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safe offline electrum wallet
There is a good tutorial for setting up a safe offline wallet with a regular bitcoin wallet here.
If I want to set up a safe deterministic offline wallet (i.e. Electrum). What would be the right ...
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Can I use the official wallet to recover bitcoins sent to an alternative wallet?
I like alternative wallets like Armory and Electrum because they offer more features, some of which are fundamental for security and convenience. But I'm a bit worried about them not being ...
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What are some compelling reasons to use Electrum?
I currently use Bitcoin-qt on OSX and I'm considering switching to Electrum.
What are the advantages and disadvantages to using Electrum over another Bitcoin client?
My two major concerns are ...
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Electrum “Pending” what does it mean
My balance in Electrum shows "pending." What does pending mean?
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How to export an encrypted non-seedless electrum wallet into bitcoin-qt?
How to export an encrypted non-seedless electrum wallet into bitcoin-qt?
Is it even possible?
Cheers
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Why does electrum need connection to server when recovering a wallet from a seed?
Why does electrum client need connection to server when recovering a wallet from a seed? Isn't the generation of private keys done locally?
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Are the Thin clients Electrum and Multibit safe and secure?
How do Electrum and Multibit compare for being safe and secure. Both are open source. Are there any advantages, security wise, to use one or the other?
I'm new to bitcoin and the only reason for ...
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electrum windows client, standalone executable versus windows installer
From the download page, http://electrum.org/download.html
What is the difference between the two windows versions? standalone executable and the windows installer version?
What are the advantages ...
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What is the difference between a electrum server type F and P
As I am trying my first steps with Bitcoin, I ask you to ignore my potential ignorance.
With Electrum I have to choose a server of which there seem to be F and P type servers. What is their ...
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How to update balance of imported address in electrum
Imported an address into electrum, but the balance of the address shows up as zero.
Checked the address on http://blockexplorer.com and it's not zero.
The address was imported from bitcoinqt when ...
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Why does electrum show negative account balance, “(internal)” deductions, and altering the listing of transaction so often?
I have used Electrum for sometime now and have some questions. It seems to show an odd ledger of transactions sometimes, just a huge list that keep reducing then after a while it goes back to what I ...
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Best client for future BIP32 wallets
Which client is most likely to provide a smooth transition to BIP32 (without the need to recreate a completely new wallet), Armory or Electrum ?
The Armory dev is saying that he will deprecate his ...
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Electrum Error Message “22”
When I try to send BTC from my Electrum wallet address to one of my unused addresses in Electrum, just as a test, it comes up with an error message (U'message':u'TX rejected, U'code':-22).
I'm using ...
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What are the security considerations for hosting *your own* Electrum server?
Lets say I wanted to use an electrum client but I'm so paranoid and also can't or won't read and understand python code so that I only trust my own server.
What security considerations should I have ...
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What are the security implications of not hosting your own Electrum server?
Bitcoin-Qt is getting require large and is taking up over 10% of the space on my little laptop. Looking for an alternative, I saw Electrum. I downloaded the app and I'm able to connect to a server, ...
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How can I import wallet.dat from offical Bitcoin client into Electrum? [duplicate]
How can I import wallet.dat from official BitCoin client into Electrum?
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DDOS Safety Electrum?
How hard would it be to successfully attack (all) the Electrum backend servers? I think there is about a handful of them.
I would consider an attack successful that stops Electrum from working for a ...
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How does the Electrum wallet encryption work?
Nube bitcoin question... I created an electrum wallet, and can find it under appdata on my windows machine. When creating it I set up a pass phrase and password. I sent a small transaction into one ...
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Electrum exchange rates. Where do they come from and why are they incorrect?
On the simple view on the Electrum client, the value of the bitcoins is displayed in USD, GBP and EUR (changeable by clicking on it).
Currently by clicking through, I am seeing exchange rates:
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