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1  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Security of Electrum wallet on: May 30, 2022, 08:14:50 PM
Thanks everyone for your valuable input. I learn new stuff everyday! I love this forum.
2  Bitcoin / Electrum / Security of Electrum wallet on: May 29, 2022, 06:43:14 PM
Hi, I've been told that hardware wallets are more secure than software wallets.

I wanted to find out exactly what are the risks of using a desktop Electrum wallet. Can someone elaborate?

If I were to use my desktop Electrum wallet over VPN, and be ultra careful about phishing scams and be careful not to download any upgrades from sources other than Electrum.org, does this eliminate 99.9% of risk of using Electrum? 
3  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Deleting Electrum wallet on: May 19, 2022, 11:19:45 PM
Thanks all for your feedback. Learned something new today. This is a great community.  Smiley
4  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Deleting Electrum wallet on: May 19, 2022, 03:31:28 AM
Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on May 18, 2022, 06:56:13 PM
Quote from: LTRippley on May 18, 2022, 05:10:32 PM
Thanks for your replies. I wasn't interested in retrieving the wallet file. I just wanted to make sure it was permanently deleted.
But why? There is no reason to delete a wallet. What if you accidentally receive coins to one of its addresses in the future and you have no way of accessing them?

As mentioned above, I used the Electrum wallet app on my desktop PC. I accumulated some BTC in that wallet app and decided that, going forward, I would use a hardware wallet instead. (I simply used the recovery seed to restore that wallet on my hardware device.) I had heard that a hot wallet could be hacked so I decided to delete that wallet file. Aren't hot wallets more susceptible to hacking? Correct me if I'm wrong.



5  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Deleting Electrum wallet on: May 18, 2022, 05:10:32 PM
Quote from: PawGo on May 18, 2022, 10:38:12 AM
Quote from: LTRippley on May 18, 2022, 03:36:27 AM
HI, I use my Electrum wallet app on my Windows PC. I recently deleted an Electrum wallet file (not the app itself). I expected to find the wallet file in the Recycle bin but it wasn't in there. (Normally all Windows files which get deleted go to the Recycle Bin.) Does anyone know why the wallet file didn't go into the Recycle bin? Where did the deleted file go, if not in the Recycle Bin?


Main question - did you delete it outside of the program or did you use Electrum File->Delete?
Electrum deletes file instantly (no Recycle Bin), your only option would be to use 3rd party Recovery services (application or give hdd to service).
First at all, shut down computer and unplug disk.


Thanks for your replies. I wasn't interested in retrieving the wallet file. I just wanted to make sure it was permanently deleted. (For sensitive files, I usually go to the Recycle Bin and delete it again to make sure it's gone forever.) But in answer to @PawGo, yes, I did use Electrum file->delete. This could explain why the file got deleted instantly without going to Recycle Bin.
6  Bitcoin / Electrum / Deleting Electrum wallet on: May 18, 2022, 03:36:27 AM
HI, I use my Electrum wallet app on my Windows PC. I recently deleted an Electrum wallet file (not the app itself). I expected to find the wallet file in the Recycle bin but it wasn't in there. (Normally all Windows files which get deleted go to the Recycle Bin.) Does anyone know why the wallet file didn't go into the Recycle bin? Where did the deleted file go, if not in the Recycle Bin?
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