sparrow
Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source. (by sparrowwallet)
electrs
An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust (by romanz)
| sparrow | electrs | |
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| 75 | 28 | |
| 1,160 | 981 | |
| 4.7% | - | |
| 9.5 | 8.4 | |
| 3 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Java | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
sparrow
Posts with mentions or reviews of sparrow.
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
- Sparrow Wallet 1.7.7
- Bitcoin core wallet
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Desktop wallet with specific feature? (double spend)
I don't now if it will help you, but the latest SparrowWallet release lists
- Dedicated mobile bitcoin wallet with hardware support
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Is bluewallet the way to go here?
Exactly this. Blockstream Jade hardware wallet used with Sparrow wallet on a laptop with linux, to make transactions. Then Bluewallet for a watch-only wallet on your phone device.
- Cold storage with KYC BTC
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Have I lost my Bitcoin?
Its just well established, open source, well featured. While it is a wallet, here it just plays the role of interface. Yes, there are other apps for this, most notably Sparrow.
- Bitcoin beginner looking for the most secure cold storage wallet.
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Open source wallets
Sparrow has the best UI/UX in my experience, and it's completely open sourced. https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow
electrs
Posts with mentions or reviews of electrs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.
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Newcommer: I'd just like to make sure I got this right...
There seems to be a Rust implementation of the server (electrs via https://github.com/romanz/electrs ). It was recommended as part of a Medium article on how to set up an Electrum server. So far it seems fine - but, what are your inputs on it?
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Can't get addresses to load in mempool
romanz/electrs. This is a common choice for its low resource requirements, and most full-node distros use it. But while this implementation works great for basic queries, it will struggle with heavier ones (e.g. looking up addresses with many transactions)—especially when running on low-power hardware like a Raspberry Pi.
- How Wallet Mobile Softwares deal with Wallet Balance and Transactions history?
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📑 MiniBolt resources 📚 List of the MiniBolt core/bonus guides + latest versions
Electrs v0.9.10 (Released: 3st November 2022) - https://github.com/romanz/electrs/releases
- Electrum RS Not working?
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Wasabi vs Electrum
To gain some privacy by using Electrum you should set up Tor on Network preferences or by installing your own Electrum server via Electrum Personal Server, ElectrumX or Electrs.
- "majority of the nodes" in BTC Lightning Network currently down due to bug
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Question regarding setting up electrum hardware wallet.
Electrum can be connected to you full node if you also run this: https://github.com/romanz/electrs
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Full node still impossible ? Umbrel ? Mynode ?
Electrs: https://github.com/romanz/electrs (Instead of electrs you can also use "Electrum personal server" to connect Bitcoin core to Electrum).
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⚡ Raspibolt Monthly Rundown 🌕 May 16th, 2022 - Guide & software updates, new Github pull requests & issues and other news
LND v0.14.3 - Release page - Upgrade guide This release contains only a series of bug fixes, and doesn't introduce any backwards compatible changes (database migrations, etc) from the prior version. Notable fixes in this release include: a fix to an invoice registry related deadlock, a fix for an edge case when running the remote signer operating mode, and a fix to ensure that 3rd parties sweeping an anchor UTXO doesn't lead to the wallet having a fragmented internal UTXO state, and a fix for a payment state inconsistency (a payment looks like it was stuck though no HTLCs exist).Full release notes.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sparrow and electrs you can also consider the following projects:
specter-desktop - A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets
electrum-personal-server - Maximally lightweight electrum server for a single user
electrum - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
joinmarket-clientserver - Bitcoin CoinJoin implementation with incentive structure to convince people to take part
electrumx - Alternative implementation of spesmilo/electrum-server
BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android. Built with React Native
LndHub - Wrapper for Lightning Network Daemon. It provides separate accounts for end-users
firmware - ❄️ Firmware and simulator for Coldcard Hardware Wallet
raspibolt - RaspiBolt v3: Bitcoin & Lightning full node on a Raspberry Pi
umbrel - A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 5, any Ubuntu/Debian system, or a VPS.
electrumx - Alternative implementation of spesmilo/electrum-server