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I'm building an application on bitcoin and want to use testnet instead of using real bitcoins to do my test. I'm mainly using Electrum-3.1.3 to do sweeping of addresses. But how can I switch this to be on the testnet chain instead?

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  • I would also like to know how to get Electrum mobile on testnet.
    – B T
    Commented Aug 5, 2020 at 17:43

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Reset to default
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General answer is running: $ electrum --testnet

If you are using Mac OSX then open terminal an jump to: /Aplications/Electrum/Contents/OSX there you need to run: & ./Electrum --testnet

On newer Mac OS versions
/Applications/Electrum.app/Contents/MacOS/run_electrum --testnet

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    On my system dir is /Applications/Electrum.app/Contents/MacOS
    – Riccardo Casatta
    Commented Oct 28, 2020 at 9:38
  • and ./run_electrum --testnet
    – baloo
    Commented Nov 6, 2020 at 10:16
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Run Electrum with the --testnet startup option.

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    testnet is not working for linux environment
    – xds2000
    Commented Sep 25, 2018 at 8:44
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    and for linux? that doesnt exist
    – Tim Kretschmer
    Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 7:19
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If you install Electrum on Windows, you will have two programs you can start. One of them is called "Electrum Testnet".

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