Well for me i just using bitcoin online wallet with coinbase because blockchain wallet are asking for a fee.. that is why i use coinbase for small transaction or for daily transaction because they are not asking for a fee for every transaction like other online wallet.
My main wallet is electrum which is much safer than in online wallet..
You need to understand that bitcoin network is dependent on transaction fees - maybe not as much now, but in the future when block reward will be decreased, fees will be primary founding way for miners.
No fee policy of Xapo or Coinbase is making people forget that sending BTC is not totally free - for that you are giving up your privacy, control over your private keys and become subjected to their idiotic Tos.
As for the 'safer' than blockchain.info argument - I don't know any case of security breach (on the host part) which caused users of blockchain.info to lose BTC either.
A question and comments:
1) Now that blockchain.info uses HD wallets, does that allow importing Private Keys (the way to transfer BTC from an Opendime)?
2) I once had ALL of my BTC taken from a blockchain.info wallet (I worked with them, and eventually (two days or so) got it all back. To this day I do not if it was a HACK of some sort, or some kind of operational issue with blockchain.info.
3) blockchain.info used to offer a mixing service, which I liked, but apparently it is not secure, and no longer offered.
4) I do not do micro-transactions, all I really want is a sturdy system that WORKS dependably. I am willing to pay for that. I don't care if the fees are
BTC0.0002 or even higher, as all of my transactions are "important".
5) As many here at the forum have advised, I only keep a "working amount" of BTC in my web wallet, the rest on hardware wallets.
ad. 1. Blockchain.info's new wallets make use of a bip39 recovery seed - so in theory it is possible to use this seed in evry wallet which support this.
I don't know if you can import your seed from other wallet as I hadn't tried it, and "Import" option which previously were present is missing.
But exporting is perfectly possibl, here is detailed explanation how you can do this:
https://github.com/OmniLayer/omniwallet/wiki/Exporting-Private-Key-from-Blockchain.info-and-Importing-to-Omniwallet.orgad. 2. I know cases when users lost their bitcoin balance stored on Blockchain.info - but that was because their wallets were hacked directly, not because service were compromised in any way.
The is however probability that wallet service might encounter some technical difficulties - it seems to be the case here.
ad. 3. I never used it and I can't comment on functionality of that feature.
ad. 4. The only factor which is important here is your fee in comparison how much 'big' i.e. how many inputs your transaction consists of.
As of now standard ~230 bytes transaction results in a fee of ~20k satoshis it will be processed no matter which wallet you are using.
