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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: What type of wallet do you use?
by
TheAlgorithm
on 15/03/2017, 16:28:52 UTC
Quite surprised to see the votes so far, web wallet leading with 55%, I thought PC wallets would be on top due to security reasons. I had a perspective that web wallets are not as secure as PC wallets.
I use a lightweight PC wallet.
You're right that web wallets are not as secure, but web wallets tend to be very user-friendly and easy for people to use if they're not very technical.  When storing a small amount of BTC, web wallets are perfectly fine.  There's also always the threat of malware infection, which would be likely to get to your PC wallet well before your web wallet if you were infected.  Hardware wallets, however, are pretty much immune.