Starting with "bc1..." am I right? Those are native Segwit addresses, and unfortunately, they still aren't suported by many services/exchanges/wallets. You can create a legacy/standard wallet (addresses starting with a "1"), which are accepted everywhere by selecting it when creating a new wallet, or you can create a nested Segwit wallet (Segwit with addresses starting with a "3") which have cheaper fees and are also accepted everywhere.
That's how you can do it:
This isn't safe. You are trusting that site to not steal from you. Please don't encourage people to do this everytime they face a small problem with bech32 addresses. Much better to tell them to simply create a legacy wallet. |
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I wouldn't mind being able to get that far, heh. I've not had much luck even connecting to servers in the new 3.3.4 release. I tried at least 10 different ones. The circle in the corner stays red. How long should it take before it starts synchronising?
Straight away. If it doesn't do that keep switching. Servers are being heavily ddosed because the phishing vulnerability has created an incentive for scammers to control which server you connect to. It's turned into a war! |
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That's the phishing vulnerability. You installed malware. Sorry for your loss.
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Stop listening to the other guy. You can manually create a shortcut to run electrum. A shortcut pointing to the appimage. Lookup how to create shortcuts using your desktop environment. Gnome is it?
To remove the other shortcut i.e. the one to the non-functional electrum install do `sudo pip3 uninstall electrum`
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Listen man I've already explained above that pyqt5 is compiled against the version of python that came with ubuntu not the one you recently installed from source. Just use the app image and save yourself this headache. You keep asking for help but don't read what we write.
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Tried your suggestions, thank you. Got good and bad.
The good is that everything seemed to run without any critical errors. And it created a menu entry.
The bad is that clicking on that menu entry didn't do anything.
The path for the menu shortcut is: sh -c "PATH=\"\$HOME/.local/bin:\$PATH\" electrum %u"
Any other suggestions will be appreciated. (Other than switching to another distribution, which is a bit too extreme for me.)
BTW, I am considering upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. If I do so, will this problem go away? If so, I might move my upgrade schedule up a bit.
Thank you.
run it in a terminal and you'll get informative error messages. just open a terminal and type "electrum" or "$HOME/.local/bin/electrum". most likely it'll complain about pyqt5 being missing. |
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There are no verified servers. Even the ones in the default list are being bought out by scammers. Use 3.3.4 and you won't be vulnerable to phishing scams although you may have to learn to change servers. |
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First of all I suggest making additional backup copies of default_wallet.original. Then open that file in electrum 2.6.4 if you have it installed, go to wallet menu > password and disable password there by entering it in the first two fields and entering nothing in the last field. You only have to do this last step if you have a password set. Then go to file > save copy and save a copy of the wallet file somewhere convenient and open it in notepad or some other plain text editor and tell me whether you can see x1 and x2 like here: https://termbin.com/nc0lAre the xprv and xpub there? Don't share them with anyone. Just tell me whether your wallet's xprv and xpubs are there are not. Note they will be different from the ones in example above except for the fact that they start with xprv and xpub. I think this will not work to encrypted electrum wallet with 2fa enabled you must decrypt the default_wallet.dat first before you can see the correct one as the same as what shows from here https://termbin.com/nc0lThat's why i asked him to remove the password first. What I think right now is OP should make an offline transaction and broadcast it to broadcasting sites like https://coinb.in/#broadcastOp should make a sign transaction from Electrum and copy the raw transaction and broadcast it through coinb.in. He can't do that since it's a 2fa wallet and he needs trusted coin to sign his transaction. I have a good idea of what will work. What I posted above (and replicated here because termbin links expire in 30days) is a partial 2fa wallet. Think of it as a template. All he has to do is replace the x1 and x2 xprv/xpubs in it with his own and open the resulting wallet file in the latest electrum version. Electrum will detect it as a partial wallet file and he can simply follow on-screen prompts to complete the wallet creation process. |
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Because he's installing from source he will have a hard time keeping up with updates to python. It is better to stick to the software in your distro's repository, use the app image or switch to a distro that has newer packages. We don't install from source anymore for a reason - it becomes harder to maintain the system. edit: see this. |
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pyqt5 will not be compiled against that version of python so he'll have to build that from source as well. in the process he's screwed up his system. non of these are packaged so keeping up with updates will be a pain.
it would be better if he just used the app image or upgraded to a distro that has python 3.6 like opensuse leap.
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First of all I suggest making additional backup copies of default_wallet.original. Then open that file in electrum 2.6.4 if you have it installed, go to wallet menu > password and disable password there by entering it in the first two fields and entering nothing in the last field. You only have to do this last step if you have a password set. Then go to file > save copy and save a copy of the wallet file somewhere convenient and open it in notepad or some other plain text editor and tell me whether you can see x1 and x2 like here: https://termbin.com/nc0lAre the xprv and xpub there? Don't share them with anyone. Just tell me whether your wallet's xprv and xpubs are there are not. Note they will be different from the ones in example above except for the fact that they start with xprv and xpub. |
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Animazing no longer signs releases. That file thomasv.asc may install both Thomas' key and Animazings but animazing no longer signs releases. He used to years ago. Thomas' key's fingerprint is: 6694 D8DE 7BE8 EE56 31BE D950 2BD5 824B 7F94 70E6 and it is used to sign releases. He won't be able to upgrade python on this system since his distro doesn't offer a newer version. Best he use the appimage like i said above. |
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See under linux here. This'll download, verify and "install" (make executable) the appimage version which should work on any 64bit linux system. |
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you should create a bookmark to the electrum site and use that every time. it's not safe to rely on google. also www or no www doesn't make a difference. both point to the same server: ; <<>> DiG 9.11.2 <<>> www.electrum.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 43124
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.electrum.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.electrum.org. 10800 IN CNAME electrum.org.
electrum.org. 1800 IN A 176.9.76.164
;; Query time: 178 msec
;; SERVER: 208.67.220.220#53(208.67.220.220)
;; WHEN: Sat Mar 30 15:14:13 PKT 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 75
You ask a lot of questions jerry0. You need to learn to learn on your own. |
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There is no way currently to generate an electrum seed from a password. It's not safe to do so it's not supported by the software.
You can extend the auto-generated seed with your own words/characters. Or set a password on the wallet file and rely on that file backup only (file > save copy).
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i've never used it myself. maybe ask herealternatively you can just pass the transaction file back and forth. export it to a file, shuttle that to the other device, sign and broadcast. to export click on the export button in the preview window. to load the unsigned/signed tx click on tools menu > load transaction > from file. |
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Doesn't work with the android version. You can instead preview the unsigned transaction on the wallet where you first created it and click on the qr code icon to see the qr code. Then on the android phone go to send and tap the camera icon. Take a pic of the qr code and then tap sign and broadcast.
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what os are you using? name and version please.
is there are hardware wallet in the mix?
can you confirm that the plugin is enabled on all installations? tools > plugins > cosigner pool should be checked.
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The number of confirmations will increase every 10 minutes on average for as long as bitcoin exists!
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