Unanswered Questions
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Electrum Seed Purpose for MultiSig Wallet
I'm curious as to what exactly is protected by the seed that Electrum generates for a multisig wallet. My knowledge of the protocol implementation is rather basic, so please correct me where I'm wrong ...
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Electrum transaction still says unconfirmed parent
A transaction from Electrum is still showing unconfirmed parent even though the previous transaction in the chain has completed. Electrum has shown this for 24 hours now. I realize that my fee is ...
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Electrum via command-line: can generic blockchain info be requested?
For example can I ask the Electrum client via it's API what the height or version of the latest block is? Looking through the docs all I currently see is wallet commands.
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Electrum - Why do I have to Restore every time I use it?
I did not forget my password. I have been done dozens of transactions with Electrum, and every time I try to send bitcoins, I get "Invalid Password". So I restore from seed, set a new password, use it ...
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Is it possible to import transaction history from an old electrum wallet to a new electrum wallet?
I see there is an option to export history but no option to import history. It would be nice to keep all my history in one wallet. Thx.
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How does Electrum's "send change to lightning" work?
In Electrum, when sending to a non-Lightning ₿ address, I can choose the "send change to lightning" option. How does this work?
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How to get transaction fee info using Python from an Electrum server?
I can get a raw transaction and parse it using electrum and bitcoinlib fairly easily:
import bitcoinlib
from electrum.daemon import Daemon
from electrum.simple_config import SimpleConfig
class ...
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listaddressgroupings or dumpwallet? I need to dump private keys from Bitcoin-QT
I have a Bitcoin-QT wallet and the client is more than a year out of sycn. It would take years and massive amount of data to get it synced so, this is out of the question.
My plan was to move my coins ...
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How to use `blockchain.scripthash.subscribe` from a tcp socket in Electrum server
As a personal exercise I want to write a minimal copy of BTCPayServer. I decided to use Electrum server instead of a node to fetch information from the network. My final goal is to be able to track ...
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How to connect to an ElectrumX server using JavaScript WebSockets?
I'm trying to connect to an ElectrumX server from an HTML webpage. But I can't get a working connection.
I've tried with many servers from Electrum's servers.json list but none worked.
Here's the ...
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Step by Step to Connect to ElectrumX via Nodejs
I am developing a simple app that will need to retrieve BTC wallet Address Balance and relative transactions
Initially I thought to use some existing APIs (btc.com, blockchain.com etc.), but the ...
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Intermittent error "min relay fee not met" even with decent fee and custom Electrumx+Bitcoind
I have an automated system that sends BTC payments via Electrum for a client.
Now, it happens again and again that payments keep failing with "min relay fee not met" (RPC call failed: {"code":-32603,"...
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What is the smallest ubuntu virtualbox image to run cryptocurrency software on?
I'm looking to do all my crypto related stuff like storing coins and managing my coin wallets inside a virtualbox. I plan to use ubuntu as it seems most friendly with many crypto coins. What is the ...
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Electrum error "server did not answer" when trying to send?
I am now getting this error. Several sites discuss it, but they are all fairly old. I have restarted electrum, and restarted the computer. Selecting a different server either doesn't help, or it ...
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How is the transaction fee for sending bitcoins using Electrum wallet calculated ?
I am trying to understand how is the fee for transaction calculated for desktop wallets like electrum.
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