geewallet

Features geewallet

geewallet is a wallet that prioritises convenience & security over privacy.
Examples:- Convenience: it is a lightweight wallet (you dont need to download whole blockchains to use it, unlike with fullnode wallets).- Convenience over privacy (I): its a wallet that handles multiple cryptocurrencies, so its UX needs to be as generic as possible to accommodate them, therefore only contains minimal currency-specific features.
For example, given that the concept of "change-addresses" doesnt exist in the Ethereum world (a concept initially thought to help privacy in the bitcoin world, but which doesnt achieve much of it in the end), then it is not used by geewallet even when sending bitcoin, to avoid cluttering the UI/UX with currency-specific features/complexities.
We will still be investigating the support of more robust privacy features such as the ones provided by TumbleBit or ConfidentialTransactions.Convenience over privacy (II): servers from other wallets infrastructure is reused (e.g.
Electrums Stratum protocol), however TLS communication is still unsupported (this only hinders privacy but doesnt pose any security risk).- Security (I): geewallet is a desktop/mobile wallet, not an online/web wallet like others (e.g.
web wallets are easy targets: https://twitter.com/myetherwallet/status/988830652526092288 ).- Security (II): geewallet has cold-storage support (you can run it in off-line mode and import/export transactions in JSON files), but not hardware wallet support.
Remember, cold storage is not the same as hardware wallet.
geewallet is a software wallet, but which works in air-gapped devices (computers/smartphones) thanks to its cold-storage support, which means that its safer than hardware wallets (after all, bugs and security issues are constantly being found on hardware wallets, e.g.: https://saleemrashid.com/2018/03/20/breaking-ledger-security-model/).- Convenience (II): there are no pre-generated seeds, geewallet is a brainwallet that uses your passphrase as a seed phrase, so that you dont need to keep backups anymore (and if you have any doubt about the security of this, understand that a hacker will always want to try to solve the WarpWallet challenge rather than target you directly).