You should tell much clearer what you expect from an Electrum that's offline.
While offline Electrum is great for signing transactions, if it's indeed on a computer that's always offline, if you ever go online with it, it defeats the purpose.
Then, if Electrum is offline, you cannot expect it to get the history of the transactions, since it should need an online server for that.
Since you had history, that wallet was not always offline.

All in all, I think that you're doing something wrong and you may have not understood that the money is not in the wallet, the coins are "on the network" and the wallet either needs to be online to "see" them, either works without, only for signing transactions (but for that you need an online watch only wallet too).

( I don't know how the VPN helps/works there, hence: ) Is the router forwarding 8333 to the windows 10 IP?

Many thanks HCP, this was the correct solution.

It wasn't straightforward at all, as a matter of fact I almost gave up at some point and I even unistalled Ubuntu after a couple of tries. But I've tried again, with Debian under WSL. I may have been making useless steps too, but I've finally got to the sweet:


Some notes:

• For now already the Debian folder takes 4 GB on my C: drive although Bitcoin runs under Windows and electrs actual data dir (30 GB) is set to somewhere else.
• The errors under Ubuntu were from not finding librocksdb-dev 6.11.4-3 to not "knowing" how to create files and folders on a Windows NTFS drive/folder. Not nice.
• For now it works well, but it uses bitcoind .cookie instead of user/pass, and I want to also make it start automatically, maybe also not fail if bitcoind didn't finish syncing, and obviously also install a block explorer.

When all is done I may even make another post with the steps, since I expect to not be the only Windows user here  

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Questions (need help) :
1. Is there any way to make electrs not fail (and instead retry later) if bitcoind is not available yet?
2. I could use some suggestions for the block explorer to install. Is it mempool.space or is there any better/easier one?

I think that this covers your question: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5364381

Although I tend to believe that LoyceV is right and you're lying, you had 10 years to buy at least some of those coins back to fix that mistake. If you didn't... too bad.

I would start with these 2 links:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/56924/what-does-signal-and-lock-in-mean-in-a-bip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Improvement_Proposals

Possibly the first one already gives you the "superficial" info you need.

I guess that this image tells it better than I could:

On the download page you can find:


The link from there goes to: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/master/pubkeys
And you'll find all the public keys there, including Emzy.


Interestingly on https://download.electrum.org/4.1.5/ I cannot see Emzy's asc, only ThomasV and sombernight_releasekey

If you really want to, you can always stay afraid that this or that will sell. Nobody stops you from that.
But would it make sense economically to sell now if they don't really need that money? I don't think so. Not yet.



I would indeed see it as profit. But such a big company probably has people with more experience in handling values and they will stay real.
And, as I said, I think that they will not rush to sell if they don't have to, in the same way the banks don't sell and re-buy their gold based on market moves.

That's only on the paper. As people said, unrealized profit.
1 BTC = 1 BTC. As long as they don't sell, there's no actual profit to talk about.
Nice bullish (for newbies) news though

While the quoting is reassuring, it may worth mentioning that it was already archived automatically at ninjastic.space and loyce.club too.

It's not only about the years of practice on those tracks.
Some tracks have longer straight lines, some have shorter; some have tigher corners, some have them wider; some allow easier overtaking by being wider overall, some don't... and so on.
This kind of differences will favor one car or another, one driver or another, not necessarily because of the years of practice.

It could be. But it's up to the seller to decide for himself.
Imho at least this kind of clarification could get you more sellers. Good luck!

If you expect the other party use PayPal for conversion, that won't work:

1. Although PayPal supports Bitcoin, it my support it only in US for now.
2. One cannot withdraw Bitcoin from PayPal account.

If you expect somebody else sell you bitcoin for your PayPal USD, you should look for the few people "adventurous" enough to do this; there aren't many and you may have to pay a premium, since bitcoin transfers are irreversible, while PayPal allows charge backs so you have the "tools" for scamming.

As also said in the other similar topic, there's too big chance that the data is not accurate.
All the conclusions are based on statistical data and it may depend -a lot- what mining pools were giving them the data.
Also the "other" 8.9% is huge and can be anywhere. Even if (ad absurdum) added to Iran's percents can make that country get the 3rd place.

Actually the miners do very well what they do: confirm transactions and get paid for that. As long as the miners want to get paid and want that their payment is valuable, they can (usually) be trusted. They can be seen as a pretty good 3rd party that doesn't care who is sending the transactions and why.

On the other hand, if the ledger is written by parties involved in the transaction, it can be expected that one of them may try to cheat. Afaik altcoins like Grin may be fixing that, but I didn't pay attention, if you are interested I suggest you research more.

Satoshi had a simple and effective approach; it doesn't mean that's the only possible approach. But also you should not expect this get implemented into Bitcoin.
A common saying is: You have an idea? Make your altcoin based on that and see if the idea works and the coin will have success.
All in all, in the same way you make a new electric car instead of converting your current (petrol based), you cannot really expect Bitcoin do such drastic changes, whether the idea is great or not.

Just my 2 satoshi.

Actually we are still just under 58k. We went to 58500 and then back to lower values.
And I think that one reason is psychological and related to European traders: the current "barrier" is 50k EUR 
Let's give it a bit more time. We'll pass this too.

I was planning to not use emulated disk, at least (not) for bitcoin datadir. I was planning to use the shared disk functionality (or connect directly to the USB) and use the external USB disk I already have with a pretty much up to date datadir.

The VBox direction was chosen because I have to have Windows as main OS and I failed to install - at least at start - any reasonable Electrum server onto Windows. And on VBox I managed to have a Linux working with my USB disk. I've noticed that's not the best direction (and thanks for the heads up about the traffic!), but it was the best I could think of. After reading about Docker I am afraid to use it on this machine (I don't want to have to reinstall windows if I do something wrong).


Later on I managed to make Electrum Personal Server work on Windows, but that's still not enough, since as step 2 I intend to also get a block explorer.
I intend to try now @HCP direction with WSL; from what he said here, his setup looks very promising.

Am gasit de curand o poza care din puntul meu de vedere zice cam totul despre analizele tehnice. Chiar daca nu e din crypto.
Ideea e ca daca nu vrei sa faci asumptii bazate pe asteptarile tale, poti destul de usor sa ajungi la...


( sursa: https://twitter.com/BitcoinFear/status/1446815284707266564 )

just as a note, the topic is also discussed here: After a few months of China crackdown on mining. Check it out!