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Many people on the Steem network are acquiring larger and larger quantities of STEEM / STEEM Power / Steem Dollars, yet we all still have to rely on withdrawing assets to exchanges  via an exposed web interface at steemit.com. This is a recipe for disaster! One hack of the website server is all it takes to capture ACTIVE / OWNER keys being used to sign in for withdrawals.

A wallet interface you can install behind a firewall on your home PC (like Bitcoin Core / Ethereum Mist) would greatly reduce victim numbers if a major server breach happens. You could then just login to steemit.com with your POSTING key (which only lets you vote and post articles / responses) and save using your ACTIVE key for the wallet on your PC. I realize this is not for newbies, but we have a lot of power users here...and newbies could get the hang of it after a few days if they really wanted to learn how it works, and securely withdrawal their $$$.

I do realize we already have steemd. I've tried for days to get a stable steemd command-line interface setup, and I have been doing command line for over a decade. At least let a node connect and be synced even if I'm not a witness or a miner, right? I got it to sync initially, but now it refuses even with a hole punched through my firewall for the p2p connection and tons of seed nodes loading properly in my config. Honestly it really sucks hard having to use a centralized web interface to transfer my $$$.

EDIT: Just realized even newbies could use a standalone wallet too, IF a light client was created. I'm sure @dan @ned and the gang have higher priorities now, but it's a good idea if ever it was feasible to prioritize. Maybe dev bounties like bitshares has might help? I don't know.