Topic: Is your Android Wallet secure? Most of the 37 wallets should scare you! - page 3. (Read 927 times)

There is a way to secure you wallet
first make sure your android account are well secured
second remove software that are not needed sometimes we install software we dont know
third dont just install softwares that are supspecious
fourth for wallet always make sure that its legit and never use wallet that are just a week release instead use the proven one
and lastly this very inportant secure your wallet sometimes its not the phone is not the issue bit we forget to properly secure the wallet make layers of security that is the proper way
I hope I can be able to educate everyone thanks

Strike!


I only started the project and most wallets don't care cause users don't care yet. I expect many of the non-verifiable ones will slip into the verifiable section if people care.

Once people care, wallets that remain non-verifiable turn more into red flags by my estimate. Also I intend to raise the bar once people move towards caring.


Then verifiability is still for you. Only if a wallet is verifiable does the verification anybody does matter. You like 99.999% of all users take what's there on Google Play but if one researcher reviews the code and the code actually has to do with the app you are running (it is verifiable), you gain security from that guy doing his scrutiny.


In the individual articles I only distinguish between "does not apply", "verifiable" and "not verifiable". No source being available is the easier version of not verifiable, as then I don't waste two hours trying to compile stuff but it's certainly alarming as that means the provider does not want public scrutiny as he could release the code under a license that doesn't allow competition instead.


Are those Android wallets? If you want, share a link on our reddit.


If you are talking about the Bitcoin Core I know, then that is not an Android wallet and in terms of verifiability it ranks in its own class well above all there is on Android, as it actually gets smore scrutiny than all other wallets combined.

Where is the bitcoin core fall into? Should be under verifiable wallet, right? I am maintaining one closed source wallet from the given list but I only transfer bitcoin whenever I convert my crypto to my local currency but not really serving as storage wallet.

Count me in that category. Being verifiable does offer me much security in a sense that I cannot make the verification myself. I am not familiar with codes and I cannot for sure tell whether there are some bad codes inserted into it. But it definitely makes me feel easy knowing that verifiable means there are a lot of competent people out there, like you, who will do the work for the people like me.

By the way, a wallet that I am using right now falls under the no source category. I am using coins.ph as my local wallet. That is apparently worse than not verifiable. I am also using Electrum and it is still not the most secure apparently because it is not verifiable.

I also have eidoo and exodus wallets. I cannot find both of them on the list, though.

This is a great guide. Thanks for this.

The title of this topic is clickbait. And I fell for it.

Anyway, having been able to check your website, I like the idea and the method you how you did it in the methodology page [1] explains what you do and how you do it.

For an average user like myself, I tend to rely on other people's experience and their reviews on how the wallet is and if it's reputable to trust with your funds. Your website tends to answer some of those questions, and having only three verifiable wallets' suggestion on your end doesn't seem to explain a lot for me. In the end, I still chose to have a hardware wallet that I know I would be in control of.

We've been working on walletscrutiny.com for about two months now as a side project and hope to see many wallets that are currently "only" open source to care more about verification and make it into the "verifiable" category.

With the community's support, this project could turn into a permanent thing, with new versions being checked as they are being published and we certainly would also expand to other platforms and more attributes to look at.

Currently, being verifiable unfortunately doesn't mean that anybody would verify any code and we also have ideas how to fix that.

Any feedback welcome