On Thursday, September 28, 2017, 2:19:19 PM PDT, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:34:32 -0400 John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
I’ve been using electrum on android and Linux for the past 18 months or so, and can only second Juan’s recommendation - it’s worked quite well for me. There’s even a “bitcoin atm” near my house where you can deposit cash and specify a wallet address (or scan a qr code) - although I haven’t used the atm since prices got above 1k/btc, so it’s been a little while ;)
For completness' sake I guess we should mention that one has to be reasonaby sure that the machine running electrum (or other client) isn't 'compromised' / has some sort of coin stealing malware. Yes, I recall reading on a blog of this potential problem. Do ordinary anti-virus programs have the ability to detect such problems before they BECOME real problems? Jim Bell
Also, best practice is to have most of your funds in cold storage. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage