Laptops are generally ill suited to run full nodes because their hard drives tend to .... "suck".  The bootstrapping process results in a lot of I/O.  Your CPU was idle a lot because it was waiting for that painfully slow laptop HDD to "catch up".  v0.8 is a step in the right direction and more improvements will happen overtime but you have to realize a node is a peer in a global banking network.  To be a full node is going to require some resources and that will only grow over time.  

There's a range:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key#Range_of_valid_private_keys

Still less than a 1 in 2¹²⁷ chance of missing it if I calculated this correctly.

*There is no 'green check mark' (bottom right) when Armory is fully synchronised, even though it states there will be within the dashboard:
---"You will see a green checkmark in the bottom right corner of the Bitcoin-Qt window if it is synchronized."

Fixed on master, will be in the next release.

The only problem with this friend is that he uses pepper instead of salt to all his meals. So I decided to leave quickly and went on to another friend. This friend always says that he even doesnt spice his meals.

Where is a list of version changes?

Wow that's really neat! And it allows me to execute the console commands which is something I really needed 2 days ago while trying to retrieve a single private key.


BTW this reminds me. I abandoned Electrum for my cold storage option. I don't know if you're familiar but I had an USB stick with ubuntu on it and two user accounts, one admin that was never connected with an offline wallet and another regular user that was online with a seedless wallet. But I was using electrum 1.0 which stopped working and when I updated to 1.57 it would give me some sort of error.

Anyway my point is that Electrum is a great client, but all of you who are developing it lack skills for selling it effectively. You can make it, no doubt, but your websites, documentation, ect is seriously lacking.  One virtually needs to be on your level of expertise to be able to troubleshoot any sort of an issue. For example I couldn't find a changelog for various versions, I couldn't figure out which version I must install on my ubuntu stick (linux or ubuntu/debian nightly) or how to update my version and there was some other stuff that I can't remember right now but was making me go mental over when I was trying to get it to work.

Anyway, that's ok, you don't need to know how to sell it effectively, any great business always distributed the making, selling and keeping the finances in order between different experts and all I'm trying to say here is that when you all get a chance please hire someone that will help you out and create user guides, FAQs and user friendly documentation so regular users like myself can easily learn how to use it (like this run while holding shift trick..).

Just a suggestion.

This doesn't work for me under win7 64bit. The process runs, takes up about 3mb of memory and nothing happens. The first time I ran it it hung at the unpacking stage.

EDIT: nvm, got it to work, I had to manually find and delete all files and folders associated with electrum and I think the problem was I already had appdata\local\electrum\ with a wallet and blockchain headers from slushe's build..

Thanks!

In Lite mode: if you start typing previously saved Label in "Enter a recipient address..." field, whole string (label and address) is copied... string stays in RED color (indicating an error address) and I'm unable to send BTCs.

It works fine in classic mode, though.

Donation sent.

The server is down  : /

Sorry that I ask,
But shouldn't it be a 256 bit number? (I assume that the output is in hexadecimal).

WHAT? Its that easy? Why don't people just do this when generating paper wallets etc rather than using tools like bitaddress.org.

Yes it worked. The setting was set to qt before. Now i manually edited it to classic. Maybe the command had to be "set gui classic" too instead to qt? Maybe then it would have been worked too?

The only strange thing is that i have to start the portable (-w) link 2 times. The first time it doesnt start but a python.exe process remains. When i click the link a second time another python.exe starts and electrum too.

I then wanted to try the new -P-Param. It looks like its only a param without a path to add. When using the -w param you have to specify the .dat-file and there are some files stored in roaming-directory which seems is not needed with -P.

Unfortunately the -P-Param seems not to work with flatfly-version because when starting it only asks to use shift at starting. But when i do this nothing starts too.

At least i can access the wallet one way or another now.

hey guys. Just salvaged 20.01 from my dad's old wallet.dat and sent it (after sending a test-mBTC) to his brand-new electrum wallet, which is friendly and instant, but VERY CONFUSING:

...

So now my dad thinks "oh, hey, 'they' doubled my bitcoins, how nice of 'them'. Now I have 40 bitcoins"

That's not very reassuring to a newbie like my dad.

Thanks flatfly.  There is a box that says "Install for Current User Only" which is checked... but perhaps my MSI creator doesn't do that correctly.  Maybe there's a way to force the correct behavior.

The "offline" thing is one of these strange situations... that message is expected to occur for users who are actually on an offline computer, and won't show up if they are on an online computer that isn't finished scanning.  If the user explicitly puts Armory into offline mode but could be online... I don't know what message to display to match their use case.  I would guess that's the correct message...?   I'll think about that.  Either way,  I added your name to my spreadsheet again

I'm glad you like the app -- I was thinking this might be good marketing for Armory, in addition to getting people to help test it.  If you keep digging through it, maybe you can vacuum up all the bounties for yourself   (and I hope you can see why I can't test this myself... there's an extraordinary number of options, actions, and states that Armory can be in for each of those).