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Title: Will Electrum take over my Hard Drive Post by: Possum on December 15, 2015, 10:04:00 AM I used the Windows Bitcoin app https://bitcoin.org/en/download (https://bitcoin.org/en/download) to store send and receive my bitcoins. Now that I am on Linux I have downloaded Electrum.
I wasnt too happy with my Widows Wallet. It took forever to get up to date and used Tons of Hard drive space.. Does Electrum do the same... Thank you.. Title: Re: Will Electrum take over my Hard Drive Post by: mocacinno on December 15, 2015, 10:04:42 AM No, it will not ;D
It's a HD wallet, it won't download the full blockchain, so it'll be really small. Just remember to write down your seed words! Title: Re: Will Electrum take over my Hard Drive Post by: jackbox on December 15, 2015, 10:16:57 AM No. it uses special servers and only scans the blockchain and downloads block headers only. It uses very little space compared to wallets that download the entire blockchain.
Title: Re: Will Electrum take over my Hard Drive Post by: torusJKL on December 15, 2015, 03:01:52 PM Electrum is an SPV (Simplified Payment Verification) client.
You can read about the differences of a Full and SPV node here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security) |