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Topic: Need recommendation: Which Ethereum's wallet has features like Electrum's? (Read 67 times)

jr. member
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Thanks for your recommendation and opinion.

Most of the ethereum wallets are closed source since there's a high competition.

Competition for what? For coins, commission or what?

Are you familiar with that?

No, not at all. I haven't even bought ether (that's what the altcoin is called, isn't it?)


It's probably the closest to what you are looking for.

Available on Mac, Windows, Linux. It's free, open sourced, and fully audited.
- https://download.mycrypto.com/
- https://mycrypto.com/


I surfed to https://github.com/MyCryptoHQ/MyCrypto/releases/tag/1.7.13 and two software caught my eye. They are:

https://github.com/MyCryptoHQ/MyCrypto/releases/download/1.7.13/linux-x86-64_1.7.13_MyCrypto.AppImage

https://github.com/MyCryptoHQ/MyCrypto/releases/download/1.7.13/standalone_1.7.13_MyCrypto.zip

I won't use linux-x86-64_1.7.13_MyCrypto.AppImage because I'll need to install AppImage on my Debian 10.9 OS. From what I read on the internet, AppImage contains many security vulnerabilities.

As for standalone_1.7.13_MyCrypto.zip, I downloaded and unzipped it. You know what, it's for the Mac OS.

Summary: It's rather disappointing there's no open-source wallet for Ethereum, unlike Bitcoin which has Electrum.
sr. member
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Most of the ethereum wallets are closed source since there's a high competition. I don't know any other wallets that has desktop version apart from MyCrypto. Are you familiar with that? It's probably the closest to what you are looking for.

Available on Mac, Windows, Linux. It's free, open sourced, and fully audited.
- https://download.mycrypto.com/
- https://mycrypto.com/
jr. member
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I wish to dabble in Ethereum and am looking for a software wallet that has all the features of Electrum and more:

1. works on the laptop or desktop machine
2. Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows (in that order)
3. option not to install it on Linux (Electrum has this feature)
4. free and open-source
5. large community support like [phishing] if and when I need help with your recommended software wallet

Thanks in advance for your recommendations.
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