Questions tagged [electrum]
Electrum is a lightweight Bitcoin client written in Python
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Full explanation of what Electrum Server / Electrs does for data availability?
I am working on an on-chain data model in a corporate data warehouse setting. All data must live on an internal system where it can be easily joined to other datasources, and support a variety of ...
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Issues Installing Electrum Personal Server with Sparrow and Bitcoin Core
I'm trying to set up Electrum Personal Server (EPS) to work with Sparrow Wallet and Bitcoin Core. I've followed the standard procedures for the setup, but I've run into some issues.
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Is it possible to import a `wallet.dat` in Electrum?
I ran into an error when trying to import a wallet.dat into Electrum. I run Kali Linux.
Here is a screenshot of the error i get.
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How do I move (sweep, export) my private keys from my Electrum standard wallet to a new HD wallet using Electrum?
My present wallet which I have been using to accumulate BTC (50+ utxos) is a Electrum Standard, script type is p2pkh, with seed available and the keystore type is bip32. I assume that I should now ...
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Does electrum gives wallet.bin file or if it didn’t then how can I access wallet.bin file?
I have one electrum file which extension is .bin and I know the passphrase too but when I open that to electrum it don’t accept my passphrase but passphrase is correct 100% how I can excess that .bin ...
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Is there any HW wallet that works with Electrum without the need for installing anything?
Ledger Nano S Plus needs to you download Ledger Live and install the Bitcoin application in order to be able to open it with Electrum.
Is there any HW wallet that can be opened with Electrum directly, ...
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What is the Electrum seed "hash"?
When creating a new wallet, Electrum generates a seed which is a bunch of human-readable words. However, in the wallet file, the seed is like a 129-length string, it looks like a hash.
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Why emitter and receptor see different information about the same transaction in Electrum?
I have made a transfer from one Electrum wallet to another one. When I inspect this transaction from the emitter wallet and from the receiver wallet, I see different that. In particular, the input ...
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In which format (format, not cypher algo.) does Electrum encrypt its files?
Electrum wallet encrypts its files using the AES-256-CBC algorithm, but in which format does it encrypt files? (I mean, what headers, vectors, checksums etc. it adds and where?)
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Adding a legacy address to an existing Electrum wallet
Using ledger nano s I created several addresses - native segwit, taproot, legacy, etc.
I sent to one of them a small amount and it shows up.
I later re-created the wallet using the BIP39 phrase in ...
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What wallet size difference to expect between Bitcoin Core (binary) and Electrum (json) wallet files?
Imagine a relatively big wallet with tens of thousands of addresses and 3x transactions.
Now, let's say I restore such a wallet and do full re-scan in two applications - in Bitcoin Core and in ...
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How can one query the mempool of an Electrum server?
How does one go about querying a public Electrum server’s mempool? Not just for a address, but the entire mempool.
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Electrum load_wallet through json-rpcs does not accept "wallet" parameter
When calling load_wallet through json-rpc, using "wallet" param with a path to the wallet throws an error:
Commands.load_wallet() got an unexpected keyword argument 'wallet'
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In electrum, how do I set --testnet by default via setconfig?
As part of a Docker container, I am pre-configuring the Electrum daemon with using setconfig in offline mode.
How do I set --testnet by default as a configuration?
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How do I get back into my bitcoin core wallet JSON format no data file
I had 2 wallets long time ago mined on bitcoin core can’t remember JSON that well or what my wallet descriptors was. I did use bip 39 but not giving me my addresses back on electrum wallet please help ...
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Electrum Addresses for Customer Rewards Program
We are a tour company, I want to create a simple BTC rewards program for our travellers. Buy a tour from us and receive $20 BTC. Customer unlikely to have a wallet to begin with thus we need to hold ...
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Can any row of Electrum be my Bitcoin Wallet address
I just installed Electrum 4.3.4
Can any row of there, e.g. the one pointed out by the red rectangle be my Bitcoin Wallet address?
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How to resolve error when trying to sign and broadcast PSBT transaction via electrum - (Witness program hash mismatch code -26)?
I'm trying to generate a 2-of-2 multisig transaction as a PSBT so that both parties can easily sign their transaction. I'm doing this all on btc testnet as a p2sh p2wsh transaction
When initially ...
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How install electrum for other users on Windows?
I installes electrum on admin usage.
For security reasons I do not want to use admin account to use the wallet (the computer has no other use). I want to use normal account.
So I created another ...
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Electrum private key sweep
I'm trying to sweep private keys in Electrum but it asks to input: p2pkh:, p2wpkh: or p2wpkh-p2sh before the keys based on the address. I only have the keys but no address, how can I proceed with this ...
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What does the electrum wallet file contains?
I have been using electrum wallet and I heard that there exist a wallet file... but what does exactly contains? the private keys?
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Mempool docker unable to connect to electrum server
I'm having a problem with "connecting" my mempool.space to electrumX server.
My bitcoin core is working fine, electrumX server is fine as well and up to chaintip. I've installed docker and ...
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Bitcoin Core shows addresses that Electrum says don't belong to my wallet (imported MPK via EPS). What is going on?
I got a full node (pruned) up and running with Bitcoin Core via Tor. I installed Electrum Personal Server (EPS) and connected my hardware wallet with Electrum via Tor. I generated a watch-only wallet ...
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Why do we need electrs or electrumx alongside bitcoin-core?
I'm running a full bitcoin node. No pruning. Two primary use cases:
Parse the most recent block and all the transactions in it
Fetch any given address balance
Both these can be achieved by just the ...
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Configuring electrum wallet with command line only
I successfully installed electrum on an ubuntu server using the first ref from google search. But how I can configure it without GUI I didn't find.
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Verify Electrum wallet
How can I verify Electrum wallet file without password that it is a valid wallet file?
Is all the data inside encrypted or only part of it?
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Import the seed phrases generated in Electrum
To which wallets can I import the seed phrases generated in Electrum?
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Set Custom Transaction Fee To Send BTC In Electrum Json RPC
Please help me!
Now I'm trying to set custom fee to speed up my bitcoin transaction.
But I don't know how to do it.
Please help me!
Thanks
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How to get information from electrum wallet?
I have my wallet file and it is encrypted with a password.
How to decrypt wallet file using code?
Encryption seems similar to Fernet.
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importing WIF addresses into electrum creates new wallet instead of sweeping
I'm trying to use my WIF private key in electrum, tried sweeping and importing.
When importing, the addresses are totally different from my public addresses, and when sweeping I get the following ...
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Can Electrum only import private keys of P2PKH addresses?
Can Electrum only import private keys of P2PKH addresses (e.g., "17VZNX1SN5NtKa8UQFxwQbFeFc3iqRYhem")?
Whenever I import private keys of P2SH addresses ("...
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Open channel (LN) in Electrum testnet is not accessible?
I use Electrum wallet (version 4.3.2) on tesnet (apple desktop).
The testnet balance is 0.02 tBTC.
Under the 'Channels' tab, the option 'Open Channel' is there
but it is not clickable.
Is LN testnet ...
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Create electrum server with bitcoin core
I installed bitcoin core pruned node today on my laptop. I want to connect my blue wallet to my bitcoin node I created with bitcoin core. I read somewhere that for it to happen I need to have electrum ...
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How do you import an air-gapped created multisig wallet from Coldcard to Electrum?
I went through the process of creating a 3/5 multisig with coldcard, air gapped. I generated an electrum wallet file, but now I'm struggling to figure out how I use electrum to import the multisig ...
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What should I do to move Electrum wallet from one computer to another (both are MacOS)
I have an old mac that I want to sell.
There are about 0.0001 BTC in the Electrum wallet on the mac. Though it's not some big money I still want to move it to my new mac.
I also have an Electrum on ...
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How to "Autoforward" incoming BTC using Electrum
We would like to generate multiple addresses in Electrum, receive BTC to these addresses on a daily basis and auto-forward them to another address automatically.
So the flow would be this:
BTC Sent ...
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Electrum seed does not work when put into iancoleman's site
I used Electrum to make a new wallet and I copied out the twelve word seed. I then copied this into https://iancoleman.io/bip39. From previous experience a few years ago, I expected this to generate a ...
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Is it possible to generate SegWit bc1 public/private key pair using Electrum command line?
I am looking for a way to generate SegWit bc1 public/private key pair that one can use as a paper wallet.
Thanks for helping out!
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Import Bitcoin core pubkey into Electrum for multisig setup
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I have a service running on a server using bitcoin core that is signing transactions from a Bitcoin wallet automatically. However, if anyone were to get access to this server, they'd have ...
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How can I simulate a reorg for testing?
I'm trying to test the Bitcoin Dev Kit Electrum client with Electrs 0.9.1 for the case of a 1-block reorg. I use
invalidateblock on my single regtest bitcoind 22.0, but I don't see my
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Scripthash from bitcoin address with Golang
I broke my head looking for a solution.
I want use bitcoin address for electrumx
Take bitcoin address from docs example: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
And i need convert to ...
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electrum doesn't start with new ubuntu 22.04. It needs libfuse
I have new installation of ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
When tried to start electrum I get the following error:
dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2
AppImages require FUSE to run.
You might still be able to ...
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GPG Suite cannot find Thomas Voegtlin's public key for Electrum
I'm trying to reinstall Electrum but cannot find Thomas Voegtlin's public key using GPG Suite, so cannot verify the downloaded Electrum software. Do I just need to keep trying or is there an ...
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Electrum 4.2.1 GUI - Console payto error
I am using Electrum 4.2.1 GUI. I have tried using command payto in console and got the error below. What I can do? Is there any new command for this version or I am missing configuration?
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Bitcoin tx with electrum has been unconfirmed for more than 24 hours and cannot be found on blockchain
I tried to sell some BTC yesterday but the coins did not arrive and the tx remained unconfirmed and still is now. When I right click 'view on block explorer' it says 'Transaction not found'.
What can ...
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What does the "Tx" column mean in Electrum?
I found that there is a Tx column. For most of the addresses, the value in that column is 0.
For some addresses with balance greater than zero, it's not 0.
What does "tx" mean in this table?
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How does Bitcoin Core know about a new address created in a different wallet?
Using importprvkey, I imported all the private keys of an Electrum wallet into a Bitcoin Core wallet (courtesy the electrum2core script; 🎩-tip: somedude). Then, in Electrum, I created a new bech32 ...
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Can I pick a certain channel for payment?
Having Electrum wallet and 2+ open Lightning channels can I pick a certain one when paying for something? Or the channel is picked automatically due to some algorithm?
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How to change device label in Electrum?
Say one has a multi-sig Electrum wallet created using Electrum and two Trezor devices… can one change Trezor labels to COLDCARD labels without connecting COLDCARD devices (referring to device labels, ...
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