Hi I am a noob and I'm looking to download Electrum as i have heard this is the easiest and quickest wallet to have. Is this the case?
Also do you need funds to open a wallet as i wanted to get the wallet first and then buy some currency.
any reliable UK bitcoin sellers this forum can recommend?
Electrum is a pretty good and reliable wallet. It has a lot of coin controll features, so a user can actually learn a lot from using it.
If electrum is a bit to difficult to master, you could also start with multibit HD. It shields a new user from a lot of coin controll features, so it might initially be easyer to use, but once you actually start to learn, it might not be sufficient (imho). For example: you cannot chose which inputs will be used, you have no list of previously generated addresses,...
As for your question about wether or not you need to purchase BTC before running a wallet: no... You can easily start by creating a new wallet and only afterwards get some BTC.
A couple of important tips:
- if you chose to use electrum or multibit, make sure you write down the initial seed!
- make sure you chose a strong password
- make sure your pc is virus and malware free
There are several places where you can buy BTC... An example is:
https://localbitcoins.com/country/GBBut first, educate yourself about BTC and how to use localbitcoins, so you don't put yourself into any physical danger, and you lessen the chance of getting scammed.
