So I got some Zen some time ago. Recently I realized that probably it’d be good to hodl it on the Zen Wallet, so I went to the Horizen website, clicked on the “wallets” tab, ready to download…
…and I saw this:
Probably for some of you there is no confusion here. This article is for those, who can’t tell at first sight which one of these wallets they want.
So, I thought that after doing my homework (means quick google search) I’ll know exactly what are the differences between all those. I started simply: horizen wallets difference. It gave me a few articles about crypto wallets generally. So I checked some other phrases and lemme tell you – nah, it’s hard to find out there anything like “what horizen wallet I should download”.
Thus, there you go, a quick summary what I found out about them:
- software wallets:
- Sphere by Horizen: a desktop wallet. After installing you got your seed phrase so if you need to change your device, you’ll have to download and sign up one more time (creating a new account), and you enter to your wallet by seed phrase.
- Swing Wallet: so, as we can read on GitHub: “This wallet is targeted at advanced users who understand the implications of running a full Zen node on the local machine, maintaining a full local copy of the blockchain, maintaining and backing up the Zen nodes's wallet.dat file etc! The wallet is not suitable for novice crypto-currency users!”. That was all I need to know, really. Definitely not there yet. (So if you’re interested please find a link attached below that hopefully will help you with your research).
- Horizen Core: it turned out to be the most mysterious one. What you can notice at once is that its type includes “command line” (as the only one). Since it was the only hint I got about this wallet, I followed the track and learned that ”it was created for developers by developers and is directed towards the miner community”.
- Arizen: they say it’s lite, fast, and simple. Arizen uses a private and a public key pairs. It lets you backup addresses using private keys. Also, I found some info that you could merge or split two Arizen wallets. Interesting option.
- other:
5. MyZenWallet: an online based wallet. You are still responsible for keeping your own keys safe, no software involved.
6. Paper Wallet: not software, not hardware, not even in the cloud. What’s that? It’s generated key that you can keep on paper or in the file.
I went for Sphere. And you, which one do you use and why?
*The information provided on this article is not legal advice; instead, all content and materials available are for general informational purposes only.
Also, if you still don't use Horizen faucet, feel free to join by this link:
https://getzen.cash/auth/register?ref=328988
Thank you!
