Worst Online Crypto Wallet Ever! [Poll] - page 2.

bitmover

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Quote from: Slow death on May 24, 2019, 08:21:12 AM

the worst wallet is blockchain.com; I remember until today the last day I used blockchain.com:

I had enabled 2 factors in my blockchain.com account, and that day I needed money urgently, so I went to my blockchain.com account and when I log in, I wait to receive the sms with the code, the sms does not enter on my cell phone ... I wait for hours and nothing. The sms did not enter my cell phone, days went by and I decided to send support ticket and they sent me a link to disable the 2 factors. I make all the procedures to disable the 2 factors, but it was useless because it did not work. I was already desperate and I gave up. until days later that started to receive many sms with the code of my wallet of blockchain.com

I immediately make login, withdraw all my funds and disabled the 2 factors by sms and looked for another wallet

I understand you were upset with their security system, but this doesn't make blockchain a shitty wallet imo.
You shouldn't have done any of what you said (tickets, sms, support etc). You should just have imported the privatekey and used somewhere else. You could use it even on blockchain.info again without 2fa

A shitty wallet is a wallet that doesn't give you access to your keys.

Patatas

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Thanks for all the detailed posts guys and I can't believe I could relate to so many of you guys where when it comes to blockchain.com's wallet. Unfortunately, not many find it as annoying as Xapo or Coinbase. I could lock the poll but just keeping it open for future references. Thanks @everybody.

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Quote from: figmentofmyass on May 24, 2019, 12:04:56 AM

Quote from: BitHodler on May 23, 2019, 02:08:41 PM

Currently I'm using Electrum and don't see much point in using an online wallet anymore. The good old zero fee days are over and that means they don't offer a worthy to join advantage anymore.

years ago i used to say "it's more convenient" to use online wallets but tbh, it's not. that was just me being biased towards what i was familiar with---specifically, blockchain.info.

with wallets like electrum (on mobile as well) out there, there's no way to say browser-based wallets are more convenient or easier to use anymore. to boot, blockchain.info has a terrible UI now and the fee interface sucks too.

I've got used to Blockchain wallet when just starting up here on crypto and i believe that most people on earlier years do have that experience

on using up this wallet but as years passed when wallets been created like electrum this is way more better than web wallets as of this moment.
Not that heavy or does need to download the whole blockchain thingy.

Slow death

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the worst wallet is blockchain.com; I remember until today the last day I used blockchain.com:

I had enabled 2 factors in my blockchain.com account, and that day I needed money urgently, so I went to my blockchain.com account and when I log in, I wait to receive the sms with the code, the sms does not enter on my cell phone ... I wait for hours and nothing. The sms did not enter my cell phone, days went by and I decided to send support ticket and they sent me a link to disable the 2 factors. I make all the procedures to disable the 2 factors, but it was useless because it did not work. I was already desperate and I gave up. until days later that started to receive many sms with the code of my wallet of blockchain.com

I immediately make login, withdraw all my funds and disabled the 2 factors by sms and looked for another wallet

bitmover

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Quote from: 1Referee on May 24, 2019, 02:42:54 AM

Blockchain.com is actually shitty. It might be an initial landing site for newbies, but they due to there not being Segwit, have to pay much higher fees. Newbies will of course not understand that they haven't upgraded to Segwit, but they will be confronted with much higher fees, and they will feel that in their wallet for sure. Not what I consider user friendly.

That's correct, I had forgot about segwit.

I believe that even a bigger problem is their fee system. They do not allow you to control the exact fee you want to pay (at least about 2 years ago when I used their system), and they suggest a very high fee.
Much higher than a normal legacy address using Electrum, for example (if you know what to do).
This problem could be easily solved I believe.

1Referee

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Quote from: bitmover on May 23, 2019, 11:32:34 AM

I don't think blockchain.info is that shitty.
It's an important wallet for adoption, as it is easy to use and newbie friendly.

Blockchain.com is actually shitty. It might be an initial landing site for newbies, but they due to there not being Segwit, have to pay much higher fees. Newbies will of course not understand that they haven't upgraded to Segwit, but they will be confronted with much higher fees, and they will feel that in their wallet for sure. Not what I consider user friendly.

They publicly stated that Segwit support would happen in Q1 of 2018, but where are we now? It's safe to say that these bastards won't upgrade at all. Thank Roger and Jihan for that.

figmentofmyass

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Quote from: BitHodler on May 23, 2019, 02:08:41 PM

Currently I'm using Electrum and don't see much point in using an online wallet anymore. The good old zero fee days are over and that means they don't offer a worthy to join advantage anymore.

years ago i used to say "it's more convenient" to use online wallets but tbh, it's not. that was just me being biased towards what i was familiar with---specifically, blockchain.info.

with wallets like electrum (on mobile as well) out there, there's no way to say browser-based wallets are more convenient or easier to use anymore. to boot, blockchain.info has a terrible UI now and the fee interface sucks too.

BitHodler

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I by default would avoid sites such as BTC.com considering how they are doing their best to promote Bcash over Bitcoin, and that mostly in an unethical manner that affects newbies not knowing what's good or bad.

Coinbase was pretty decent until they started asking for your ID in order to use it. I have been using them for like two years prior to their policy change, and it always worked just fine for me. Too bad they went full KYC/AML.

Currently I'm using Electrum and don't see much point in using an online wallet anymore. The good old zero fee days are over and that means they don't offer a worthy to join advantage anymore.

bitmover

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Quote from: 1Referee on May 23, 2019, 07:32:48 AM

The list OP provided consists of the most shitty services already. Definitely wouldn't recommend people to use any of them.

I don't think blockchain.info is that shitty.
It's an important wallet for adoption, as it is easy to use and newbie friendly.

It is not the safer wallet, but if you are careful enough you won't be stolen. Most of complains about their wallet is user's fault (at least it is what I see in this forum)

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Quote from: RapTarX on May 22, 2019, 06:40:09 PM

Coinbase should be tagged as exchange although newbie use it as wallet.

True, but they also have a Coinbase wallet product that is a bit different. Coinbase wallet allows you to store the private keys on the device you're using, which means that Coinbase in no shape or form has any access to your funds. This wallet is free to download and use without a Coinbase.com account, which is a good thing.

I gave it a try once and it really looks like they paid more attention to how they market shitcoins and tokens than to actually offer people a solid user experience.

The list OP provided consists of the most shitty services already. Definitely wouldn't recommend people to use any of them.

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They're all almost equally terrible in my eyes. There's just so many better alternatives out there for storing bitcoin that web or online wallets are probably the worst way you can store coins. I really hate Blockchain's wallet solely for the purpose that a lot of newbies tend to use their wallet as their first means of storing Bitcoin, and a large amount of people get their wallets compromised using Blockchain. Their UI's pretty decent though, and there's plenty of customizeability offered as well. I used to use Blockchain's mobile wallet for daily transactions, but I've since switched over to Electrum for Android.

rdbase

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There was a wallet I remember which had you pay for a membership monthly or annually and they wouldnt charge you for any transactions fees of what you send from their wallet. They have long removed this membership infrastructure because when miners fee skyrocketed to $20 to send some satoshis they couldnt afford to do it any longer.
Now after a while I have seen reports of their customer complaining they were having their funds disappear or not show up in their wallets after a send was performed to their wallet addresses. I never followed up with these accusations against them so dont know if they are true or not. But it could be why people arent particularly directing anybody to use them.
The name of this online wallet is cryptonator.com

RapTarX

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Coinbase should be tagged as exchange although newbie use it as wallet.
From the above list, blockchain.com is the best one since we can get private key which means we can anytime use the wallet in other device too like importing in electrum.

dunfida

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Blockchain.com
Freewallet.org
wallet.btc.com
Coinbase.com
Xapo.com

All been crashed out i do consider the worst and since i cant choose up multiple on poll then better to write it out.
Some might hate blockchain.com wallet for buggy thing but for small transactions and having the possession of keys
will always be important.

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It's funny how Coinbase ended up in this list of wallets, it's not even considered as wallet since you can't even export your address' private key.
They now didn't even call it as straight wallet in the support page, instead they call it "Wallet Services" like a respelled "Exchange-integrated Payment Processor".
I'm not against those kind of system though, it's convenient for small transactions.

Quote from: https://wallet.coinbase.com/

Take full control of your tokens and collectibles by storing them on your own device.

~my ass.

Blockchain.com's wallet is one example of a real online wallet.

Haven't voted 'cause either I haven't used most of the options or some aren't really a wallet.

figmentofmyass

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Quote from: LeGaulois on May 20, 2019, 05:35:24 PM

Quote from: figmentofmyass on May 20, 2019, 05:08:31 PM

as much as i hate blockchain (especially as the UI has gotten worse and worse over the years), i can't in good conscience say it's worse than hosted/custodial services like xapo, coinbase, and freewallet.

at least blockchain.com and btc.com allow you to control your own private keys.

they should all be avoided though. nobody should be using browser-based wallets where you are vulnerable to malicious code injections/MITM attacks.

Yeah, but for doing small payments during your routine it doesn't hurt, you also ususally don't keep a lot. It's more convenient than taking your HW and connect and then execute a TX. With a web-based wallet, you just log in via a browser in seconds.

i hear that.....i just hate to see new users getting sucked into bad security practices. i think more people than we'd like to think are storing most/all their funds on wallets like these.

with choices like electrum, or mycelium on mobile, it just seems like a no-brainer. why use a remotely executed app when we can run a wallet (including spv) from our own secure environment? it doesn't seem any more convenient to me to use a browser. admittedly i used to do that years ago (store funds on blockchain.info and use it as my main wallet) but from a UX/convenience standpoint i don't even understand why i chose that. i think i was just ignorant about better options.

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Quote from: figmentofmyass on May 20, 2019, 05:08:31 PM

as much as i hate blockchain (especially as the UI has gotten worse and worse over the years), i can't in good conscience say it's worse than hosted/custodial services like xapo, coinbase, and freewallet.

at least blockchain.com and btc.com allow you to control your own private keys.

they should all be avoided though. nobody should be using browser-based wallets where you are vulnerable to malicious code injections/MITM attacks.

Yeah, but for doing small payments during your routine it doesn't hurt, you also ususally don't keep a lot. It's more convenient than taking your HW and connect and then execute a TX. With a web-based wallet, you just log in via a browser in seconds.

Xapo and blockchain, I remember creating accounts years back but nothing attracted me I found their UI horrible and look like the things haven't changed. That's where we can give a point to Coinbase for its UI, but Coinbase can also be one of the worst web wallets when there is a big spike and the website is overloaded and unreachable Grin

figmentofmyass

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as much as i hate blockchain (especially as the UI has gotten worse and worse over the years), i can't in good conscience say it's worse than hosted/custodial services like xapo, coinbase, and freewallet.

at least blockchain.com and btc.com allow you to control your own private keys.

they should all be avoided though. nobody should be using browser-based wallets where you are vulnerable to malicious code injections/MITM attacks.

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I guess, I might use blockchain.com instead of those centralized wallet/exchange on the options. But if I have a choice to cross all of them, I will.

I didn't used blockchain.com anymore due to wallet incompatibility only to send using my mobile and don't want to use their website as well as it's too buggy but still using it for notification purpose when there are upcoming and outgoing funds on the wallet I imported as watch only address.

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Maybe everyone here starts using Blockchain.info wallet and move to SegWit wallets.
Blockchain.info's problem is not being updated (too many bugs.) I went through a bad 1-month error at the end of 2017, when the fees were so high and wallet buggy for long periods with a lot of error.

As a beginner, I do not see it too bad compared to Freewallet.org (central bank wallet) wallet.btc.com (BCH FUD) & Xapo.com.

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