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Muhammed Zakir

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Quote from: DrG on July 22, 2014, 01:31:03 AM

Why not use both?

They serve different functions due to different characteristics. Armory has the potential to have the most setup possible with true cold offline storage. Electrum is light and easy to use.

If you have 137 BTC, I would put 125BTC in an Armory offline wallet and have it secured and sleep soundly at night. The other 12 BTC can be used in Electrum for day to day type transactions.

That is good suggestion. So which will you choose in this : Multibit or Electrum?
Kindly,
MZ

HarryT1923

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they have different purposes. if it really is either or, then Electrum.

FattyMcButterpants

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Armory is good for cold storage. i have my cold storage on QT because i haven't touched it in so long, but i prefer Multibit for my desktop hot wallet. Electrum is nice too.

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I chose Electrum, I use the good
PC wallet but lighter, do not need to download the full data like bitcoin-qt & Armory
2-3 minutes also sync if a new install (depending on the number of transactions on the address page)
but when asked to choose electrum or multibit, I would choose the multibit Grin

DrG

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Why not use both?

They serve different functions due to different characteristics. Armory has the potential to have the most setup possible with true cold offline storage. Electrum is light and easy to use.

If you have 137 BTC, I would put 125BTC in an Armory offline wallet and have it secured and sleep soundly at night. The other 12 BTC can be used in Electrum for day to day type transactions.

Muhammed Zakir

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Now a days, Armory is better. It provides better security but you will have to download whole blockchain. You can download bootstrap.dat and copy it into wallet directory. Many BTC stealing Malwares and Trojans has came. So it is better to choose more secure wallet than lighter wallet. You can also avoid getting stolen by installing good antivirus and removing non-trusted softwares.
Kindly,
MZ

zhinkk

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Electrum. I don't have enough funds to be super sensitive and make proper paper wallets and everything so it's enough for me to just write down the seed. Plus it's just so fast. Everything from the installation to general use, it's amazing imo. And it's written in my favorite language.

thecoindoctor

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great thread as usual. thanks

whitefly

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I used Electrum once, and I was satisfied.
However I never used Armory, so I won't for anything right here.
You can also try both of them to see which one suits you.

WillyBTC

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Quote from: hyperdimension on July 21, 2014, 02:56:34 PM

Im still undecided, using core for a while, but too daaaaaaaamn bloaty.

Agreed. After having it hog my resources for a week, I switched to Electrum. Much better.

jbrnt

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I have not tried armory and I have only been using electrum for a couple of months. Cannot give you a comparison, I can only say there is nothing I dislike about electrum.

InwardContour

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Electrum is more user friendly, I'd recommend it for people without any previous experience.
But overall I prefer Armory because of it's security, and btw I would not exclude Multibit, it's not so buggy.

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no need to carry heavy money bags anymore

ARMORY

I like design.

Quote from: hyperdimension on July 21, 2014, 03:17:03 PM

Quote from: Rub3n on July 21, 2014, 03:09:11 PM

Armory.

I just saw a video tutorial about Electrum and the guy says Armory is not light and depends on Bitcoin core as well or something like that Huh

Yes, you have to dl blockchain, but who cares? Anytime I can import some of my pr. keys to any lightweight wallet if I need.

hyperdimension

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Quote from: Rub3n on July 21, 2014, 03:09:11 PM

Armory.

I just saw a video tutorial about Electrum and the guy says Armory is not light and depends on Bitcoin core as well or something like that Huh

Rub3n

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Armory.

hyperdimension

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Im still undecided, using core for a while, but too daaaaaaaamn bloaty.

harlenadler

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Agent of Chaos

As a non-tech kind of guy, mark another vote down for Electrum.

Malok

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Newbie friendly all the way: Electrum.

MrBtcSenior

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I'm new but I used Multibit since a year and never had any problem with it, maybe I was lucky but I think it's a great wallet.

Baitty

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If you want your Bitcoin to be secure then you should use Armory otherwise if you aren't to bothered or don't know how to use the advanced features of the wallet then you should use Electrum as it's newbie friendly and pretty straight forward.

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