THE PRODUCT · WHAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY DO

What can you do with Bad Wallet?

Everything you’d expect from a Bitcoin wallet — buy, hold, send, receive — plus a few things you wouldn’t. Here’s the whole toolkit, in plain English.

One app, self-custody the whole way: buy Bitcoin without an exchange, spin up hot wallets, link your cold storage, see everything in one place, send and receive with confidence, watch a calm live price, and ask an AI guide anything.

Buy Bitcoin, straight to your wallet

Buy Bitcoin in-app and it lands in a wallet only you control — no exchange parking your coins.

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.

Why it matters: The riskiest moment for a newcomer is the gap between buying Bitcoin and actually controlling it. Coins left on an exchange can be frozen, lost in a collapse, or stolen in a hack. Buying direct closes that gap completely.
Safety: Your coins are delivered to a wallet only you hold the keys to. We never take custody at any point in the buy.

Create a hot wallet in seconds

Spin up a self-custody wallet on your phone — no account, no email, no permission required.

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.

Why it matters: Self-custody has a reputation for being intimidating. It isn’t. Making a wallet should feel as easy as installing an app — and here it does, without handing over your identity to do it.
Safety: Keys are generated on your device and never sent to us. Your seed phrase is shown once, for you to back up — we never see it.

Bring your cold storage

Link a hardware signer and manage cold-stored Bitcoin beside everything else. You sign; we never see your keys.

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.

Why it matters: Cold storage is the gold standard for holding meaningful amounts — but it usually means clunky, separate software. Folding it into the same friendly app removes the excuse not to use it.
Safety: Hardware-wallet keys stay on the hardware. Bad Wallet prepares transactions for it to sign; it never handles or stores your cold keys.

All your wallets, one place

Hot, cold, watch-only — every wallet you own on one calm dashboard.

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.

Why it matters: Seeing everything in one place is what turns a pile of wallets into an understanding of your money. Clarity is its own kind of security — you can’t protect what you can’t see.
Safety: Watch-only and cold wallets appear without ever importing their private keys. Bad Wallet reads balances; it can’t move those funds.

Receive and send, without the fear

Move Bitcoin with plain-language confirmations: what moved, to whom, and what it cost — in sats.

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.

Why it matters: Fear of an irreversible mistake is the single biggest thing keeping people off self-custody. Clear confirmations and plain-English summaries turn “I hope this is right” into “I know this is right.”
Safety: Every send is confirmed on your device and signed with your keys. Nothing moves without you approving exactly what you see.

Live price, zero panic

A clean live BTC price and a real chart — the trend, without the finance-bro candle theatrics.

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.

Why it matters: Bitcoin’s price is volatile enough without an interface that treats every wiggle like an emergency. A calm view helps you think in years, not minutes — which is how self-custody is meant to work.
Safety: The price feed is read-only market data. It never touches your wallet, your keys, or your ability to spend.

Ask Bad Expert

An AI Bitcoin guide built into the app — ask anything in plain English, no jargon, no eye-rolling.

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? Bad Expert is the built-in AI guide you can ask, 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.

Why it matters: What actually keeps people off Bitcoin isn’t the technology — it’s not having anyone patient to ask. A guide that’s always there, and never makes you feel stupid, is how self-custody stops being scary.
Safety: Bad Expert explains things and answers questions. It’s a guide, not a signer — it can’t access your keys or move your Bitcoin.

Ready when you are.

That’s the whole toolkit — self-custody a first-timer can actually use. Get on the list for the private beta.

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