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The developer actually doesn't recommend the portable version. I suggest going with the windows installer version. Why are people so afraid of using that? On windows installing software is as easy as clicking next, next, next!
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You guys need to go take a look at the mycelium thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=293472.0Those guys still haven't gotten their own sub-forum although they very much deserve it. One of the top bitcoin wallets operates out of a single thread! |
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Thanks @longbob72
@Abdussamad, What are you trying to advise me from that link? Basically what I gather from that link is about backup and restoring at the wrong place.
I just wanted to point out that you can create shortcuts to open specific wallet files using electrum. That'll make it easier to run two different wallets at the same time. And because you will always be opening the wallets using the shortcuts you create you can never mistakenly use the wrong wallet (as the OP in that thread did). From what @longbob72 had mentioned, I could just safely restore from seed, hence can ignore the backing up of wallet file and hence no headache from restoring at the wrong place. Am I right here?
Restoring your wallet from a seed backup does not restore labels for transactions and addresses. You can enable the labels plugin to store those labels encrypted on a remote server. But I think it is better to keep a copy of the wallet file too. |
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You can use the -w switch to make a shortcut to your specific wallet file: electrum -w c:\path\to\wallet
I may have lost 3BTC because of this fucking shit.
Sorry to hear that. Others have complained about this too in the past. If you are not using the default wallet then you should just move it out of the electrum folder that btchris specified above. Electrum does list the wallet file name in the window title so you should pay attention to that. |
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where are you downloading electrum from? the official site is at electrum.org I'm having a really annoying problem, I was using an old version of Electrum and the program said I cant transfer bitcoins using versions under 2.5 build.
this sounds strange to me. when does the program say this? |
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Actually skrill allows BTC deposits indirectly, let me explain you. You can open a neteller account and deposit with bitcoins there ( they take just 1% fees ) then then you can upload from neteller to skrill ( the fees is 3% ) so actually you get BTC to skrill at just 4% fees.
You can now directly deposit money via btc into your skrill account. The fee is just 1%: https://i.imgur.com/MlEeA4n.jpg |
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Some days ago I saw a thread about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1699023.0But looks they just accept it informally via neteller or any other service offering itself as middle-man to complete the transaction. Do Bitcoin option appear directly in Skrill site for you? I can't see this. Or that is why what I said above, or because my country doesn't accept this. yes it appears directly: https://i.imgur.com/MlEeA4n.jpg |
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Skrill now lets you upload money to your skrill account using bitcoin. The fee is 1%. The option is right there on the upload funds page. Go take a look if you have a skrill account!
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guys i can't afford your premiums. please take a look at my ad to see the sort of prices i'm looking for. if you can't sell at that price then please don't bother posting in this thread.
Skrill can chargeback- hence the premium Yeah I'm aware of that but I've already purchased at that price before. I mean the price relative to bitstampusd. |
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guys i can't afford your premiums. please take a look at my ad to see the sort of prices i'm looking for. if you can't sell at that price then please don't bother posting in this thread.
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I understand that the xprivkey (the master private key) is derived from the seed, and that no information is lost when calculating the xprivkey from the seed.
Well it's run through hashing functions so I wouldn't say no information is lost. By definition hashing functions will take input of arbitrary size and output a number of a fixed size. You can't convert the output of the hashing function back into its input. That's why they are also called trap door functions. I believe that you can generate the same wallet from either the seed or the xprivkey
Yep that's true provided you know the algorithm used to generate the xprivkey from the seed. |
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Hello, i have the following questions:
1. Is the master private key the same as the seed? If no then:
2. How to use the `getmasterprivate` in a linux command line, can somebody explain the syntax how to use it? For example if I put my wallet in the /home folder, how to retrieve it's master private key?
1. Strictly speaking it's not the same. The seed mnemonic is run through hashing functions and then out comes the master private key. So the seed is used to derive the master private key which is used to derive all the address specific private keys. seed mnemonic > master private key > nearly unlimited addresses and associated key pairs. 2. electrum getmasterprivate -w /path/to/wallet_file . wallet files are in ~/.electrum/wallets. ~/ is your home directory. |
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When I try to transfer, the status say: Partially signed. And no money gone.
If I type my 2FA code after my password, I get: Invalid otp
Can anyone please help!?
Thank you!!
iZ
Invalid otp means the 2fa code you typed in is incorrect. Usually this happens because the time on your PC and/or your mobile are wrong. So make sure the clock on both those devices is set correctly. Hi, I get the same problem as you, i checked up the time on my pc and everything is okay? Could you help me please? Gratefully do you have the seed written down? In older versions it was 25 words. In the latest version i believe it is 12 words. If you have the seed written down then use the file menu > new/restore option to restore your wallet. Be sure to select 2fa as the wallet type when asked. Use file > open to open this wallet in future. |
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Of course;: the solution , is when the wallet is restored with the seed, to ask for the generation of the hundred (for example) of the previously generated addresses, then ELECTRUM will search in the block chain the effective content of each of them... what a wonderful world... something like... paradise ?  Actually increasing the gap limit is something that advanced users do so there is no easy option for it. You have to restore your wallet as you normally would and then follow this: The gap limit is the number of unused addresses Electrum keeps track of. To increase the gap limit open your wallet and go to the console tab. Type in wallet.change_gap_limit(50). Close Electrum and reopen your wallet to see new addresses listed on the receive tab.
Note that you shouldn't increase the gap limit to more than a 100 (I recommend 50 as above). Electrum slows down with thousands of addresses so you shouldn't burden it with a higher gap limit. Eventually if you do end up using thousands of addresses you would be well advised to create a new wallet and begin anew. You can always send your bitcoins from the old wallet to the new one. |
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You will get all your addresses.
All the addresses are generated from your seed in sequence. When you restore your wallet Electrum simply keeps generating new addresses in sequence until it finds 20 successive unused ones. A used address is any address that has received bitcoins to it. So don't worry you will never lose your bitcoins as long as you have the seed backup.
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the cert files are the ssl certs for electrum servers. they do not contain any wallet info so they are useless.
since you have the default wallet file and you do know the password it may be worth a try to hit up dave from walletrecoveryservices.com. maybe he can salvage something from the wallet file. could simply be a file encoding issue.
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just go to the receive tab and you'll get an address there.
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then you need to switch servers in electrum so that it can get the right picture of your transactions. i have no idea how this is done in the mobile version of electrum but i'm sure someone here will tell you or you could have a look around in the electrum interface yourself?
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