Does Electrum suffer from transaction malleability?

[franl]

I see that Gavin just modified the Bitcoin-QT client to label malleated transactions as "conflicted" (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3669). How does Electrum deal with conflicting unconfirmed transactions?
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Fran

[btcven]

AFAIK ThomasV said in #electrum that it doesn't

[ThomasV]

it does to some extent, see
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=459002.0

[btcven]

To clarify, from the linked thread: be careful with subsequent transactions and automatic payments made with Electrum for now.

[lilphilog]

To clarify, from the linked thread: be careful with subsequent transactions and automatic payments made with Electrum for now.

Man thats kind of scary, should i switch to bitcoin qt and send all of my btc from my electrum to the new bitcoin wallet ?

[Abdussamad]

To clarify, from the linked thread: be careful with subsequent transactions and automatic payments made with Electrum for now.

Man thats kind of scary, should i switch to bitcoin qt and send all of my btc from my electrum to the new bitcoin wallet ?

All bitcoin clients are affected by the bug. All you have to do is wait for confirmation after you've made a transaction before you make another transaction.

[lilphilog]

To clarify, from the linked thread: be careful with subsequent transactions and automatic payments made with Electrum for now.

Man thats kind of scary, should i switch to bitcoin qt and send all of my btc from my electrum to the new bitcoin wallet ?

All bitcoin clients are affected by the bug. All you have to do is wait for confirmation after you've made a transaction before you make another transaction.

Ohhh ok, thanks for the heads up

[woss.cr]

To clarify, from the linked thread: be careful with subsequent transactions and automatic payments made with Electrum for now.

Man thats kind of scary, should i switch to bitcoin qt and send all of my btc from my electrum to the new bitcoin wallet ?

All bitcoin clients are affected by the bug. All you have to do is wait for confirmation after you've made a transaction before you make another transaction.

But isn't it true that if a transaction is modified once might never get a transaction confirmation? If the modified transaction gets confirmed the original never will be as it'll be considered double spending?

[Abdussamad]

But isn't it true that if a transaction is modified once might never get a transaction confirmation? If the modified transaction gets confirmed the original never will be as it'll be considered double spending?

Only the transaction ID can be modified. Not the inputs nor the outputs. The coins are always going to go where you intended them to go. So just wait for confirmation and you'll be ok.

[bazzanii]

To clarify, from the linked thread: be careful with subsequent transactions and automatic payments made with Electrum for now.

Man thats kind of scary, should i switch to bitcoin qt and send all of my btc from my electrum to the new bitcoin wallet ?

All bitcoin clients are affected by the bug. All you have to do is wait for confirmation after you've made a transaction before you make another transaction.

That's true, every client sometimes face to this problem and this is the best recommendation I've heard