I look at reviews and guides like BTC sessions. Watch them carefully and see if the wallet does what I want it to do.
Then I check popular forums like stacker.news, Twitter, and nostr, and you can now use AI tools, to see what people say about the product in general. Try to find any problems or complaints.
You can also use an AI tool to help you look at a projects GitHub page, look at the open issues, ask your AI things like “what are developers working on?” “Any unresolved issues?”
This way you can use a sort of “web of trust” to review the code and products you decide to use, even as someone who cannot read code themselves.
For example I can start you off with a few products:
Hardware:
Coldcard
Blockstream Jade
Software:
Sparrow wallet (desktop)
Nunchuk wallet (mobile)
Software wallets for spending:
Aqua wallet
🔥🧡 good luck!
1. Read some sources cross the Internet (
2. Security, open source, usability, anonymity, custody
3. I have compared some software wallets like cake wallet ,electrum,nunchuk sparrow,wasabi wallet ,but no hw wallets.
4. Athena alpha: https://www.athena-alpha.com/
But what u want to choose depends on what u want to do.
Would u like playing around, hold ur btcs for a long time, obscure ur funds etc.
Thanks for responding!
Do you do the comparisons you mention yourself? By simply going to each wallet project's page and comparing? Or is there a way to do this "automatically"?
I have a rough idea, but I'm trying to figure out if it's just my need, or if it's something that would help the community. 😁
Hello
No Ive done sone test drives on my devices with several wallets.
In an automatic way ? I think it's difficult may If u're an person ( or know one) with good dev. Skills.
My advice is that u should just playing around for urself first with some wallets and when possible to use the testnet.
Then I think u will realize if u would digging deeper for an community project or just for u. Or sth in-between.
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Thank you so much for this response! Okay, this is exactly my point about an idea I have.
What you describe is what I think most knowledgeable users do, but I feel like it creates a gap for less experienced users, who are looking for shortcuts.
What if there was a page where you could objectively compare the features of many different wallets at the same time? Would you use it?
In fact, this could even help with smaller wallet projects that may not be as well-known, but whose features would make them excellent options.
Yes some people make graphics and websites comparing wallets
The problem here is the centralized source of information, so if a more advanced pleb wants to check things for themselves (don’t trust, verify) then they have to go through the process themselves.
For less experienced people I think they can do the same thing, but if it’s a newbie family or friend of yours then best is to just tell them what works for you- since they trust you.
I think it’s just like with the products themselves, all these methods have their own tradeoffs and nothing is perfect
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There dozens off possibilities:
For example:
U can create an wizard with questions and then u give an wallet recommendation.
Or an matrix may with 2 versions for experts/beginners.
I think it's a good idea no matter what u would do or not , to use an view on things in an way that u can an explains like an child ten/five years old.
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