How to Choose Your Wallet — recommended wallets

Startima
3 min readOct 23, 2017

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Utilizing the Startima platform with different cryptocurrrency wallets: An advice: DO NOT SEND ETH from exchanges like Coinbase, Poloniex, Kraken, etc.

The Mist Wallet

In order to help you with contribution via Mist Wallet, we posted this tutorial. If you don’t have Mist, but you would like to use it, follow this steps to install Mist.

+ Solid and trustworthy wallet

— Not easy to install

Step 1. Open your Mist application. Click the “Send” tab on top panel

Step 2. Enter the address, that you took from Startima official website in field “TO”

Step 3. Choose the wallet, from which you would like to send funds

Step 4. Choose the amount of Ether you want to send

Step 5. Set up the Fee on the Fee bar. Try to avoid the “cheaper” end of the bar, because it might slow down the transaction

Step 6. Click “Send”. After that you will see the details of your transaction. Make sure everything is OK, enter transaction and click “Send” once again.

MyEtherWallet

Popular and trustworthy wallet. Very good for beginners. Use this tutorial to contribute with it. If you don’t have MyEtherWallet, use this step-by-step instruction, to get it.

+ Good balance of simplicity and security

— Limited Functionality

Step 1. Go to the official website. Click “Send Ether & Tokens”

Step 2. In the field “How would you like to access your wallet?” choose “Keystore File (UTC / JSON)”

Step 3. Select your wallet file, press “unlock” and login to your account

Step 4. Now enter the address you took from Startima official website

Step 5. Choose the amount of Ether you’d want to send, “gas limit” would be set automatically

Step 6. Click “Generate transaction” to complete the task.

Metamask

Simple to use wallet, that acts like Google Chrome Extension.

+ Easy to install

— Very poor functionality

Step 1. Click an icon of Metamask in your Google Chrome Browser

Step 2. Click “Send”Step 3. In the “Recipient Address” field enter address you took from official Startima website and the amount of Ether you’d want to send and click “Next”Step 4. Confirm and complete the task

Step 3. In the “Recipient Address” field enter address you took from official Startima website and the amount of Ether you’d want to send and click “Next”

Step 4. Confirm and complete the task

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