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. Also, best practice is to have most of your funds in cold storage. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage
I have decided that at least for a few months, placing this on Coinbase is a reasonable compromise. I am not aware of of an impending liquidity problem with Coinbase. There are other considerations.
I don't know about coinbase's liquidity, but it is a fact that they close accounts whenever they feel like it. But maybe they won't close yours since spying on you is valuable to them.
Anyway, best of luck!
Jim Bell