you can set a custom fee to spend those small inputs. it'll take a long time for the transaction to confirm but you'll have consolidated those small inputs: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-manually-set-transaction-fees/the answer to your original question is that you happen to have a lot of small unspent outputs perhaps from mining or faucets. you may not have realized at the time but those cost a pretty penny to spend. |
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electrum usually warns you if the fee is very high compared the amount you are trying to send to the recipient. default settings are a fee higher than 600 sats/byte or 5% or greater than the amount you wish to transfer.
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wow 15 cosigners. make sure you backup the xpubs as well (wallet > information). otherwise you won't be able to sign transactions even if you have the required subset of cosigners.
may i ask what the usecase is for such a large multisig setup?
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Looking at the raw transaction, no. You'd have to probably do an indepth analysis of the spending behaviour. There could be some behaviours that could give clues to what kind of wallet it is. It's by no means accurate though. For example, a transaction without opt-in RBF and with a legacy address could be a Blockchain.com wallet but it could also be someone intentionally disabling opt-in RBF or just spending from an old Bitcoin Core client.
You can also spend Segwit inputs together with P2SH(3...) or P2PKH(1...) inputs on most wallets so a transaction won't be indicative of what kind of wallet it is primarily.
electrum doesn't let you mix and match address types except for imported private keys. usually you can tell which address is the change address and which one is the recipient's. as for other things they usually stick to bips. for example lexicographic ordering: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0069 |
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tell her that bitcoin transactions are irreversible. rooted phones are not safe.
consider that she may not be interested in bitcoin and is only saying this to dissuade you. you should take the hint.
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Is there any documentation for the make_seed command? Does it make a seed with version number included, is it segwit by default for the latest Electrum version 4?
you can pass the following args: async def make_seed(self, nbits=None, language=None, seed_type=None):
so you can do make_seed(nbits=256, language="english", seed_type="standard")
the above will create a 256bit seed in english with p2pkh wallet type. segwit is indeed the default type in 4.0.x So if I just use make_seed(256) and it spits out 24 words, I can use that as my seed phrase for Electrum to set up or recover from it seems?
yes. you can also use your own larger wordlist to get smaller mnemonics. you just have to replace the english.txt file with your own one: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/english-alpha-numeric.txtthe above file will give you a 19 word seed instead of a 24 word one. for example: "gratify thumping 785 stoning rose 1323 1244 3189 kindred 6932 837 hyperlink expletive 2845 willing override 3967 1878 national" |
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Hi guys! It's my first time ever having an bitcoin wallet and I downloaded Electrum, since ppl said it's the best for beginners. Well I have two guestions. 1) How long does it take until my deposit moves? As a newbie, I didn't know the point in that fee. First time I made a send, I paid medium fee and it took two days to be marked as "cleared". The second time I paid the minimum fee, I paid the smallest I could. It's been almost 3 complete days and it's STILL "Unconfirmed" phase!!  In the "Send" tab, there reads "Paid" on 18th but when you go to the "History" tab, there still reads "Unconfirmed". 2) What's the difference in those three options it gives you when paying the fee? I don't remember what those three options were, "Static" probably was one of them? Anyway, what's the difference in those? You need to choose one when you pay the fee. Thanks in advance!  1) depends on the fee you paid and the market conditions i.e. the fees other people have paid for scarce blockchain space. history tab is what matters btw so you do have an unconfirmed transaction. what you can do is bump the fee: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/frequently-asked-questions/#my-bitcoin-transaction-is-not-confirming-what-can-i-do2) see this article about that: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-manually-set-transaction-fees/you want to use either eta or mempool. don't use static because it won't react to changes in fee market conditions. |
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When you're creating an airgapped wallet, the online desktop wallet should have your master public key imported and it should be able to allow you to see all the addresses related to that airgapped wallet. There is no need to pick specific addresses, unless you want to use CoinControl and you can right click the specific address and press "Send From" to select specific transaction outputs to spend. After generating the raw transaction, you can either export it as a QR code or a file for it to be signed on the offline computer.
I'm not exactly sure what's the context of this. You created a new topic previously and I'm wondering if that's related.
I meant...to a new seed, unless there is an option to change the seed, which would provide the them result as moving the coins to a new one. The context is to change the seed/private key. just create a new wallet via file > new/restore and then grab a receive address from the receive tab. you can then switch to the old wallet via file > recently open or file > open and use the send tab to send the coins to the new wallet's address. |
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It seems that you may not understand the "workflow" in Electrum for creating/sending transactions... and are clicking things that are not doing what you think they are. There are some slightly "confusing" parts of the Electrum UI/UX and it may not be obvious to new users.  For instance, on the "Send" tab, when you click "Pay"... it doesn't necessarily immediately send funds. You need to select the fee using the fee slider (or inspect the transaction details using "Advanced"), then enter a password (if required)... before clicking "Send". However, if you use the "Advanced Preview", you need to click "Finalize", then "Sign" (enter password if required), then click "Broadcast".
If you click "save" on the "Send" tab, then it just adds an "Outgoing payment" and marks it as "unpaid" (you need to right click and select "Pay" to actually get this signed/broadcast etc) However, if you use the "save" on the "Advanced Preview"... it saves a local copy of your transaction in your "History"... shows an "unconfirmed" amount being sent, but it is only on your PC. Nothing is sent, nothing is "broadcast" to the network: 
As for "bump fee", that should generate a completely new transaction (different TransactionID etc)... and the original transaction should be removed. So what exactly do you see in the "Transaction History" for your wallet?  Do you see the test transaction you sent with a green tick? I've been using electrum for several years. It's this new update that has me confused. That transaction, the money went and was received, and one part in Send shows the money there. There is no green tick. It still shows the three gears and unconfirmed. The bottom also shows the send unconfirmed but the money was received. Your explanation is too complicated for me to understand. I'm a just give me the basics kinda gal. The problem started when I tried to raise the fee. When I first sent it it picked a fee that said it was too high, like 600%. so I moved it and it would either go to zero or some outrageously high amount. I tried again and that time I guess it worked and it went through but it's the transaction I think for the extra fee that is caught in limbo. I know how to send money, it's this version that I'm struggling with. I'm just gonna wait a few weeks and see what happens and worst case start over. What I'd like is a step by step for dummies on basic steps to send money. When to broadcast, what to broadcast, what to sign? I never had a problem. This is the first time I've ever had problem. normally you don't do any broadcasting because the app does itself. you can go to tools > preferenecs > transactions tab and uncheck advanced preview to avoid seeing that confusing window the only case where you would do broadcasting is if you bumped the fee. never click save or export. you may also want to right click and delete those unpaid payments from teh send and history tab. this will reduce the confusion level. also note that the history tab is authoritative for transactions related to your wallet. the send tab is not authoritative for this and neither is the receive tab. you can delete entries in the list on the send tab if they are bothering you. on the history tab the only things you can delete are local transactions. those got dropped from the mempool of the server you are connected to so they never actually happened. right click menu lets you do this. |
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that tab is hidden by default because people get confused by all those addresses. you can hide it again via the view menu. just use the receive tab to get addresses.
That's the kind of answer you shouldn't give to anyone. OP didn't ask whether he can hide the tab. He asked what those addresses mean. Such an answer is rude to say at least. I did not mean to be rude. You guys covered the basics like what the two type of addresses are for. I just wanted to add to the discussion by pointing out the tradeoffs the developers made in designing the UI. When that tab was visible by default people would ask us what all these addresses were for. When it is hidden people ask how to get an address  Damned if you do and damned if you don't! |
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try recreating the wallet using the private key. file > new/restore and enter unique filename and click ok, select "import bitcoin addresses or private keys" , paste in private key and follow on-screen instructions for the rest. then see if you can spend the coins. if you can't then file a bug report on github because this is a problem for the developers not us: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues |
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it's a plain text file containing json content. should be human readable using a plain text editor like notepad.
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fyi using electrum you can sweep to any address not just one in your wallet
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when it crashes you should use the send bug report option to create a github issue so that the developers can look into it. this is the only way to get the bug fixed over the medium term.
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in the first window you see when you run electrum you just change the filename to a new and unused one to get the option to restore in a new wallet file. alternatively there's file > new/restore via the menus.
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that tab is hidden by default because people get confused by all those addresses. you can hide it again via the view menu. just use the receive tab to get addresses.
basically your wallet can generate unlimited addresses from your seed. it'll keep creating new ones as you use up the old ones. you generally don't have to worry or fixate on addresses. they are supposed to be single use only.
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to use segwit you will have to create a new electrum wallet and choose segwit as the script type when asked. it'll create bech32 addresses for you (bc1 addresses). then you simply send from the old to the new wallet. you will have to move your coins to a new btc wallet anyway before you go claiming fork coins so be sure to do it like this.
to begin the process of creating a new wallet go to file > new/restore. you can switch wallet files via file > open or recently open.
this forum is only for bitcoin electrum so we can't really help you with the fork coins' versions of electrum. they are maintained by other people.
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yeah bitcoin is a very expensive clock.
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in order to recreate the wallet you need the missing cosigner's xpub. so even if you have 2 out of 3 cooperating cosigners but no xpub for the remaining 3rd one you will not be able to spend the coins. the only way to get the xpubs now is to have them recreate the wallet and email you the xpub that electrum gives them. it's may be a Zpub or something btw. the different first letters denote different script types.
Oh man it is a million-dollar point I have not been aware of  So we need to communicate the xpubs between us or simply keep them in a shared location where is easily accessible, since I believe it is not a sensitive data, unless I am wrong. yeah or make a copy of the multisig wallet file which will contain all the xpubs. file > save backup in electrum will do that. there's a guide to making multisig wallets here: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/creating-a-multisig-wallet/ |
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