Topic: Help with choosing new wallet - page 2. (Read 1589 times)
I suggest to use the electrum in choosing your new wallet.
Outside of a hardware wallet, I would say Electrum. Its easy to use and more importantly has great multi-sig support.
I suggest this route as well. Does not export a wallet.dat file, but because it syncs on the cloud there is no syncing time, and you can still export your wallet file and/or use your passphrase to recover the wallet on a new machine.
As an Electrum user i can only vouch for it, it has all the features a bitcoin user might need, FBR, Custom Fees, Generating multiple addresses, 2FA, Nice User Friendly Interface, Mass Pay option etc. Plus the advantage of not downloading the blockchain and getting up in minutes is the best point about electrum. It syncs up with the Blockchain via 3rd party servers hence making it act as a cold storage too. I have few 32 GB usbs containing windows and electrum on them, Its the perfect cold storage for me atleast. But if you want to store the whole blockchain then you should look for a portable solution like external hard drives, Plus the blockchain size always grows, so you will eventually run out of space. Electrum is like an swiss army knife, its size may be small but it can do everything a user might need.
My advice will be get 2-3, 32Gig usbs and install linux on them, get a copy of electrum and save the seed and use the same seed on all 3 systems, It will perfectly act as a cold storage for you. Good Luck.
My advice will be get 2-3, 32Gig usbs and install linux on them, get a copy of electrum and save the seed and use the same seed on all 3 systems, It will perfectly act as a cold storage for you. Good Luck.
Can also vouch for Electrum.
Though I still use Bitcoin Core on my desktop. Gotta help out the network when I can.
Though I still use Bitcoin Core on my desktop. Gotta help out the network when I can.
I'd recommend Electrum as well, the overheads of running Bitcoin Core are too much for me now. I'd suggest you have a good read through this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/general-bitcoin-wallets-which-what-why-1631151 before making your mind up. There's a lot of useful information in there.
Outside of a hardware wallet, I would say Electrum. Its easy to use and more importantly has great multi-sig support.
Great thanks
Given that the blockchain is currently 150+ gigs... unless you feel like dropping USD$70 on something like this: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-256GB-Flash-SDCZ48-256G-U46/dp/B00YFI1A66
Your best bet is an SPV wallet... Electrum is probably a good choice (https://www.electrum.org/#home)... the wallet files themselves are generally less than 100KB (depending on the number of addresses/transactions etc)... it uses 12 word seed backups, so you can have solid backups... and there is a "portable" version, so you can put the whole thing on the USB key... it has fully customisable fees including "dynamic" fees and "RBF" to prevent and/or "fix" stuck transactions...
In addition, the application is actively maintained and there is a large and active user group on these boards here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=98.0
Your best bet is an SPV wallet... Electrum is probably a good choice (https://www.electrum.org/#home)... the wallet files themselves are generally less than 100KB (depending on the number of addresses/transactions etc)... it uses 12 word seed backups, so you can have solid backups... and there is a "portable" version, so you can put the whole thing on the USB key... it has fully customisable fees including "dynamic" fees and "RBF" to prevent and/or "fix" stuck transactions...
In addition, the application is actively maintained and there is a large and active user group on these boards here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=98.0
I have been using multibit wallet for years storing the roaming/multibit folder on a backed up usb key and transferring to and from my laptop when i need to use the wallet this works fine but every time i copy the folder to my laptop and start multibit it takes time to resync this time takes longer and longer and I have now found that multibit is no longer supported/updated so i need a new wallet
I want a wallet that will let me store the wallet.dat file and the blockchain (or whatever it is i need to sync) on an usb key
can anyone tell me which wallet will let me do that
cheers
I want a wallet that will let me store the wallet.dat file and the blockchain (or whatever it is i need to sync) on an usb key
can anyone tell me which wallet will let me do that
cheers
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