sparrow
Desktop Bitcoin Wallet focused on security and privacy. Free and open source. (by sparrowwallet)
electrum
Electrum Bitcoin Wallet (by spesmilo)
| sparrow | electrum | |
|---|---|---|
| 75 | 602 | |
| 1,151 | 7,107 | |
| 3.9% | 1.0% | |
| 9.5 | 9.9 | |
| 6 days ago | about 21 hours ago | |
| Java | Python | |
| 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
electrum
Posts with mentions or reviews of electrum.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-15.
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Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
Yes, fantastic work. Downside is that snapshot.debian.org is extremely slow, times out / errors out regularly - very annoying. See also e.g. https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/8496 for complaints (but it's pretty apparent once you integrate this in your builds).
- Safe 3 and compatibility with Bitcoin wallets, sparrow, electrum and others
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Noob question, laugh at will
I have been looking at exchanges and different wallet options but I am 99% sure its from electrum.org
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Help wanted in verifying the Electrum signatures on Ubuntu
gpg: Good signature from "Thomas Voegtlin (https://electrum.org) <[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])>" [unknown]
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Please can someone help me? I am new to Bitcoin but I'm not sure what Obama or Sonic have to do with it?
https://electrum.org - Solid choice, Open Source and Non-Custodial, one of the oldest and most trusted Bitcoin Wallets.
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1000 btc wallets adresses
Hello, i have question, When i download wallet from electrum.org, and have 1 btc wallet adress. Can i made like 1000 btc wallet adress now ? Best regards
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Failing to "gpg --verify" on linux
I am following the Linux instructions from electrum.org, I'm using Ubuntu (fist timer, know zero to nothing about coding) and ChatGPT to help me write the code.
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How to import Bitcoin Address as a watch only
Electrum (https://electrum.org) can do that. Under "View" enable the tab "Coins" and then right click on the UTXO you're interested in, "Copy" > "Long Output point".
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NEWB ⚠️ I have a small amount of bitcoin stored in cash app. is there any pros to storing it elsewhere?
I use electrum.org
- Lost Bitcoin on Lightning Trampoline Channel
What are some alternatives?
When comparing sparrow and electrum you can also consider the following projects:
specter-desktop - A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets
BlueWallet - Bitcoin wallet for iOS & Android. Built with React Native
joinmarket-clientserver - Bitcoin CoinJoin implementation with incentive structure to convince people to take part
monero-gui - Monero: the secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency
firmware - ❄️ Firmware and simulator for Coldcard Hardware Wallet
bip39 - A web tool for converting BIP39 mnemonic codes
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.
trezor-suite - :candy: Trezor Suite Monorepo
esplora - Explorer for Bitcoin and Liquid
phoenix - Phoenix is a self-custodial Bitcoin wallet using Lightning to send/receive payments.