What can you do with Bad Wallet?

Most people’s first bitcoin is bought on an exchange, and then it just… sits there, in the exchange’s custody, until you remember to move it (or don’t, and learn the hard way). Bad Wallet skips that step entirely. You buy Bitcoin inside the app and it’s delivered straight to a wallet whose keys live on your device.

No exchange account to open, no withdrawal to schedule, no “we’re holding your coins for your safety.” You buy, and it’s yours: real self-custody from the very first sat.

A hot wallet is one that lives on your phone, ready to send and receive. In Bad Wallet you create one in seconds: no sign-up form, no email, no ID, no waiting for approval. The app generates your keys on-device and hands you a seed phrase to back them up.

That’s the whole ceremony. You’re not opening an account with us. There is no account. You’re creating a wallet that belongs to you and answers to no one else.

Serious about security? Cold storage keeps your keys on a dedicated hardware device: offline and out of reach of internet threats. Bad Wallet lets you link that hardware signer and watch, receive, and prepare transactions right alongside your everyday wallets.

When it’s time to spend, the transaction is signed on your hardware device. The private keys never touch your phone, and never touch us. You get one clean view of your cold storage without giving up what makes it cold.

Most people don’t have one wallet; they have a few. A hot wallet for spending, cold storage for savings, maybe a watch-only address they keep an eye on. Normally that means juggling apps and doing mental math to know what you actually hold.

Bad Wallet puts them all on one dashboard. Every wallet, every balance, one running total: hot, cold, and watch-only side by side, in sats or your local currency. No spreadsheet, no guessing.

Sending Bitcoin for the first time is nerve-wracking: one wrong character and it feels like your money’s gone forever. Bad Wallet takes the fear out of it. Scan a QR or paste an address, enter an amount in sats, and the app tells you in plain language exactly what’s about to happen before you confirm.

Receiving is just as simple: share your address or a QR code and watch the incoming payment confirm. Every transaction is explained: no cryptic hex, no wondering what a fee actually bought you.

You want to know what your Bitcoin is worth without being pulled into a trading terminal. Bad Wallet shows a live price and a clean line: the number, the trend, and that’s it. No blood-red candles, no leverage ads, no dopamine slot machine.

Your balances show in sats and convert to your local currency at the live rate, so “how much do I have?” is always a glance away. Calm, not panic-inducing.

Everyone has Bitcoin questions they’re a little embarrassed to ask. What’s a sat? Why is this fee so high? Is this address safe to send to? The AI guide is built right in: ask it, in plain English, any time, and it answers without the condescension.

It’s the same teaching voice as the Learning Center, on demand and in context. Confused mid-transaction? Tap and ask. No question is too basic, and there’s no finance-bro waiting to make you feel dumb for asking.