systems will revolve around smartphones in the future, but this is going to mean they have to be very secure. I'm not sure I trust smartphones at the minute with stuff like the NSA syping and data collecting etc.
What do you think about Gliph ?
It has a secure messenger and Bitcoin payments
anyone using this?
it like, whatapp + wallet in one app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ph.gli.android
It has a secure messenger and Bitcoin payments
anyone using this?
it like, whatapp + wallet in one app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ph.gli.android
smart phone wallets will be popular in future,Please select a wallet that simple good used
Which android/ios btc wallet application are you using?
are they trustworthy? User friendly?
I am looking forward an application , which is safe and user friendly for storing,receiving, sending my btc..
Now， i can't using it because , the government don't let us use it
Wouldn't trust them on Android (not because of the app specifically).
Wouldn't trust them on a Jailbroken iPhone
Would trust on a non-jailbroken iPhone if it was secured with a code + remote wipe functionality via iCloud (not backed up via iCloud though)
Wouldn't trust them on a Jailbroken iPhone
Would trust on a non-jailbroken iPhone if it was secured with a code + remote wipe functionality via iCloud (not backed up via iCloud though)
I have the blockchain.info-wallet on my smartphone, but I never really used it, since you can't spend BTC in Vienna(besides on the WWW, but I don't need a smartphone-wallet for that).
My problem with the other wallets, I played around with, was, that they need some time to sync with the network, since my smartphone isn't permanently connected to the internet.
The blockchain.info-wallet is pretty fast and simple(connect WiFI-->press wallet-icon-->enter pin) to get ready.
My problem with the other wallets, I played around with, was, that they need some time to sync with the network, since my smartphone isn't permanently connected to the internet.
The blockchain.info-wallet is pretty fast and simple(connect WiFI-->press wallet-icon-->enter pin) to get ready.
I only keep small amount of btc in mycelium. Most of the stash is in an offline storage. Cause i don't have confidence in android os security. Everytime when i reach website, there's bound to be pop ups that says 'phone got virus,' kind of stuff that is enough to freak me out.
i have used many till now. Hive, Pheeva, coinbase, bither & mycelium.
But so far mycelium is the best and fastest among all those and i'm still using it.
But so far mycelium is the best and fastest among all those and i'm still using it.
Im using mycelium for android and bitwallet for iOS
I would also recommend Mycelium on Android phones or blockchain but only keep small amounts.
Any wallet with great security features for smarthphones is still not available.
Any wallet with great security features for smarthphones is still not available.
Anyone here uses breadwallet? Any problem about using it?
I didn't like breadwallet because it doesn't use BTC denomination, it uses "bits". Many bitcoin decades ago (a few months in real life) I once thought that the term bits was a great idea. Then I thought it was a stupid idea. Either way, to make it the only option in a wallet is a deal breaker for me.
Bither is a bitcoin wallet on both iOS and Android, and it is also open source.
Bither have two mode
Bither Hot Wallet: running on your daily phone, can easily monitor your bitcoin assets, and you can also save small amout of bitcoins in it to pay bitcoins anytime, anywhere.
Bither Cold Wallet: running on your backup phone (old or cheap one), keep the phone offline and save large amount of bitcoins in it, then you can keep your bitcoins as safe as possible.
Communicating between Bither Hot and Bither Cold is simple, the only thing you need to do is scanning the QR-Code.
You can have a try.
Bither have two mode
Bither Hot Wallet: running on your daily phone, can easily monitor your bitcoin assets, and you can also save small amout of bitcoins in it to pay bitcoins anytime, anywhere.
Bither Cold Wallet: running on your backup phone (old or cheap one), keep the phone offline and save large amount of bitcoins in it, then you can keep your bitcoins as safe as possible.
Communicating between Bither Hot and Bither Cold is simple, the only thing you need to do is scanning the QR-Code.
You can have a try.
The more intelligent wallet, the more I do not trust. (Someday robots will replace humans 
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Anyone here uses breadwallet? Any problem about using it?
how about blockchain wallet ?
it has a feature of, 4 digit pin code , and 2fa which is sms code verification.
Don't use the Blockchain wallet.it has a feature of, 4 digit pin code , and 2fa which is sms code verification.
It reuses addresses by default, which means you have no privacy.
Many people do not care if others see/know they re use addresses, as long as the wallet is secure its fine, unless you have something to hide.
It's a form of pollution that negatively affects other people who interact with them, like second-hand smoke. how about blockchain wallet ?
it has a feature of, 4 digit pin code , and 2fa which is sms code verification.
Don't use the Blockchain wallet.it has a feature of, 4 digit pin code , and 2fa which is sms code verification.
It reuses addresses by default, which means you have no privacy.
Many people do not care if others see/know they re use addresses, as long as the wallet is secure its fine, unless you have something to hide.
+1 for blockchain
Currently I do not see any safe telephone wallet - that is the main problem.
May be in the future
May be in the future
in this digital world,
never trust anything, unless you write the code..
never trust anything, unless you write the code..
I used Blockchain. It also has more basic and very useful features like displaying a list of your transactions, and a PIN lock to make sure nobody accesses your wallet. You can also pick a fiat currency to display on the main screen of the app to show what your bitcoin balance is worth.
Don't use the Blockchain wallet.
It reuses addresses by default, which means you have no privacy.
Must admit, I didn't care about new addresses per transaction, but in Mycelium, at least, it's all handled seamlessly. I already take it for granted - in the space of a week! - and now I think, why not have that added level of privacy?It reuses addresses by default, which means you have no privacy.
A few general points about Mycelium:
- great back-up feature
- option of PIN protection, so losing the phone should not be an issue
- apps generally are sandboxed, so arguably safer than the wallet on your PC (we're still talking about hot wallets, of course, not your life savings)
- the trading app within Mycelium is a nice bonus
I use the blockchain wallet, however I'm still looking for one that seems the LEAST like a real wallet.
I mean the way things could go south would be if a thief knew what to do with the app when he found it. I imagine some thieves might not know about bitcoin but if they saw an app that said "blah blah WALLET" then they're going to think money, something worth cracking, etc.
Someone should make an obscurely named wallet.
I mean the way things could go south would be if a thief knew what to do with the app when he found it. I imagine some thieves might not know about bitcoin but if they saw an app that said "blah blah WALLET" then they're going to think money, something worth cracking, etc.
Someone should make an obscurely named wallet.
how about blockchain wallet ?
it has a feature of, 4 digit pin code , and 2fa which is sms code verification.
Don't use the Blockchain wallet.it has a feature of, 4 digit pin code , and 2fa which is sms code verification.
It reuses addresses by default, which means you have no privacy.
Mycelium - it works well even on my really dated Android 2.3 phone and is being improved continually.
But even though this wallet has superb backup features, I would not keep much more BTC on a smartphone than I would carry equivalent EUR in my physical wallet.
Onkel Paul
But even though this wallet has superb backup features, I would not keep much more BTC on a smartphone than I would carry equivalent EUR in my physical wallet.
Onkel Paul
blockchain wallet seems to be more secured.
how about blockchain wallet ?
it has a feature of, 4 digit pin code , and 2fa which is sms code verification.
it has a feature of, 4 digit pin code , and 2fa which is sms code verification.
Yeah regardless of what security an app promises, they should be treated like 'hot' wallets and not long term storage.
I've used Hive before, been meaning to check out Mycelium as they've had pretty good reviews.
I've used Hive before, been meaning to check out Mycelium as they've had pretty good reviews.
In regards to safety..... They all say their wallets are safe and maybe they are. I would however have sleepless nights with all my coins lying in a phone wallet. I never keep more than around 0.5 in my phone wallet. Rest is kept offline and moved to the phone as required.
Yes, don't keep more on your phone wallet than you expect to need. Use it the same way like you would use an ordinary wallet.
Even if the wallet implementation might be safe, your phone may still be unsafe because of the platform itself. Also it might be stolen. Offline storage is the only resonably safe way to store larger amounts of Bitcoin.
Apart from that, mycelium is a good choice.
Personally making use of MyCelium on Android (No iOS app yet). The new HD version was released this past week.
Tried many others but settled on MyCelium as I like what it offers.
In regards to safety..... They all say their wallets are safe and maybe they are. I would however have sleepless nights with all my coins lying in a phone wallet. I never keep more than around 0.5 in my phone wallet. Rest is kept offline and moved to the phone as required.
Tried many others but settled on MyCelium as I like what it offers.
In regards to safety..... They all say their wallets are safe and maybe they are. I would however have sleepless nights with all my coins lying in a phone wallet. I never keep more than around 0.5 in my phone wallet. Rest is kept offline and moved to the phone as required.
Which android/ios btc wallet application are you using?
are they trustworthy? User friendly?
I am looking forward an application , which is safe and user friendly for storing,receiving, sending my btc..
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