Sparrow wallet great software to visualize and manage your UTXOs!
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Sparrow is the best and there is no second best.
based, me too!
And for mobile?
mobile there is no clear best, there are a bunch of good wallets with different tradeoffs
my favorite mobile on-chain wallet is samourai, but that is android only, without lightning support
other good options:
muun - extremely easy to use - https://werunbtc.com/muun
phoenix - great for lightning payments - https://werunbtc.com/phoenix
bluewallet - many features, easy to connect to your own node, can be used with multisig
breez - similar to phoenix, great for lightning, with a slick point of sale mode
zeus - the best way to use your own lightning node
blixt - great for lightning
nunchuk - nfc support so works well with tapsigners, easy multisig, iOS version is closed source
No one ever mentions blockstream green. If there were one hot wallet I’d recommend to a newbie hodler, it would be blockstream green.
Thanks for the lengty answer, I knew you liked a couple but stuff has been changing so rapidly lately, I needed an update. Your one of the best to ask imo.
I expect many Bitcoiners use GrapheneOS, and there are some eg Muun that cannot operate on Graphene due to requiring Google services. So for GrapheneOS users Samurai wallet is one of the only options, so far.
The features in samourai are enough to get an android phone, just to get the best mobile wallet ever made.
Samourai for onchain privacy enhanced usecase
https://docs.samourai.io/en/wallet
Blixt for a lovely mobile full node and LN wallet with almost all needed features... LNurl is in planning for receiving. Sending to LNurl and LN adress is fully supported..
https://blixtwallet.github.io/
https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/blixt-btc-ln-node-and-wallet
Soon! Or not so soon.
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It’s not even a close competition
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Sparrow is THE perfect ochain privacy tool... use it... love it... support it!
ThX to @craigraw for his awesome work 🍻💯🍻
Until I played with sparrow I had the misconception that when you send an amount out of one address you MUST send the entire amount and the change goes to a new address. The rule only applies to UTXOs, if you have an address with 10 UTXOs of various amounts, using sparrow you can send from a few of those UTXOs and the unspent stay where they were. While that's not really practical since that means you have reused the same address for receiving, it was cool to grasp the concept of UTXO vs address.
I disagree, there's a problem Sparrow doesn't solve, which is losing your privacy from consolidating UTXOs.
Wasabi Wallet solves the problem of consolidating inputs privately since your inputs can be consolidated within a coinjoin, preventing observers from using the common input ownership heuristic to trace that they belong to the same person.
You can do fake or real two-person coinjoins when spending from a post-mix wallet.
Would love a mobile Sparrow wallet. Is this in the works?
There was one for android a few month ago but it has disappeared for some reason.
True! I've setup Sparrow on a Linux Mint desktop a few days ago, airgapped Coldcard, connected to Raspberry node w. Personal Electrum Server. Easy to setup, zero problems. Best UTXO management and multiple accounts. Best wallet I've ever had, feels much safer now and I wouldn't want to go back. 🤙