Trying some new Wallets: part 2 - BlockChain.info: What say you?

[ronnieb]

Ok Bitcoiners, Part 2. Gonna do some talks on Bitcoin Wallets, looking for opinions.

Second wallet be Blockchain.info wallet PC and Mobile.

• What's your opinion?
  Looking for Pros and Cons.
  What you like about it.
  What you don't like.
  what would you change?

Link to Blockchain.info http://Blockchain.info

Thanks again for all the help!

Also big thanks to the guys who contributed on the last post especially with the additional wallets that I hadn't seen before!!

posted on the /r/btc here

• https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/3 ... t_say_you/
  https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/3 ... chaininfo/

[bitkilo]

Blockchain.info has been a good wallet for years but recently it has been plagued by hacks and people losing all their coins, granted nobody should be keeping coins online anyway but they will continue to do so.
Just do a quick search on Reddit and you will see heaps of posts about blockchain.info hacks.

I do like the fact that you are able to sign an address using blockchain.info, not all wallets have this feature.

[BitcoinXio]

Blockchain.info has been a good wallet for years but recently it has been plagued by hacks

As far as I know, there have been zero "hacks." They have had I think two issues with RNG over the past year where once was and Android issue (?) and recently it was their issue where they were using a third-party site to pull random numbers from which broke because it was using http instead of https; either way, it was their fault for doing that creating poor entropy. These weren't "hacks" but poor programming in my opinion, and they fixed the issues and also refunded users that lost any coins due to the poor RNG issues.

[bitkilo]

They did refund the users and that was very good of them.

[coinableS]

Although they have a "bad rap" on certain social media outlets for the RNG issues they had on android, I very much enjoy blockchain.info's wallet. It is very easy to use and a huge bonus is their open and free API platform for web developers. They just released version 2 of their Receive Payments API and they have a new wallet that's in alpha that's definitely worth checking out.

[ronnieb]

I do like the fact that you are able to sign an address using blockchain.info, not all wallets have this feature.

Good to know... I didn't realize this was an option with Blockchain.info. Thanks for the input!!

[ronnieb]

Blockchain.info has been a good wallet for years but recently it has been plagued by hacks

As far as I know, there have been zero "hacks." They have had I think two issues with RNG over the past year where once was and Android issue (?) and recently it was their issue where they were using a third-party site to pull random numbers from which broke because it was using http instead of https; either way, it was their fault for doing that creating poor entropy. These weren't "hacks" but poor programming in my opinion, and they fixed the issues and also refunded users that lost any coins due to the poor RNG issues.

Thanks for the updates. Very nice to see people getting reimbursed!!

[ronnieb]

Although they have a "bad rap" on certain social media outlets for the RNG issues they had on android, I very much enjoy blockchain.info's wallet. It is very easy to use and a huge bonus is their open and free API platform for web developers. They just released version 2 of their Receive Payments API and they have a new wallet that's in alpha that's definitely worth checking out.

Agreed... I had forgoten about the APIs.. also very excited to try the Alpha... heard it was HD??? Not sure of all the details but will have to check it out.

[Windowly]

Just checked out the alpha version. It seems really cool.

I actually use blockchain.info as my main online and mobile wallet (although the mobile wallet sometimes has errors, the latest update seems to have fixed it).

I like that it easy to create and organize. I just wish you could upload a pgp key and they would send letters and notices in that.

Also any wallet that incorporates a joinmarket/coinmix ala Dark Wallet would be amazing.

[BitcoinXio]

Just checked out the alpha version. It seems really cool.

I actually use blockchain.info as my main online and mobile wallet (although the mobile wallet sometimes has errors, the latest update seems to have fixed it).

I like that it easy to create and organize. I just wish you could upload a pgp key and they would send letters and notices in that.

Also any wallet that incorporates a joinmarket/coinmix ala Dark Wallet would be amazing.

I still use Blockchain.info wallet to this day and have never had problems. I use it along with others, but I'm not your normal user I would say lol

[Windowly]

I still use Blockchain.info wallet to this day and have never had problems. I use it along with others, but I'm not your normal user I would say lol

Yes I'm probably not a normal user either. . . but then is there a normal user in the bitcoin ecosystem?

One of the things I like about blockchain.info is that you can change the transaction fee. If I have stored bitcoin for a year or two on an address I don't want to have to add a transaction fee, however minute.