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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: brutusk on April 14, 2012, 08:18 pm

Title: Best online bitcoin wallet?
Post by: brutusk on April 14, 2012, 08:18 pm
I don't like sending/receiving direct from mt. gox. I am using liberte linux with the midori browser, and so far I have tried walletbit and mywallet, and neither work well with midori. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Best online bitcoin wallet?
Post by: mdmamail on April 15, 2012, 02:41 am
Strongcoin is the only online wallet I'd trust because you can back up the private key, so if something happens to them you can still get at your coins.

Download Electrum mini client and can just edit electrum.dat to plug in your public and private address from Strongcoin
Title: Re: Best online bitcoin wallet?
Post by: joolz on April 19, 2013, 12:13 am
bump whats the best wallet to keep btc

Bitcoin-Qt i  ?
Title: Re: Best online bitcoin wallet?
Post by: Just Chipper on April 19, 2013, 12:46 am
bump whats the best wallet to keep btc

Bitcoin-Qt i  ?

Best is subjective. Do you want secure or easy to use?
For secure I would say have an offline/watching wallet setup like Armory.
For easy to use while secure as possible i would say electrum on a LiveUSB like Tails or Liberte.
Bitcoin-QT or a "full node" is cumbersome and resource hungry for a simple user IMO.
Title: Re: Best online bitcoin wallet?
Post by: SouthSquareBiz on April 21, 2013, 01:06 am
+1 JustChipper.
Title: Re: Best online bitcoin wallet?
Post by: jase00 on April 21, 2013, 02:57 am
People seem to have been losing money from blockchain.info wallets lately. I think there was some java malware thing or something..

Seriously don't use *any* online service to store your BTC.. They all eventually get "hacked" and you will lose your coins. I believe evan Ozcoin mining pool just got hacked and lost around 1000BTC.
 
Just use bitcoin-qt and sync up every few days. With the new 0.8.1 client it downloads blocks really quick.  You wouldnt send your real $$ to a random website to look after, so you shouldn't either with your BTC :)
Title: Re: Best online bitcoin wallet?
Post by: joolz on April 21, 2013, 10:26 am
 so nowhere to store it for a rainy day then?  :(   leaving it on the road a good option?
Title: Re: Best online bitcoin wallet?
Post by: jase00 on April 21, 2013, 10:50 am
a 'paper wallet' is the safest method.
goto www.bitaddress.org and generate an address and write down the private key and store a number of times / places...
send BTC to the address

then in a few years (or months) when BTC are $10,000 each you can import the private key into the bitcoin-qt gui (or other client) by clicking on debug console and type in "importprivkey <key> <name>".
Then do a rescan and the BTC shall magically appear.
Title: Re: Best online bitcoin wallet?
Post by: Just Chipper on April 21, 2013, 11:41 pm
a 'paper wallet' is the safest method.
 
goto www.bitaddress.org and generate an address and write down the private key and store a number of times / places...
send BTC to the address

then in a few years (or months) when BTC are $10,000 each you can import the private key into the bitcoin-qt gui (or other client) by clicking on debug console and type in "importprivkey <key> <name>".
Then do a rescan and the BTC shall magically appear.

Yes it is, or a hardware wallet like Trezor.

Don't forget to first go to File>Save Page As and save an offline copy first. Then run the website offline with networking disabled.

I would import the private key with the networking disabled as well just for good measure.