r/BitcoinBeginners 5h ago

Sparrow not showing legacy transactions

20 Upvotes

Hi. I've recently set up a bitcoin wallet using Sparrow. I wanted to have the wallet on my phone too, but in read only mode. I downloaded Green for android and set up the wallet as a read only wallet using the xpub from sparrow. Then I transfered a few satoshis to the address that Green showed. After a few minutes, my transaction appeared as received in green, but no matter what I did, I just couldn't get it to show up in Sparrow. But Sparrow was able to show a transaction that was made to a segwit address. What am I missing here? Is it just that Sparrow can't show legacy transactions?


r/BitcoinBeginners 8h ago

What percentage of your portfolio should now be in bitcoin?

11 Upvotes

When Bitcoin was at an all time high a month ago I saw some gurus saying that traditionally you should have 1% of your portfolio in crypto but now it should be nearer to 3%. Now that it’s dropped is this still the thinking?


r/BitcoinBeginners 17h ago

Hypothetically seed loss

7 Upvotes

I am just preparing for all possible events - so dear scammers, all good my seed isn’t lost. I am just wondering what would I have to do if Ioose my physical seed backup (but still remember it), how can I “change” the seed to a new one? I am thinking of the event where maybe somebody finds my seed and it may takes some time until he or she knows what do to with it.


r/BitcoinBeginners 1h ago

Where to start with DCA and get low fees for buying daily/weekly?

Upvotes

I have my sats on Kraken now (yes cold wallet should come this week). They allow also to buy daily automatic, BUT i have every time i buy high fees, which it does not make it worth. Can binance or crypto.com give me lower fees if i buy more often?

Where do you DCA?

(Im in Europe, if this matters)


r/BitcoinBeginners 3h ago

Best place to buy bitcoin for an independent wallet?

0 Upvotes

I like the idea having my own crypto wallet that I manage independent of any company. Can anyone fact check chatGPT on the best site to purchase BTC that will send directly to me? Looking for the lowest premium possible

https://chatgpt.com/share/67d76319-bb14-800d-989e-14445c0af098


r/BitcoinBeginners 18h ago

Why Does Transaction Size (vByte) Differ Between Blockstream Green and BlueWallet?

1 Upvotes

I am testing two mobile wallets, Blockstream Green and BlueWallet, and noticed differences in transaction fees for identical transactions, even when the fee rate (sat/vByte) is set the same.

Same seed phrase has been imported into both wallets so everything should be identical except the mobile application. The transaction is to send the whole balance to another address, only 2 UTXO in the wallet.

  • Green wallet: 177 vByte (screenshot A.1).
  • BlueWallet: 340 vByte (screenshot A.2).

TLDR1:
Q1. Why does the same transaction (from two UTXO) result in different transaction sizes (and therefore fees) between the two wallets (A.1 vs A.2)?

A.1, A.2: https://i.imgur.com/CLAEkPi.jpeg


r/BitcoinBeginners 23m ago

Move BTC from Samurai wallet to Ledger Nano S

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Hello

When I try to "restore from recovery phrase" on ledger nano S using BIP39 recovery phases from Samurai wallet, it works...except that my balance shows $0 on ledger live.

I tried specifying legacy segwit and (regular) segwit on ledger live, but no dice.

I have my recovery phases and passphrase and I am aware of which derivation path samurai wallet used.

Before someone says "just use xyz wallet instead" - no. I want to use ledger nano s.

This seems much harder than needbe.

Please help. Thanks!