Topic: Looking for a Bitcoin wallet (Read 975 times)

I think electrum and blockchain.info mobile wallet best. Electrum seems secure however they have relatively poor user interface and many option may be confusing for newbie users. On the other hand mobile wallet from blockchain.info has very good userinterface and easy to understand.

It's been said many times, but Mycelium wallet is probably the best adroid wallet app there is as of now.
For desktop wallets, I use Electrum simply because it's simple and it is a trusted wallet. You can visit bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet and see the trusted wallets there.

if your in philippines you can use coins.ph / rebit.ph/ xapo.wallet so you can easily withdraw your funds in any remitance center easily as 123 you can also withdraw your funds via banks you can also pay your monthly bills via this wallet's i use this you that i don't hassle for paying my monthly bills it help me alot

yes mate block chain wallet would be a good option since its is useful in any how
other wallet have limitation especially when you are involved in gambling so
as for now block chain mate good to start.

if I were you , I'd probably would choose to wear blockchain.info wallet . I think blockchain.info very simple because it is easy to use.
other than that I have not come across such a problem that you are experiencing now .

I went through pretty much the same process as yourself when I first started. I started with a web wallet, simply because it was the easiest and didn't require much effort. Then I delved further into the Bitcoin world and discovered that if your web wallet does not actually give you the private keys (looking at you Xapo), then you effectively don't own any Bitcoin.

As a previous poster mentioned, it is effectively like the web wallet just hands you an IOU and you have to trust the web wallet to honour it when you want to do something with "your" Bitcoins. Also, there have been reports on this forum of users having their Xapo wallets randomly "locked". It seems they have some fairly obscure clauses in their Terms of Service that allows them to lock down your account if you do things they don't approve of. One of these is gambling... I don't know why, but if you send or receive money from online gambling sites using Xapo, there is a good chance your account will be locked.

Anyway... after deciding that web wallets were basically just useful for collating small payments into larger amounts to avoid "dust fees"... I went hunting for a proper wallet. I decided against core, because 1. I didn't have the time nor space nor bandwidth to download the entire blockchain and 2. I wanted something a little more mobile.

I had considered Electrum, because everyone says it is great and I like the idea of having both a desktop and mobile client that would "sync"... but the Electrum Android client... well... IMHO it is rubbish. The UI is terrible and just doesn't seem to fit Android at all. It was slow and painful to use on my device. Granted, it isn't a Quad Core with 4gigs of RAM, but still... Electrum isn't exactly 3D gaming either!

I ended up settling on Mycelium. It just works. It is relatively lightweight, the UI is pretty friendly, it doesn't require an account or anything anywhere. It is a HD (Heuristically Determined), wallet, so you get all the benefits of the automatically "changing" wallet addresses, with just a single Master Seed to worry about. Plus it lets you import other private keys... create "watch only" addresses using public keys etc.

It isn't perfect... I'd prefer if it asked for the PIN code when you bring the app up from the foreground like my Internet Banking app does (I'm considering setting up an android dev environment to try and hack it in and recompile the code)... and I'd like if it let you specify fees manually, rather than the 4 preset fees they currently have (again, considering hacking the code to change this)... and I'd like to be able to manually generate the next address. At the moment, you have to wait until an address receives a payment before a new address is created. I'd like to be able to manually "force" the next one to be generated, so I can give different addresses out as required without waiting or having to reuse an old address etc. (Sadly, I think this is beyond my coding skills)

Anyway, other than those 3 relatively minor annoyances... I have had no issues with the app so far... And I hear there is supposedly a big upgrade/update that is coming. So, hopefully that happens in the not too distant future and the app becomes even better

There are more bitcoin wallet can use by its users and also there are altcoin having own wallet then you will pick what is the best and convenient for you to used and to store your money.

I think if you just search in google you can find the answers even better than ones in here.
But I can't really tell the best one since I only used the online wallets so far.

Ok, you already get an answer to your problem but from your past experience, I'm excited to using my calcium because currently, I using electrum wallet. so thank for your topic it's very useful for me.

I use MultiBit.

You can evaluate your options by operating system and desktop/mobile at
https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

I do actually control the private keys to my wallet and needed an app I could import them into, that was the purpose of this thread, to find a wallet that I could import a private key into. I having been using mycelium for the past few hours and it seems ok so I think I will keep it.

I personally use Electrum for a desktop wallet and I have a Blockchain.info wallet for use on mobile and for smaller amounts. I'd recommend not using web based wallets for a long-term storage or storing large amounts of money in - keeping your own wallet on your own PC to which you hold the private key is recommended as this is more secure - not relying on someone else's security to keep your money safe.

If you do not personally control the private keys to your bitcoin you do not really own them, you just have an IOU from the service you are using. The safest but still convenient way to keep absolute control of your bitcoin is to use a hardware wallet like Trezor or Ledger, both can be used with Mycelium on your phone. Breadwallet is second best choice in my opinion.

I tried the electrum wallet but it took to long to generate the wallet address (im not sure why this was). I am currently using the mycelium wallet and all is going well so far.

As my experience to use any wallet in android i would suggest to you that dont use coinbase because i experience bad in that wallet better to use electrum for android never had any problem using this wallet.

XAPO would not be my first choice of advice.
I rather would say go for the old names in the scene; blockchain and coinbase. Both have good security features and you can also sign messages with your key.

I do currently use a xapo purely for the fact that I do not have to pay fees. I was however looking for another wallet that does not require a sign up.

You might want to consider XAPO. So far it has been working well for me on my Samsung Galaxy S6. I heard they have "military"-grade security for their cold wallets. 

Here is a good one I found on Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=piuk.blockchain.android&hl=en

If its the wallet that looks like the bitcoin symbol your using right now then i would ditch that soon as and install mycelium instead. Mycelium forces you to write down the password seed when you first start it so that you have a backup copy made. The wallet your using although its alright it doesnt offer the same incentive to backup which everyone who has a wallet should do. Either way though for android theres no beating mycelium.