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255 sats \ 18 replies \ @ChrisS 25 Jan \ on: Question - why aren't people worried about privacy using Blue Wallet? bitcoin_beginners
You can connect to a private node with blue wallet the same way you can with sparrow. To answer your question maybe sparrow wallet does a better job of explaining and documenting the process and why it’s a good thing to do.
yeah, Bluewallet has tons of features, but its UI design makes them non-obvious to discover.
I'm not being critical of BW because I really like it, but if they could hire an experienced UI designer to revamp, it would probably become much more popular than it currently is...
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blue wallet is done
what is the value prop of blue wallet?
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certainly less popular than it once was....
what is the value prop of blue wallet?
one of the few mobile wallets I know that plays well with using Electrum as an offline signer.
You can import xpub into BW and then compose the transaction in BW and "export" via QRCode to Electrum which can sign and then reimport the signed TXN back into BW to broadcast.
In this way you can use an old (offline) laptop as a signer and have your own "hardware wallet" setup.
Heard good things about nunchuck recently, which maybe can do the same....
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fair point
but... electrum, xpub, hardware wallet, nunchuk... not exactly beginner friendlyl
update: isn't it easier to use CoinOS.io or Aqua wallet?
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Yeah AQUA is much better for beginner. Its in fact my daily driver.
The problem comes with dealing with cold storage. The beginner friendly approach is to get a hardware wallet (which is a decent option). I happen to not be in love with idea of using "hardware wallets".
My concern with them is the "20 year problem". Is any of that going to work in 20 years? Will the computing device you are using have USB ports? Will the hardware even still work by then? etc etc.
Secondly, I got burned by Ledger back in 2018 or whenever their customer list got leaked...I mean the CEO just got kidnapped....not overly excited with having my name / address on someones mailing list.
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good point...
I like CoinOS for beginners because they support on chain, lightning and liquid and it's browser based and no KYC and no password and based in Canada
regarding hardware wallets, I recommend Casa for multi-sig using Jade (plus or not) or Trezor
Ledger is unfortunate... I like Jade, Trezor or Cold Card
I'm a big fan of Casa multi-sig
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I use coinOs, Aqua, Casa, Swan, Strike and River
plus MSTR in my Fidelity account
So...Blue Wallet is potentially inadvertently sharing the exact same information the Sparrow is, in exactly the same way?
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Any wallet (sparrow, blue, trezor suite, ledger live, all of them) are getting information from a node. Its not inadvertent, its how the bitcoin protocol is designed. You have to get information from the blockchain in order to use it. It could be your own node or it could be someone else node depending on how you have the software configured. Some public nodes could be bad actors and share the info maliciously for various reasons, some may not. Either way if you are worried about this, the solution is to run your own bitcoin node and connect your wallet software to it instead of someone else's.
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I like the combination of sparrow, trezor (or jade or cold card) and multi-sig service like Casa
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right and simple answer
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yawn
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+1
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how do I say yawn in Spanish?
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