HWI
Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Interface (by bitcoin-core)
specter-desktop
A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets (by cryptoadvance)
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24 | 75 | |
470 | 787 | |
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8.1 | 6.4 | |
12 days ago | 10 days ago | |
Python | Python | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
HWI
Posts with mentions or reviews of HWI.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
- Safe 3 and compatibility with Bitcoin wallets, sparrow, electrum and others
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Does Trezor support psbt?
You are asking about whether Trezor Suite supports PSBT format, and the answer is no. There's however several options that do support PSBT and work with Trezor, such as HWI, Electrum, and presumably also Sparrow Wallet itself.
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Wasabi doesn't recognize Trezor Model T when trying to add hardware wallet.
If your OS is Linux you need to create a set of udev rules for the hardware wallet to be reachable. The instructions can be found here: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI/blob/master/hwilib/udev/README.md
- 2nd best hardware wallet for PSBT?
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Having trouble setting up my nodes.
Options are HWI or Electrum or some hardware devices' software apps support SPV HWI: https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI Multiple choices of Electrum server: https://blog.keys.casa/electrum-server-performance-report-2022/
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Multi-sig wallet policies
A partial support was already developed by Andrew Chow in https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI (merged just a few days ago), which will probably be released soon; HWI is used by bitcoin-core and several other software wallets, so that release will already bring an improved support − but support for policy registration will be partial and therefore a bit inconvenient to use.
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Is it possible to connect a ledger to bitcoin core?
yes, but you need to use this tool https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI
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[How-To] Ways to use 12 word seeds (BIP39) in Bitcoin Core v22.0 (testnet)
This is usually done with HWI. Some people have forked the code and used it in a nice skinned GUI, but I can't recall the name. Maybe someone can post it here. I did it all through command-line and did a fairly detailed writeup. It's pretty easy, just hard to guess the skillset of the reader.
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Updated Ledger firmware, now can't sign/send transactions
Yes I've used the official Ledger Live software and tried multiple cables, including 2 different Ledger cables. I just updated the udev rules a la https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI/tree/master/hwilib/udev but still nothing. I can see everything in Ledger Live, can activate my Manager, etc, just I can't send anything from Wasabi anymore.
specter-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of specter-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-19.
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Don't rush straight to another hardware signing device, learn the basics of Bitcoin self custody first [Serious]
https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow
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Running a BTC node (Citadel) - now what?
You can for example use it to run specter-desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) on top for example, to use your hardware wallet with improved privacy or even mix them together to create multi-sig setups.
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What happens if Trezor, Ledger ect wont exist anymore?
Also, the functioning of your hardware wallet isn't dependent on this corporations still existing. There is various free and open source software that lets you manage your hardware wallet, and even combine them to make multi-sig wallets (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) . This lets you access all information via your own Bitcoin node, no third party system required, fully decentralized.
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Running Core as a wallet
Take a look at Specter Desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) , which is a web interface for Bitcoin Core that lets you use basically every hardware wallet directly with your node.
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📑 MiniBolt resources 📚 List of the MiniBolt core/bonus guides + latest versions
Specter Desktop v1.14.1 (Released: 08th December 2022) - https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases
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Why does everybody trust wallets so much?
Alternatively you can purchase multiple devices from different manufacturers and create a multisig wallet that requires multiple signatures from multiple devices. Wallet software like Specter-Desktop can help you with this. They also have a DIY signer https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-diy
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How safe is Ledger/Trezor really?
What you can do is to use one or more of this hardware wallets with your own node and a software like specter-desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) on top. This way you are completely self sufficient.
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Ledger Error '0x6a80'
It is most likely an issue that is solved in the upcoming version of Specter; you might be interested in trying this prerelease, or wait for the official release: https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.13.1-pre1
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Bitcoin Browser Wallet?
Specter runs in Electrum, but you can technically set it up to be run through a web browser, as long as you're hosting the service yourself.
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⚡ Raspibolt Monthly Rundown 🌕 May 16th, 2022 - Guide & software updates, new Github pull requests & issues and other news
Specter Desktop v1.9.4 - Release page - Upgrade guide UIUX: Overhaul of UTXO list, handling of locked UTXOs and scrollbar added to tx-table web component; + various bug fixes, chores and docs. See release page for full notes.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing HWI and specter-desktop you can also consider the following projects:
electrum-personal-server - Maximally lightweight electrum server for a single user
sparrow - Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source.
Bitcoin - Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
WalletWasabi - Open-source, non-custodial, privacy preserving Bitcoin wallet for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
electrum - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
bip39 - A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes
seedsigner - Use an air-gapped Raspberry Pi Zero to sign for Bitcoin transactions! (and do other cool stuff)
BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android. Built with React Native
electrs - An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust
zeus - A mobile Bitcoin wallet fit for the gods. ⚡️ Est. 563345
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