<p>Some obvious reasons:</p>

<ul>
<li>Deterministic wallet (only need to store the seed, bitcoind's wallet uses a random number per address).</li>
<li>Multisig support with lockboxes.</li>
<li>Paper backups with SecurePrint.</li>
<li>Fragmented backups (you need m of n pieces to get back your wallet)</li>
<li>Offline signing for additional security</li>
</ul>

<p>There's also a lot more features that are on the way that we'll be announcing (Disclosure: I work for Armory)</p>

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Jimmy Song
<p>What advantages does Armory have over Bitcoin-Qt? Just better multisig support? Armory runs <code>bitcoind</code>.</p>

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What advantages does Armory have over Bitcoin-Qt?
Geremia
# What advantages does Armory have over Bitcoin-Qt?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2016-01-05)

What advantages does Armory have over Bitcoin-Qt? Just better multisig support? Armory runs `bitcoind`.

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, armory


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2016-01-05. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

Some obvious reasons:

* Deterministic wallet (only need to store the seed, bitcoind's wallet uses a random number per address).
* Multisig support with lockboxes.
* Paper backups with SecurePrint.
* Fragmented backups (you need m of n pieces to get back your wallet)
* Offline signing for additional security

There's also a lot more features that are on the way that we'll be announcing (Disclosure: I work for Armory)


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