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Getting a BRC-100 wallet

Which wallet to get, and what to save so you never lose your money.

I’ve chosen BRC-100 wallets for everything I build, and here’s why. They let you pay someone directly on BSV, person to person, the way you’d hand over cash, except it works online. There’s no bank or card company in the middle, so small payments work: a few cents for one article, a dollar for a reading. The same wallet signs you in to sites without a password, and it works across every app that supports it. The catch is the same as cash: it’s yours, so you look after it. That’s what the rest of this page is for.

Which one to get

These are young tools and they have rough edges.

Save your recovery key before you do anything else

When you set up your wallet, it gives you a recovery key. Write it on paper and keep it somewhere safe. Don’t screenshot it, don’t email it, and don’t share it with anyone, including me. If you lose your device and don’t have it, your money is gone, and nobody can get it back for you. That’s what it means to hold your own money.

Your first payment

  1. New wallets usually start with a small welcome gift of sats, which is enough for the payment below. To add more, buy a few dollars of BSV and send it to your wallet’s receive address.
  2. Go to Where’s the BEEF and make the 100-sat “try it” payment. It’s a fraction of a cent, and the page will show you your own payment taken apart.
  3. After you approve, the page shows “Bob accepted your 100 sats” with a link to your transaction, then a short checklist, each item ticked as it passes: your signature and amounts check out, your receipts match Bob’s block summaries, and whether the network has seen it yet.

Not ready for this?

Almost everything here that takes sats also has a card option. You can pay that way and come back to this later.

Stuck on a step? Ask me, and I’ll help.