Bitcoin Core’s User Interface

Bitcoin Core has a built in wallet with graphical and command line/API modes. It can also simultaneously support multiple lightweight wallets with similar security and privacy to its built-in wallet.

Warning: you only get the security and privacy benefits in supported lightweight wallets if they make a secure and private connection to your Bitcoin Core every time you use them. This usually requires special configuration.

Bitcoin Core Wallet GUI (Graphical)

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See your current balance and recent transactions

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Easily choose between low fees and fast confirmation

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Enhance privacy or save money by choosing your inputs

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Generate QR codes to receive payment

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Easily track who paid you

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Use Tor or a proxy for privacy

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Track how much bandwidth you use

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Track bitcoins stored safely offline

Bitcoin Core Wallet RPC/REST (CLI)

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Get a new address for receiving payment

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Instantly see your available Bitcoin balance

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Enhance privacy or save money by choosing your inputs

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See what received transactions you can spend

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Create and send raw transactions

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Be notified of new blocks and transactions

Learn more: documentation for the Bitcoin Core APIs

Lightweight Wallets Using Bitcoin Core

Lightweight wallets usually connect to several random full nodes (like Bitcoin Core) to send and receive all of their data. In the process they leak private data and make themselves more vulnerable to attacks.

But it’s also possible to connect certain lightweight wallets solely to your own Bitcoin Core full node, called a trusted peer. If you do this with a secure and private connection every time you use that lightweight wallet, you’ll get most of the security and privacy benefits of a full node as well as help protect decentralization.