What You Can Do with MultiBit

The everyday workflows in MultiBit: setting up a wallet, receiving and sending Bitcoin, and following each payment until it confirms.

Create or restore a wallet

Setup takes a few minutes. The order matters: protect your recovery material before you receive any funds.

The password encrypts the wallet file stored on your computer. It is not sent anywhere and cannot be reset by anyone else.

These words can rebuild the wallet on another computer. Store them offline, away from the device you use daily.

MultiBit asks you to confirm the words, then connects to the network and catches up to the current block.

Open the Receive view to get an address and a QR code for the sender.

Add a note such as "invoice 214" so the payment is easy to identify later.

Copy the address or show the QR code. Compare the first and last characters if you paste it into a message.

The payment appears as pending within moments of broadcast, then moves to confirmed once it is in a block.

Every payment goes through a review screen before it is signed.

Paste the recipient address and enter an amount in BTC or your display currency.

A higher fee usually gets a payment into a block sooner. The review screen shows the fee in BTC and as a share of the total.

Enter your wallet password to sign. MultiBit then sends the transaction to its connected peers.

Broadcast but not yet included in a block. The amount is shown but should not be treated as final.

Included in a block. Each new block adds one confirmation.

Your notes are stored with the wallet on your computer and are never published to the network.

Find a payment by label, amount, or date.

Follow the setup, backup, and payment guides in order.