Subnostr

Awesome, thank you for all the links! This'll go right into my next browser session for sure :) (Did I mention I enjoy learning things and researching stuff? Cuz, I do!)

With that end, I think I will work "backwards" from there, and figure out a good wallet situation for myself. Because of how spotty internet is here in my home country of Germany (there is a famous Merkel quote about how the internet is "new territory"...and believe me, it still holds up), I am concerned about my phone losing connection, thus breaking functionality of my wallet - be it to sign transactions or alike.

Within the BitcoinCore docs, I saw mentions of "running lightweight clients", and while building I saw the bitcoin-wallet utility. Now, question is: Can I run something like a "wallet client" on my phone, whilst my real wallet runs somewhere more persistent?

I could, very likely, be misunderstanding how this works. I only just got back from a long city trip so I am actually about to go digging through documentation again. But... while I am in this textbox, I might as well ask. :)

Saberhagen The Nameless 2y ago

The apps I listed are light client phone apps (no node is running on them), what you do is connect to one of a number of trusted public nodes or your own node.

Even with a Monero public node, the privacy you give up is not nearly as severe as connecting to a public node on Bitcoin. The only thing a malicious node could glean is your IP address (you could hide this behind Tor or VPN) and find out the the true spend in a transaction. But the reciever and amount would still remain unknown to them.

So a malicious public node could potentially know the true spender in a ring of decoys, but never *how much* was spent or *who* recieved it. Which is not very much info.

But, ideally, you would want to run your own node at home and have your phone wallet connect to it while you're away for maximum security and privacy.

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Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

Oh that's perfect, pretty much exactly what I want then! Nice, I'll grab the apps for now, but wait untill I have my node and alike set up properly. I like to be self-sufficient so being able to just use my node with my wallet on my phone via my network is nice. :)