Freewallet.io User Manual
Freewallet.io User Manual
  • Getting Started
    • What is Freewallet?
    • What are the features of Freewallet?
    • Where can I access Freewallet?
    • Where can I access previous versions of Freewallet?
    • What is Tokenscan.io?
    • Why do I need small amounts of Bitcoin to do things in Freewallet?
    • What BTC fee should I use?
    • What is the Automatic Donation System? How do I turn it off?
    • What is an Asset/Token/NFT? How can I store them?
    • I want to trade a certain Asset, is it legitimate?
    • How to find the License Agreement
    • What else do I need to know?
  • Exploring Balances, History, Exchange and Dispensers
    • Address Balances
    • Address History
    • Viewing Tokens
    • Exploring Token Information and Enhanced Asset Information
    • Understanding Dispenser Markets
    • Buying XCP and User Created Tokens from a Dispenser
    • The Decentralized Counterparty Exchange (DEx)
    • Understanding Exchange Pairs
    • Buying and Selling XCP and Tokens on the DEx
    • Understanding BTCpay and BTC/TOKEN on the DEx
  • Freewallet Functions
    • Creating a Wallet
    • Locking and Unlocking Your Freewallet
    • Viewing, Creating and Importing Addresses
    • Show a QR Code for your Address
    • Sending and Receiving BTC
    • Sending / Receiving XCP and User Created Tokens
    • Displaying the Seed Phrase and Private Key of your Address(s)
    • Using the Multi Send function
    • Create a Counterparty Token (NFTs and FTs)
    • How to Change Token Properties
    • Changing the Token Description
    • Issuing more Token Units
    • Resetting Your Token Issuance
    • Locking Your Token Issuance
    • Transfer Token Ownership
    • Destroying Tokens
    • Paying Dividends to Token Holders
    • Voting with Tokens
    • Broadcast information on the Bitcoin blockchain
    • Signing a Message Using Freewallet
    • Signing a Transaction Using Freewallet
    • Using the Sweep Function
    • Setting up a Dispenser
    • Closing a Dispenser
    • Cancelling Exchange Orders
    • Starting an Exchange Pair that has no orders up yet on the DEx
    • Minting Open Fairmints
  • Common Questions Using Freewallet (FAQ)
    • What if you make a mistake?
    • Where can I see my current version?
    • How do I check my Freewallet Server settings?
    • How do I use the Debug function on Freewallet?
    • Can I use the Counterparty/Bitcoin Testnet in Freewallet?
    • Can I burn BTC for XCP?
    • What’s a Stamp?
    • What’s an Ordinal?
    • If Tokenscan is down for maintenance, can I still access my funds?
    • Why is there more than one input on my BTC transactions?
    • Does Freewallet support two-factor authentication?
    • Can you lock a Token description?
    • Can I run my own Counterparty server?
    • How do I use Freewallet to mint an Emblem Curated Vault?
    • How do you create a Burn Address for use on Counterparty?
  • Troubleshooting / Issues
    • I sent BTC (or a Token) to Freewallet, why doesn't it show up?
    • Why can't I see my assets I own or created with 0 issuance?
    • "Error While Trying to Broadcast Transaction"
    • "Failure to send not enough BTC in wallet"
    • My Freewallet Exchange/Dispenser tab is resetting the data when I try to sort by BTC Price?
    • "Public key was neither provided nor published in blockchain."
    • I logged in and see none of my assets but I see them on tokenscan!
    • Help! I used too small of a fee and my transaction is not confirming!
    • I sent/dispensed an XCP asset to a Wrapped Segwit Address (address beginning with "3")
    • I sent/dispensed an XCP asset to a Taproot Address (an address that starts with "bc1p")
    • I updated Freewallet and can only see my first 20 addresses! How can I get them back?
    • My second transaction on an MPMA (Multi-send) is not getting confirmed and giving me an error
    • Freewallet gave me a TX link but Tokenscan says "Transaction not found on tokenscan"
    • Error composing dividend transaction via API: ['zero dividend']
    • My MacOS/Windows is saying Freewallet is not verified by the app store. What should I do?
    • Counterparty API Communication Error!
    • What is a Counterparty API Error?
    • Stuck on "Checking Data Encoding Fees"
    • Constructed transaction does not parse correctly
    • My transaction is too low of an "Effective Fee Rate"
    • Error Composing Dispenser TX - Balance History
    • I entered my created password and stuck on "You will need to unlock..."
  • Getting Support
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NextWhat is Freewallet?

Last updated 20 days ago

is an open-source wallet for Bitcoin and Counterparty. It uses Legacy and Segwit Bitcoin addresses, and lets you store Bitcoin, XCP, and user created tokens .

What makes Freewallet different from many other wallets, is that the only possible way to access the wallet you create is by having access to the Bitcoin wallet 12-word passphrase or an address specific private key. In Freewallet, none of your private information ever leaves your PC.

For extra security, Freewallet also supports watch-only addresses, offline message signing and hardware wallet integration. The only official site for Freewallet is

Keep in mind this Gitbook User Manual only explains the functions of the Desktop version (2.0.3).

Take note this video goes over Freewallet Mobile version as well as the Desktop version.

The only official Github for Freewallet (Mobile and Desktop) .

Freewallet is developed by (Jdog), who was a significant historical Counterparty Developer as well as an active developer in the community to this day.

This User Manual was written by with the help of and the Counterparty Community including , , , B0bSmith, , and many other amazing and helpful people.

We have also decided to include the by RobotLoveCoffee and a few by as well in this User Manual.

If you would like a quick video overview of the different wallets you can use side by side with Freewallet and their functions, please check out by RobotLoveCoffee.

If you have any questions or would like to submit feedback on how to make this guide better please reach out in the or post your ideas, feedback and issues on the . The coding, troubleshooting, documentation, issues, discussions and general help that goes into making and maintaining this wallet is entirely supported by volunteer efforts from the community mentioned above and relies on donations only.

is linked here
Jeremy Johnson
davesta
Jdog
RobotLoveCoffee
Damian
Porkchop
ZeroG
Subterranean
many helpful videos
RARE PEPES DOT COM
this introductory explanation
Official Freewallet Telegram
Freewallet Github
Freewallet
along with many other features
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