{"id":30464,"date":"2012-02-29T02:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T02:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe7a90012697"},"modified":"2025-02-07T12:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:33:53","slug":"lightweight-bitcoin-clients-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/reviews\/lightweight-bitcoin-clients-wallets","title":{"rendered":"Lightweight Bitcoin Clients\/Wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/light.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lightweight bitcoin clients differ mainly in that the blockchain is not stored on your computer, so they rely on a server to receive and send transactions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advantages are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allows almost the same level of security as locally stored desktop wallets<\/li>\n<li>Work well in environments with a slow or limited internet connection, such as mobile phones and rural areas with dialup.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Disadvantages are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have to trust the server to be online reliably<\/li>\n<li>Have the privacy disadvantages of browser and online wallets<\/li>\n<li>No options available for iPhones, even rooted ones through Cydia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The main options for this type are Electrum for the desktop and Bitcoinspinner for mobile phones (Android only).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightweight bitcoin clients differ mainly in that the blockchain is not stored on your computer, so they rely on a server to receive and send transactions. Advantages are: Allows almost the same level of security as locally stored desktop wallets Work well in environments with a slow or limited internet connection, such as mobile phones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3567,"featured_media":30463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4379],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-30464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reviews","category-m2test","tag-wallets"],"author_data":{"id":3567,"name":"Mihai Alisie","nicename":"mihai-alisie","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f8bec2df44eb67cd298ba4d50443d719b7c335073c348fdccb7443b5dc06f510?s=96&d=robohash&r=g"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/light.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}