I understand but there is always a first time. I promise you it won't bite


File open opens an existing wallet. Once you've created a new wallet you can indeed use file open to open it. You could also create a shortcut (right click shortcut > properties > target) like this to directly access a specific wallet:

electrum -w c:\path\to\wallet



Multiple wallets are fun and useful if you are a power user. You can isolate coins from different sources under different wallets. You can setup offline wallets and online watch only wallets. Offline wallets are considered safer than online wallets.

Multiple versions of electrum on the same system are not useful.

Dear Bitcoiners,

Since the 1st of january I have officially left my previous job (computer scientist at INRIA) in order to work full time on the development of Electrum. My plan is to create a company, Electrum Technologies, that will distribute the Electrum software, and sell related services. This company project is now officially supported by the incubator of the french region Lorraine (http://incubateurlorrain.org/ ); we signed the contract yesterday.

I am now working on version 2.0 of Electrum. The following features are under development:

1. A Patricia tree data structure, also called "Ultimate Blockchain Compression", will be implemented in Electrum servers. This data structure allows a client to get the balance of any address instantly, and it will also generate a "proof of completeness" (the root hash of the patricia tree), that can be used to check that the server sent all UTXOs related to a given address to the client. A first implementation of this patricia tree was recently completed, and is available in the 'fulltree' branch of the Electrum server. This prototype uses a 256-way branching, and can import recent blocks at 2s/block. Following maaku's suggestion ( https://github.com/maaku/bips/blob/master/drafts/auth-trie.mediawiki ), I plan to upgrade it with binary branching. I also look forward to maaku's C++ implementation, which should be much faster than Python.

2. Version 2.0 will use BIP32 wallets with multiple accounts (this feature was initially planned for 1.9, but it had to be postponed)
Some of these accounts will have no "gap limit", so that merchants can create arbitrary numbers of addresses without messing with the internal parameters of their wallet.

3. Version 2.0 will have a daemon mode, that remains always connected, and that can be queried with json-rpc. This means that shell scripts will be able to use multiple Electrum commands without without opening and closing sockets for each command.

4. A 2-factor authentication service using multisig addresses is under development, that will be available in Electrum through a paying plugin. I made a demonstration of that service in Barcelona last fall, during the meeting organized by genjix. I am now working with lawyers, in order to define the terms of use for that service.

The ETA for version 2.0 (including points 2 and 3) is about 1 month from now. The multisig service (4) will probably require an extra month in order to be finalized.

I am looking forward to the coming months, and I hope to deliver the best possible software.

Thomas

Note: I will attend the Berlin conference in february; send me a note if you want to meet me there.

Be sure to join todays 300 GTD Satellite for your chance at the seat in the Big 300 GTD Nightly. 

Also checkout the new Nightly 20 Chip Freeroll - 20 GTD which runs at 10:30pm EST.


Congratulations to JACKSORBETTER who won today's first daily 300 GTD Satellite, 1 Seat GTD tournament with a 1 chip buyin, which then placed JACKSORBETTER in the Big 300 GTD Nightly - 25 Chips which JACKSORBETTER also won!  Not bad for a 1 chip buyin. 

Let's start a count down till the new client.

T - X

Oh, the 1st deposit bonus is 100%? Thanks. Why all these bonuses work so strange, got to email and stuff :p Can't you guys (from Betcoin) automatically apply a bonus? (or have no bonus and just lower the rake.) Also, I don't like to e-mail, can Betcoin support on this forum apply the bonus to me? (username: NLNico)

I honestly did not play some tourneys today because I don't have a bonus and feel like I am missing value while others do have that value. The tournament schedule does look really good, would like to play at least that big 300 daily and prolly most 5/10 chip tourneys.

that's exactly why they don't do it

you could just register an other time with an other IP

Micon how do respond to some of the rumors floating around that your site is rigged to produce dramatic play scenarios to increase rake potential?

Hello nioc, bonus money is released at a rate of 15% of the rake generated by the player.  We hope this answers your question and please let us know any other questions.

Yes I have checked it out.  I guess you misspoke as it is the rewards points that can be converted into chips and the rewards points are based on the status points.  I have converted some rewards points.

Under status points my current month earned is about 3x my lifetime earned.  Obviously this is wrong.  Also my current month earned total includes the points earned last month.  I believe last month was the only other month I earned status points as before that the low stakes games were rake free and did not earn points.

We still are working on this as well as the status points which are also earned and released into btc.  Have you had a chance to access your status points as well and see the Player's Club levels?