Bitcoin is not broken: wallets are. The most important comment today.
In an environment with high popular demand, dangerous hackers, transaction spamming, and contentious forks, wallets currently need the following features to be reasonable:
1.dynamic fee estimation (preferably using 0.15's new algorithm)
2.manual fee override
3.RBF (for sender to try several low-fee attempts despite a deadline)
4.CPFP (for when the receiver wants to help confirm a transaction sent with a low fee)
5.SegWit support
6.block header monitoring (for general fork awareness)
7.direct connection to one or more private bitcoind servers
8.Tor support
9.Bcash-altcoin sweeping
10.(coming soon) Segwit2X-altcoin sweeping
11.either secure element support or external hardware wallet support
12.message signing support (useful for setting up deals or doing coin voting)
On Android, Electrum is consistently writing good features but places a lot of trust in their servers (although you can point to your own machine). GreenAddress always has updated safe features (but their 2fa interface is complicated and should be less in your face, since it's optional). Samourai Wallet promises to keep you off altcoins.
Of the above, only GreenAddress is available on the iPhone.
I used to recommend Mycelium, Breadwallet, and CoPay, but they've all failed important tests above. Even GreenAddress's optional 2fa is failing some customers trying to extract their Bcash.
I have considered only phone wallets above. For normal people, phones are more likely to be secure than desktops. But if you own more than you want to walk around with (secured by the phone's lockscreen and a spending pin), and can secure an offline computer, then you'll end up using either bitcoind or Armory. Old timers will know that already. Normal people will buy a Trezor or a Ledger Nano S.
edit: name fix
edit2: was missing from the list: manual fee override, direct conneciton to private bitcoind.
late edits: notes about Armory and my focus on phones. add signing messages feature. note GreenAddress Bcash problems, add Tor.
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Very useful...thanks..steem on
tnks boss
Dogecoin up today :)
thank you boss...followed @africka
One secure wallet for all coins would be nice...like the PillarProject -top 50 coins! What are your thoughts on this new wallet in the works, and their security?
Well most wallets should preferably only give a UI to a generally well preserved modular bitcoin library such as Libbitcoin (not sure about its state).
If Libbitcoin, or related projects, don't have the resources to implemented these features, it is time to somehow find more resources (combine powers, support it and perhaps offer?). It is not efficient, and less secure, if all wallets have to implement these features on their own.
I do like Armory. When I recommend first wallets to people I only consider phones, since they're more likely to be secure. But I guess the only thing on this list Armory doesn't do is bcash/s2x-sweeping. And I guess possibly "header monitoring" of forks. hoped it helped @ko-kahuna
I just installed Electrum to try it out! Thank you!
that's also great.....and you are welcome too,your vote was much appreciated
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STOPYou are right! The recent DDOS hack on cex.io is one such example. But the amazing thing is, people's choice on investing in crypto is still increasing. Nothing is stopping us to being rich ;)
ohh yhh....until we are ,we aren't stopping