Topic: Which online wallet for bitcoin is safer? (Read 1503 times)

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I also prefer Blockchain.info wallet, well I can't say others which I've tried as well have any problem (Hashnest and MEW (which I am still using for tokens)), but Blockchain. info on the first place to me. It would better they add some other popular coins, but maybe they will add it later.

IMO, even for online wallet standard Blockchain has laughable security.
Coinabse are not wallet, they are exchange, with wallet feature added.
If you need online wallet with 'ok' security, you can try Xapo although they have crappy Customer Support
Besides, there's no guarantee for the website to not get hacked in the future.

These online wallets are only good for saving small amount which you need it for a regular usage. If you plan for long-term storage then choose either desktop or paper wallet to store your money because they are much safer than any of the online wallets. Online wallets are good for regular usage so I too use XAPO and blockchain wallets but never save more money on these wallets.

I think blockchain.info wallet is the best. I am not facing any problems in blockchain because its security is very strong. Even i also using coinbase wallet. You can buy/sell BTC, ETH and LTC without any risk. So i think both blockchain and coinbase wallet are safe. Even using that's wallet are very easy.

I wouldn't call that very old, how many did you have in there?
From what I've seen, Jaxx has a lot of complaints with their service, I wouldn't trust them for holding any coins.
Try to move your coins to Desktop wallet if possible, if not try to find another online wallet with trust in the community

i found a very old save key from jaxx.io its about 165 days old and still got my balance there .
And saw they offer many coins in one place looks really great is some one using jaxx regular ?


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Do you have access to their cold wallet ? How do you know their cold wallet is secure for you ? What makes you think if they get hacked tomorrow they will have enough funds in their cold wallet to pay everyone back ?
I would tell what advantages one has over the another but I'm sure you're not interested.Get a desktop wallet.

Coinbase wallet currently supporting 4 crypto currencies BTC,ETH,LTC and BCH but they also might add ERC20 token into their wallet in the near future.And coinbase also have cold storage option and coinbase claiming that is very safe to store the coins in long term but I am not sure it is safe as much as the software wallets which has private key.

yes using this now a few days and i only miss the alt coin Doge .... but its ok not a must
And i really love the frontend of this app nice protofilo .

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Have been using Exodus since 4 months ago and I'm really proud and impressive with the exodus' performance, well I mean Exodus has built-in exchanges (shapeshift) on their software and you can do exchanges on your app easily without getting worried about fees to send something.

Yes, they provide private keys and supports lot of altcoins like Ethereum, Dash, Ripple and Bitcoin Cash.

ok as i know coinbase only provide bitcoin and litecoin wallets i search multi coins Exodus do dis and they provide private keys .....


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Coinbase can be your option mate. There are very few number of people only using it as because of online wallet. There they have the exchange option to use from the various country but some countries they do not providing option for exchanging.
Exodus I do not have experience on so far.

Still I am not sure safety wise these all wallet or secured one. Hope you use desktop wallet for your safety.

anyone here used Exodus ? How long are they still operating ?
iam searching a new multi coin walled and this looks very great it have all coins i need in one app.
And i can exchange in the same app and its using shapeshift i think inside ....


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Online wallets are used or should be used by those day traders or for those who have very small qty of amount and can sell it immediately when they require money. People who have extra money  or long term should ideally be keeping it safely in offline wallet.

Its quiet odd for a veteran member which doesn't even have too much knowledge when it comes to self awareness on the security of our own wallets. Offline or online its our assignment to secure it out even though they have certain risk on getting hacked but it would be depending on how careless we are in our wallet information. No one can bruteforce a wallet if they don't know the credentials needed.Therefore in the end of the day it would turn out that it would always be depending on how responsible we are.

Hackers are everywhere and they are just seeking someone to attack so whether it's online wallet or offline wallet as long as your private keys are exposed, you are not safe.

You are saying that desktop / offline wallets are good but you are using an online wallet which you said is not safe for you, where are you really at?

As a Hero member and a long time member of the community, you should know that there are precautions for you not to get hacked even you are using online exchange wallet providers. It's a basic knowledge for an advance user.  It's not that a hacker wants our money they can just execute it easily.

Well of course aside from doing a self safety measures make sure that you are dealing on an exchanges that at least established a good name. Although not an assurance that all in all it will be safe, still a good thing to minimize the risks.

If you are perfect in logging into wallet with the correct URL there would not hacking in the any famous online crypto wallet. I have read many threads which has created for the solution on hacking MEW, Blockchain and etc.
If you accessed your web wallet with the fake URL which is similar to the correct one.
There are available Google add ons to find the good and bad website. Please plug in one among them and use it always.

Online wallets can be hacked easily that is the reason online wallets are not safe,but blockckahinwallet.info is one of the best online wallet and I am personally using it too we can increase the security by 2FA.

But I read some bade reviews about cryptonator wallet so I am not used yet but it is a multicoin wallet so we can store multiple crypto currencies in our mobile itself.

its hard to say a online walled is safe but the trusted ones are:

Blockchain.info, cryptonator.com and freebitco.in
All working since many years now and i trust them becourse iam also using them now since years....


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You cant really stop people on bumping out this thread as long its not being locked nor being deleted replies would really come and repeating the same answers all over again.There are already lots of similar threads towards this question about safe wallet for bitcoin.There are lots of options either for long term holds or shorter/active ones.

Yes blockchain.info is well known but it doesn't give you any private key but only mnemonic words when you forgot your login details.

There are various of online wallets that you can use https://bitcoin.org/en/wallets/web/

And for the list of all the wallets that you can trust, https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

You cant guarantee safety of a wallet if you use and hodl bitcoin on the same computer but as far as I know blockchain.info is among the well known online wallets and you could start from there.

Here every people in this forum already knows that bitcoin can be saved in what are all the wallet. I do not know the push this thread up unwantedly. You know there are few people like this keep on doing when explaining this do not bump the thread.

I hope post mine will stop the no more unwanted posts on this thread dude. If possible. op please lock this thread or delete dude.

All online wallets are so-called hot wallets, and unfortunately, they’re not the safest of all.

Why?

For one, they’re centralized. It doesn’t really make sense for crypto-enthusiasts to promote the hype of decentralization and then storing large amounts of digital cash on a centralized online wallet.

Secondly, like any other website, they’re prone to be hacked. If money is involved, that’s usually good enough reason to try to compromise the security. And if funds can be transferred out to an anonymous address without the possibility or reversing the transaction, that’s even more of a reason to hack.

Solution

There’s not much you can do. Every one has to use a hot wallet every now and then. However, they’re not meant to store large amounts of coins for extended period of time.


#1 - most secure method

It depends on an individual, but I like to think that the most secure way of storing your large amounts of coins is a paper wallet.

You can make a few copies of it, laminate it so the paper doesn’t deteriorate over time, and lock it in a safe, bank or dedicated security deposit box.

However, the best option is to combine both the method #1 and #2.

This way you have access to your coins on a short notice (if you decide to lock away your paper wallets a few miles away from you in a deposit box) because you are in possession of your hardware wallet.

And if you lose it, then you can always revert back to your backup paper wallets.

#2 - even better method

There are certain hardware wallets that are way more secure than the above two methods. For example, a Ledger Hardware Wallet will store your coins securely, because it’s not connected to the internet, therefore, it can’t be hacked.

The downside to hardware wallets is that you can misplace it and then ultimately lose it. Once lost, given the fact that you haven’t written down your private keys somewhere say, you have no access to your coins.

The upside is that these hardware wallets are nearly indestructible, so you not need to worry about breaking them.

#3 - a bit more secure method

Desktop wallets are considered to be more secure than hot wallets. The key word here is considered. That’s because it depends on your level of understanding how secure you can make your computer to be.

If you make it really difficult for a hacker or malicious malware to penetrate your computer, then sure - on paper it is more secure.

In reality, the vast majority of people think that one antivirus software and a system firewall are enough to prevent any security breaches.

It’s probably best to get extra education on security before one decides to store a lot of coins on one’s desktop.

#4 - least secure method

You can engage a 2-step verification process for most hot wallets and use Google Authenticator or Authy to generate access codes. Whilst this isn’t a solution, it puts another layer of security and makes it tougher to breach.

Although, sometimes hackers aren’t the problem. What if the hot wallet company goes bust or they lock you out of your account preventing you from accessing your funds?

Hot wallets are the least secure methods of storing your coins.

Summary

As you can see, it all depends on you and the amounts of coins you plan on storing. It might sound scary, but this is the reality. It’s best to be safe and take that extra step than to be sorry.

Good luck!

He don't know that there are cases that even with those passcode's, passwords or any type of security can be breached due to the system's weakness. And he don't understand once that coins.ph is a victim of breaching and there are hackers who went through their system, all of their funds will be stolen due to the back end attacking and even they have those type of securities they are not exempted once the hot wallet where all the balance of their users are gathered will be stolen. I would have a big trust to a desktop wallet that is allowing me to hold my private keys and the same goes with hardware wallet.

As an addition, you can also add a google authenticator so that your funds will be also safe if you will become a victim of phishing.

Do you think having a passcode before entering into the wallet is safe for you funds?

No online wallets are safe to use because they don't have private access so the companies are controlling our fund like what banks are doing to our fiat savings.So they can do what they want and the main thread of online wallet is getting hacked now a days.SO we need to store our bitcoins in wallet which provides private key access.Electrum is one of the best wallet for bitcoin.

What is wrong with someone learning the more difficult way of operating a wallet and performing transactions correctly from the start?


The first thread I went to for information about bitcoin wallets, not alt coins, had a fairly strong warning against using  the blockchain.info wallet. There was a rebuttal, but the person insisted... I cannot really speak for the use of that wallet, but just to relay this from a 'pinned' message. Perhaps issues have been fixed.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/read-about-blockchaininfos-web-wallet-and-stuck-transactions-1914800

For me, I am using coins.ph as my online wallet. For me, it is safer. Why? Because even it is an application installed in your mobile phone, it is still have a pass code before it can be viewed by the owner, and additionally it is very convenient to use.

I've been using blockchain.info since I've started and that was about 4-5 years ago and never had any problems whatsoever. Confirmation by email if the IP address is changed and 2FA. Your wallet is safe as much as you're careful about it, no wallet is absolute with security.

The safest online one is blockchain.info but the easiest to use is coinbase

You are just pertaining on exchange wallet to be used as your main online wallet isn't really advisable specially you are storing it up lots of coins with big value. Its always been suggested to store it up on those wallet where you do own your private keys. The thing that gives you convenience when you store up bitcoins on exchanges is that can easily buy directly altcoins without any problems or an instant since you do have a fund already store on your wallet but for long term or keeping purposes then better to choose up much better wallets like hardware or desktop.

Any web wallet is good as long as you can benefit from it and a good wallet is that has an exchanges in it. It is convenient to use specially if this exchanges wallet is available to your place for any withdrawal of your funds. Yet you can try any wallet you like as a beginners wallet e.g. blockchain, when i am a newbie before i've used blockchain as a starter.

If you are not keen on logging into sites and do have a habit on directly inputting informations without even checking on which site you did logged in then most likely you would really end up on getting scammed.I do admit that blockchain is a good wallet since I have used this wallet when I'm still a newbie but now I moved out into electrum. Web wallet or even on pc wallets do have risk on losing money if you are really careless but regarding on level of risk then web wallet do have it more.It a wise choice for op to use up ledger on storing up.

I'm also using blockchain.info, it's a good web wallet and does hold 3 type of coins as you mentioned the other two. I don't have any single problem with them but if you want to store big sums of bitcoin, ethereum and BCH it will be good if you'll put that somewhere which is more secured like hardware wallet. Majority of the people here are into blockchain.info but there are some that are using greenaddress, coinomi, electrum and they prefer desktop wallets.

That is your fortunateness dude, I have friend who lost the money from the blockchain.info wallet. One thing you have to keep in your mind is don't logging into the wallet with the Google results because most of the people lost the money with this way with the fake ads in the Google results. So be careful you are logging into the exact site.
Using online wallet is not at all a secured way to keep your bitcoins are altcoins. You have to choose the hardware or desktop wallet to have the fund safely.

blockchain.info is safe for me, almost 3 years i stored my bitcoins on this online wallet and never had a problem. I think most of bitcoin users here are using blockchain.info because it's easy to use and this wallet also stored ethereum and bch.

As long as you hold private keys or seed then your bitcoin is in good hands so don't need to worry about and just make sure you don't disclose your private keys to anyone. Maybe you want to consider using coinomi as it caters a lot of tokens and let's you hold private keys and it's also supported some hard fork coins like bitcoin gold.

I suggest mycellium is the safe wallet with private keys  that we can secured our money.  OR Use one of the thin clients like Electrum.  Very easy to set up and you own the private keys.

Electrum is a safe one and as well as greenaddress but it's better if he can avail a nano ledger s. It's the safest of them all but for someone that is just starting out, tell him/her that he shouldn't deposit it or hold it through exchange. Blockchain.info is a good choice as others stated.

He do made such introduction for more characters to make the post looks longer and appealing on the eyes which I would say its not really necessary at all since he just like to mention on his experience.
Blockchain is reliable though as long you do keep your phrases safe away from other peoples awareness.

You don't have to have that kind of introduction, you can just say that blockchain.info is safe because of your experience.

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It's blockchain.info it is one of the most popular web wallets and you just need to keep your recovery phrase.

Hi,


Hello every one,.My name is Deshan and im from sri lanka.
I am very interest Bitcoin,( BTC )

Now it's price is 16825.07 US Dollar ( 20.12.2017 )


And we have more wallets to transferring,collecting and savings Bitcoin.

* Hardware Wallets
* Hot Wallets and etc.......

However more wallets in bitcoin,.But i think Blockchain is safe for us. (  https://blockchain.info/wallet/#/ )
i used blockchain wallet .no problem,working safety and smartly.
so i think Blockchain is safe.I think this wallet is good.
 
  But remember that.this is only my decide..just i think.

Thank you!

I saw some dev ask to send 0 eth with something in advanced data on myetherwallet!

Is it safe? Can they access our wallet with such trick?

the wallet that provide you private key,It is use to safe.blockchain wallet is one of them.You can use the wallet for store bitcoin.

I have used block.io wallet with no problems for the past 2-3 years it could be given a chance but when it comes to choosing a wallet based on ppularity i believe blockchain.info wallet is as good as they come.

For your information none of the online wallets are safe. If you use online wallets then your coins are at risk and you don't have the control over your coins. If you don't have control over your own coins then what is the use of storing coins in online wallets. One fine morning when you get up from the bed and try to open the wallet, you will notice that it has gone offline with all your coins. You can take the example of nicehash. So tell your friend not to use online wallets.

I think for me the safe wallet is mycellium even though sometimes I encounter a large fee of transactions its okey atleast my money that i keep on that wallet is safe in spite of pin and passwords that I am the only one who knows.It provide private keys that can secured our money.

I don't see any connection if you have ledger nano S and your friend wants to buy some bitcoins. Basically you don't need hardware wallet to make bitcoin purchase unless you will do a risky P2P transactions.

Moving forward, choose the one that is recognized as legit exchange company. For global exchanges that touches most of the countries, your friend can consider Coinbase. Check the fees and deposits methods there if it will be convenient on your friend's side. If there is a local exchanger there that is a best option too as it will touches local payment system available in your country for faster transaction.

I think you did not loose your fund which you saved in the blockchain wallet. Actually your information is not correct. We will not gurrentee any online wallet are safety wallet. I have lost around 0.8 BTC from my wallet. This was happen last year and that too while surf about wallet URL in the google search.
If you have more fund in the blockchain wallet means please ignore that you are having huge funds that will not safe for you..

I only know the safe place to save bitcoin is in blockchain.info but as usual, you need to save the private keys in the safe place and not tells to anyone. but I think he needs more than an online wallet to save his bitcoin and maybe hardware wallet is a good suggestion to him. the online wallet has a chance to be hacked by the hackers and this is why I suggesting hardware wallet especially if he owns more than 5-10 bitcoin. maybe paper wallet is good for him too and lets he decide which wallet he wants to use.

Guys, client apps don't have different fees.  Clients like Electrum and Mycelium have different algorithms for automatically choosing a fee based on market conditions.  If the fee seems high it's not the client but the network's current conditions driving it.  You can in fact override the suggested fees (at least on Electrum) and enter anything you want.  But keep in mind that entering a lower fee will potentially cause your transaction to take days or weeks to be confirmed.

Bitcointalk is full of threads with people crying the blues about stuck transactions who entered a fee that was too low for conditions.

It won't be nice for you to save your entire or huge bitcoin savings in an online wallet, because you never can tell, anything can happen. We have heard numerous stories on hackers, bugs or even malwares.

To save for huge bitcoin savings, you should consider using Ledger and Trezor. They are the tops when it comes to considerable offline savings for huge bitcoins.
But if you want the online wallet for collecting and sending bitcoin. Then in my opinion, I think the best are;
https://wallet.mycelium.com and
https://Electrum.org
There have been good reviews about them. And I personally use Mycelium, good online wallet if I must say.
Both can be useful for both desktop and Android .

For now i am using multiple bitcoin wallet because i want to divide my fund to lessen the risk of it.

I am using blockchain.info, mycelium, coinbase and our local bitcoin wallet coins.ph also now i added electrum in my list of bitcoin wallet.

All of this are great services and i do not encounter any problem regarding wirhdrawal and transaferring my fund.

I will recommend these wallet to those people who are looking for safe online bitcoin wallet.

Also i like to have multiple wallet to have a choice which is the wallet has small transaction fees.

Yeah, Mycelium is nice wallet, also support hw wallets like trezor and ledger. Do not use any online web wallet unless they do not provide you private keys.

I suggest mycellium is the safe wallet with private keys  that we can secured our money.A little bit lower transactions fee when transfering, it is good for keeping our money.It is a good choice and trusted wallet.

I really suggest web wallet supported by blockchain, others say don't believe hosted web wallets but in my country I haven't experience trouble on transactions in blockchain (: since, I am participating a campaign and the project is introducing a new web wallet , I recommend it to you sir, but please read, check and review carefully the white paper and ask questions to Dev regarding to the information you want to know. (Dimpay.IO) Think before you click.

Just don't use web wallets!  They're unsafe because you do not have access to your private keys!

Use one of the thin clients like Electrum.  Very easy to set up and you own the private keys.

Don't search on google when you are trying to access blockchain.info, there are too many misleading and fake sites that are phishing links.

Getting those information and trying to log in with your account that you won't noticed. This type of problem are now popular and I guess the awareness now has been raised.

Bookmark it and other wallets that you are using so you won't fall with those misspelled phishing links.

I haven't used bitwala, how can you say that bitwala isn't safe if they are providing their users to have their very own private keys? In what aspect of their service they are lack of security? I used few wallets like, blockchain.info and xapo but I left xapo since it has high fees now. If you want to be safer you had to spend some and invest with hardware wallets like nano ledger s and trezor. But for cheaper but intact security, desktop wallets are good.

You're right, desktop wallets are a better choice then web-wallets to keep your funds safely. However a lot of people like a wallet that is easy to create and is accessible from everywhere. So for that aspect, blockchain.info does the job the best. I have no idea how Mycellium works but I don't think it's a really safe option to hold your funds when you use it as a portable device, because your funds could get easily stolen when you connect to malicious WiFi networks.


Blockchain is indeed a good web-wallet, I prefer it over Coinbase because it let's you be the owner of your own wallet keys. Coinbase doesn't have this feature, so you're theoretically not owning the funds that are stored on that wallet. I have never owned a hardware wallet but I heard it's a really safe way to store your cryptocurrencies. But personally I like to save them myself using an old device and a desktop wallet with lots of security features like Armory.

Yes, bitwala provide users private keys which they didn't have any copy of it but there wallet seems easy to use but it somehow not security safe to me.

Blockchain is good wallet it would allow the VPN to verify in the time of login and it have two factor authentication too but if you login to the wallet by surfing in Google results means you may find the fake site same like blockchain. I personally some of the people who lost their money like that in last year. I do use it and I found some little funds still stagnated in the wallet. I hope you can go with the Coinbase wallet since it is secured and you can sell your bitcoin on their same exchange too when you needed.
Hardware wallet and all does not need to keep your wallet safe. You just have your private key and wallet.dat file without shared to anyone.

I've been using blockchain.info for several months or years (I guess) and I can say that this is one of the trusted one and many are treating it as their very own bank.

But I don't advise anyone to treat it as your very own bank, just like tamango do, it's better to have a nano ledger s or trezor for your safekeeping.

Mycellium and electrum is also a good choice for desktop wallets they are few of the trusted and popular bitcoin wallets.

blockchain.info is the safest web-wallet in my opinion, it has the advantage that you have control over your private keys. But the safest way to store Bitcoins for long-term is a paper wallet. It's easy to create and the risk of losing your coins is really low when you create it using the the correct security measures, you can find a guide here: https://www.weusecoins.com/bitcoin-cold-storage-guide/.

Both of them are old and secured comparatively. Always ensure that for any wallet you have activated 2 factor Authorization . This is the most compulsory part of any online wallet to be more secured and safe. Always split the btc among different wallets if you own some big qty of btc else its fine to keep in 1 wallet only.

I disagree. If you insist on using an online wallet, the only one I can recommend is GreenAddress. There are a number of problems with Blockchain.info -- not open source, bad privacy, inability to custom select UTXOs, no RBF, no CPFP, no Segwit.

Personally, I'm annoyed that Blockchain.info implemented Ethereum and is now implementing Bcash before they upgrade to Segwit. I'm seeing new threads everyday from frustrated Blockchain.info users who have stuck transactions. They should at least add RBF so that users can easily bump fees (like they can in Electrum).

Blockchain is a good and safe online wallet and many people also use this wallet to stored their bitcoins here, you also can stored Ethereum too in this wallet. I also use this wallet and i never had an issue or problem so far until now. Everything is smooth and it's simple and easy. Just go try to register first on blockchain OP, i'm sure it will be good for you.

I only choose blockchain.info, you can do anything with this wallet, and one more you can put your ETH at here beside BTC. Remember protect your email oh you will lost everything.

They are safe as long as they function without any problems.

If you make use of an online wallet service where you don't have access to your private keys, you depend on them to keep operating without any problems in order to always be able to access your coins.

If you for example use Coinbase, which is a service that doesn't give people access to their private keys, and they for whatever reason suffer from technical difficulties for a couple of days, you can only hope for the best.

If you would have had the private keys, even if that service remained offline for weeks, you would always be able to move your coins back and forth. It's something very important, but people seem to ignore that.

Most online wallet services for bitcoin are now safe. They are competing and trying to perfect their product. I like Coinbase and Blockchain.

1 vote for blockchain dot info
i have no problem with this and thought never be

certainly blockchain.info is good one and nice choice by huge users.
Make sure you backup and keep your private key carefully and offline!

MyEtherWallet isn't a Bitcoin wallet.


No private keys=no bitcoins. Personally, I created a wallet sometime back to see how it looks and I don't find it so user-friendly and a bit confusing. (but that's just a personal opinion)


Bitwala gives you the private keys, in fact, they don't store any keys, for security reasons. So if you lose your keys it's gone because they won't be able to help you with this.

You need to tell your friend to wise up if he want's to use a online wallet. A lot of the online wallets won't allow you to know your private key so if the website ever goes down through DDOS or other attacks then you won't be able to access your Bitcoin.

Its really all about on ones negligence when it comes to security aspect either on blockchain or electrum wallets because if you don't really have too much attention regarding on security matters then most of the time or theres really a high chance that you would really lose up those precious bitcoins if you are really careless. Regarding on choosing up between blockchain and electrum. I would rather choose electrum since I do feel it much more safer as long you do know how to clean up your pc then you are just fine.

Regular phishing attacks on users using blockchain.info, making them prone to losing their Bitcoin. If you know you have bad web and cyber security habits, using blockchain.info or even ELECTRUM.

If you don't know how to store your Bitcoin properly (encrypting your wallet with a password isn't doing so), then use Coinbase with 2FA, a multisig wallet, or a hardware wallet.

Coinbase is insured and a registered financial institution. If you have enough money to be concerned about its safety, you have enough money to buy a hardware wallet.

i use local Online wallet its COIN.PH and its very accessible but security wise.
before im using Coinbase but they had so big transaction fee almost tripple of my
transaction amount here in Coin.ph .why not try to check locally provided online
wallet.its more security for our funds

For a long time I used Xapo, as is usual in many people who started a couple of years ago in the world of the faucets. While it is true that I have not suffered major problems with that wallet, the fact of not having the private keys during the BitcoinCash hardfork made me think about migrating to another wallet, and now I am using Electrum with great satisfaction.

Almost very open source wallet which you're the holder of the wallet private keys are secure wallet and how safe a wallet is depend on the owner of the wallet because if a wallet is safe and you link the wallet to online virus or keylogger then the wallet is not safe.

https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet is also great link to check all recommended wallets (from hardware to web) and their features

That site is biased, Exodus with top anonymity, lol? Ledger and Trezor should be on top, followed by Electrum.
Exodus is great for every day use, but for full time storage look elsewhere.

Blockchain has a high transaction fee....i personally prefer luno. But ultimately, any one can be secure...you can enable 2-factor google authenticator; that would make it really secure

how you lost account blockchain?

you have lost credentials or blockchain has done something about it 

Nope, no online wallet is 'safe', if you do not hold the private keys -  you do not control or own the coin.

Also, I lost an account on blockchain.info, no longer there but the BTC still shows.. another story there..

I couldn't agree more. Blockchain.info is NOT a safe wallet. Anybody investing into Bitcoin and crypto in general needs to understand wallets. It takes 4+ days between the time you start opening an account on a trading platform and the time your bank account is verified and the funds transferred up and available for distribution (here in the US). Newbies need to spend that time reading up on wallets; installing them on their computers and phones; and getting used to the interface.

Blockchain.info has it's place (I suppose) but certainly not as the primary wallet for ones cryptocurrency.

Didn't know this website before but it gives a good comparison:
https://www.cryptocompare.com/wallets/#/overview

Personally I use Electrum and Exodus, both work fine.

Here we go again:
- https://blog.blockchain.com/2015/05/28/android-wallet-security-update/
- https://themerkle.com/poorly-generated-addresses-cause-blockchain-info-customers-btc-loss/

Yeah, there's probably more. I don't have time to find it out. You shouldn't be putting any amount of money into something that you can't secure fully. If you are going to store coins, you don't want to lose a single cent right? Blockchain.info is NOT a safe wallet by their previous track record and I don't see why any alternatives would be anything worse than that. Stop recommending Blockchain.info to newbies.

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Hardware wallets are not a necessity. The main thing you need is a computer free of any malware and a desktop wallet. Electrum would be the best lightweight wallet.

Edit: No offense but it isn't quite intelligent to be saying Electrum is not user friendly. Anyone who knows the basics of Bitcoin is more than capable of using it.

Hi,

Is there any wallet which can be use to buy and sell the Bit coin and ETH and can be operate through India.

Please let me know.

Thanks.

Paper wallet would be good, but i personally use Electrum for offfline and Blockchain for Online. If i had a wallet, likee you, i would for sure use that. So maybde advise him to buy a hardware wallet?

my brother uses something called paper wallet

but i still cannot comment on that

all web wallets are at great risk from phishing, you should always be careful and do not believe scammers.

Blockchain is the best for me..

In principle, there are no secure wallets on Android. If you need to save bitcoin for a long time, then it's better to use local wallets, for example Bitcoin Core.

I'm using CoinBase but their fees are very high. I also tried MyEtherWallet

Electrum is not very user-friendly for newbies, so people should take note of that. If you are not planning to store large amounts of bitcoins in web wallets, then Blockchain.info is fine. Use both if you need to, but Blockchain.info is by far the easiest web wallet to use.

I use several methods, including web/desktop/hardware/paper wallets and had no problems with any of them. Store most of your coins <80%+> on paper wallets and experiment with the other options, with the rest of the coins. ^smile^

I agree above.
Avoid any web or web-like app wallet to store your money. Secure is the most important and NO 1 issue you should take care of rather than convenience. You can find a list of wallets here: https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet
And do wallet backup and keep passphrase safe otherwise you could scratch your head years later. It happens a lot of times.

So he wants a wallet for PC? Electrum is by far the best.

Don't listen to people talking about Blockchain.info; Never use a web/hosted wallet.

[1] https://electrum.org/

blockchain . info is a good one. Well done for not thinking about Android. Love Android, but hey, friends separate, money separate.

I have ledger nano s but a friend of mine doesn't have and want to buy some bitcoins. He asked me what ONLINE wallet (no ANDROID) is more safe......
what do you think?