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Hello

What is the most comfortable approach to share my bitcoin-address - maybe by QR-code - to somebody who wants to transfer
Bitcoin funds to my Electrum-wallet (on Tails (without persistence) ?

Thank's a  lot for any feedback!

Joe

I've been testing/using Tails at some point too with Electrum. Also without persistence.
Iirc, the things I needed to "get out" of Tails electronically (mostly addresses or master public keys), I've put onto a secondary USB stick in the same computer (as files created with the text editor).

You can get a qr code on tails. I'm not sure the best way of loading up the wallet though other than typing in the mnemonic (you might want to make a 24 word one because 12 word ones are quite memorable after you've typed them in a couple times).

Electrum does have it's own qr feature near the request tab and then another one if you click on address details in the addresses tab (but you might have to enable the addresses tab first).

It'll depend on what tails is capable of doing though if you want to run the whole thing offline and SEND funds too - such as if it has a driver for a webcam you want to use.

Tails supports printer, you can print the QR code if it's for someone near you.
Alternatively, you can take a picture of the invoice/address's QR using your phone's camera.

If showing the QR code is the actual issue: you can display it using the small "QR icon" beside the "copy icon".
https://i.imgur.com/oX1gWtM.png

Any option that does not involve connecting your device running Tails to the internet or to any other computer or network.

Snap a picture of the address itself or its QR code with your phone camera or a camera on another computer and send it to the other party (be careful not to include any privacy breaking information in the picture).
Transfer the address to a clean and formatted USB drive or other removable media and physically give it to the other party or us the USB drive to transfer the address to an internet connected computer and send it to the other party.
Print out the address or its QR code.
Read it out over the phone or write it down manually (more prone to errors).

Another option which haven't mentioned by other member is using online service such as pastebin where you just need to share 8 character long after pastebin.com (pastebin.com/XXXXXXXX). Obviously it's not ideal option if both party have privacy concern.


IIRC you need admin/root access to mount any partition which isn't part of Tails OS.