Basics_04 - Wallets & Transactions

Hot wallets, cold wallets, hardware wallets, custodial wallets, lightning wallets, holy crap! What does all of this mean and how do they relate to your keys and your bitcoin? That is what we are covering in today's episode, Bitcoin Basics episode 4, all about wallets and transactions. Here is a reference to all of the wallets I use most often and for you to explore when setting up your own. I will also have this available on bitcoinaudible.com so it is easy to find down the road. Wallets Guy uses… Mobile On-Chain Wallets: Green Wallet Blue Wallet Nunchuk Bitkit (careful, still in beta but one I'm excited about) Keeper Desktop Wallets: Green Wallet Lily Wallet Sparrow (can be more advanced, but a good wallet) Specter (need a node, we will cover this later in the Basics) Electrum (old school, but trusted) Hardware Wallets: Coldcard (long running, trusted, & versatile) Blockstream Jade Tapsigner (simple, card sized hardware wallet) Bitbox (clean, easy to use bitcoin wallet) Seedsigner (cool DIY hardware wallet, low cost) Keystone Trezor A great, essential piece for first getting into the space, Bitcoin First: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bbmhdkHH1vcM31uo5Mimd?si=515dc45d1ca544ec Don't forget to check out our amazing sponsors: • Dive into the Bitcoin only wallet, the cypherpunk calculator, with the NEW Coldcard Q1! A company that has built secure Bitcoin products for nearly a decade. Code BITCOINAUDIBLE gets 9% off the ColdCard! (https://guyswann.com/coldcard) • Gets sats back every time you dump fiat at a store, to pay your bills, everything in your fiat life pays you sats with the Fold Debit Card and FoldApp. 20,000 FREE SATS! at (https://guyswann.com/fold) • The best place to onboard a true Bitcoiner - Stack sats automatically, withdraw automatically, and learn or get help from the best team of Bitcoiners out there with Swan Bitcoin.