opendime VS btc-rpc-explorer

Satscard and Opendime are physical bearer items https://satscard.com/ + https://opendime.com/ you can load them with Bitcoin and anyone with Internet access can verify the funds.

Gift them an opendime

TIL about Opendime.

You're looking for a satscard or an opendime. Both made by the same company.

The best option is to gift the recipient Bitcoin via an Opendime. This allows the recipient to be the only person to ever see the private keys.

Paper wallets are insecure and should not be used. Depending on how much you plan to gift I would look into getting an OpenDime. If you're giving a smaller amount then just generate a wallet, record the seed and give your niece the seed phrase after funding the wallet. She can then recover it on her own device to sweep to a new wallet.

You could send a physical gift like a ballet crypto wallet or opendime. I wrote some code that recovers the public key from a sealed opendime and makes other addresses including dogecoin https://github.com/timchurchard/opendime-utils

Get a non-custodial wallet: This is where you start to believe you really have Bitcoin, but it is still not perfect. A non-custodial wallet (like BlueWallet) is one of the slow types of Bitcoin wallets (on-chain) but this is where I think you, as a inquisitive mind, should start. Others will start with lightning wallets so they can buy beer right away. BlueWalllet has you create a "wallet" and gives you "seed words" to write down and keep safe. This is private. Do not take pictures of it, screenshots of it, and do not save it to a digital file. Paper is really easy and there's no risk of undiscovered malware being able to see what you write on paper. You'll very quickly learn the lingo: "wallet", "addresses", "utxo", etc. When you receive funds, the wallet will show you your balance like Coinbase does, but it will also show you a "transaction id". This, you can use to check that your transaction is real by checking a blockchain explorer like "https://mempool.space" or "https://bitcoinexplorer.org/". You are now able to check multiple sources, increasing your belief that the Bitcoin is real.

- Bitcoinexplorer.org https://github.com/janoside/btc-rpc-explorer (lang: nodejs, db: none) I would like to prioritize practical issues such as displaying fees and general ease of use for viewing transaction details, these are the topics of discussion. I am looking forward to your opinions.

I'm not aware of a desktop explorer, but it probably wouldn't be as advanced as something like https://github.com/janoside/btc-rpc-explorer

It depends what you're running. Raspiblitz, for example, allows you to use btc rpc explorer (https://github.com/janoside/btc-rpc-explorer) and mempool (https://github.com/mempool/mempool) quite easily.

BTC RPC Explorer v3.3.0 (Released: 7th December 2021) - https://github.com/janoside/btc-rpc-explorer/releases

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