Own, control and understand bitcoin with sparrow wallet - Craig Raw

12 Feb • 57m

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Own, control and understand bitcoin with sparrow wallet. In todays episode I spoke to Craig Raw the sole developer and maintainer of Sparrow wallet.Sparrow is a Bitcoin wallet for those who value financial self sovereignty. Sparrow’s emphasis is on security, privacy and usability. Sparrow does not hide information from you - on the contrary it attempts to provide as much detail as possible about your transactions and UTXOs, but in a way that is manageable and usable. Craigs hope is that sparrow is as much a tool for education as it is a tool for interacting with the bitcoin network. Ive found this wallet really usable while still having all of the features you would expect from a modern Bitcoin wallet. Full support for single sig and multisig wallets on common script types A range of connection options: Public servers, Bitcoin Core and private Electrum servers Standards based including full PSBT support Support for all common hardware wallets in USB and airgapped modes Full coin and fee control with comprehensive coin selection Labeling of all transactions, inputs and outputs Lightweight and multi platform Send and receive to PayNyms, both directly (BIP47) and collaboratively Built in Tor Testnet, regtest and signet support Sparrow is unique in that it contains a fully featured transaction editor that also functions as a blockchain explorer. This feature not only allows editing of all of a transaction’s fields, also easy inspection of the transaction bytes before broadcasting. I asked Craig about some of the features in the new release v1.7.2 and we went into detail on unique visual fingerprints for a wallets now being displayed in the Settings tab and passphrase entry dialog. This makes it easy for more visual people like myself to quickly recognise colours and shapes rather than a string of letters and numbers. We also discussed BIP329 which defines a standard for importing and exporting wallet labels. I was happy to see Craig pushing this forward as its an issue I'm currently experiencing myself and I don’t think I'm alone. As other wallets implement this standard, it will become easier to migrate between different wallet implementations using seeds, output descriptors and label exports. It was a pleasure speaking to Craig and I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out and ask me. Craig contact details. twitter - @SparrowWallet twitter - @craigraw Website - https://sparrowwallet.com/ Contact me. twitter - @MaxBitbuybit twitter - @bitbuybitpod Website - https://ungovernablemisfits.com As always please feel free to reach out and ask me any questions. Today you can exchange $1 for 4572 Sats (Sale ends soon.) Thank you Foundation Devices for sponsoring the show. Use code BITBUYBIT at check out for $10 off your purchase Website - https://foundationdevices.com/

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@jon

21,000 sats

14 Feb

Hi.

@mrmr

20,999 sats

16 Feb

gidday mate

@jon

19 Feb

👋🏻

@bubba

10,000 sats

15 Feb

wish sparrow had a mobile version since i dont have a laptop and just a phone. but i can appreciare what craig has built. it seems to be the best in class. and FU @jon

@jon

19 Feb

Fucks appreciated sir 🫡

@apemithrandir

7,777 sats

13 Feb

sparrow wallet is my favourite wallet by far. craig is a hero.

@barnminer

5,000 sats

12 Feb

Sparrow wallet is top notch.

@baz

5,000 sats

19 Feb

great chat!

@mrmr

4,674 sats

13 Feb

BIP329 ... well needed, and who better than Craig Raw to get it done? Thanks max et al for another zero-noise episode.

@codyellingham

13 Feb

@mrmr what are your thoughts on BIP300 / drivechains / sidechains by the way?

@bon

4,567 sats

15 Feb

Mad respect and appreciation for Craig. Sparrow is leaps and bounds ahead of any other desktop wallet out there and it's a pure joy using it. Thanks for the update and having him on. I'm digging the new Artwork as well.

@spiralcrunch

4,444 sats

17 Feb

😁

@finch

4,200 sats

13 Feb

Sparrow Wallet is best in class! #ThereIsNoSecondBest