Electrum - Bitcoin client for the common users (friendly and instant)

[Tachikoma]

Maybe you could involve flatfly in this project for helping to optimize it.

I've already extended this invitation to him, he has no development computer at the moment though

[ThomasV]

I have decided that I will no longer be leading the Electrum project.

Electrum has been a great experience, but things have been going very fast lately, and I do not have enough time to keep up with all the current developments.
My site (ecdsa.org/electrum) will redirect to electrum-desktop.com, which should be considered as the official website.

Thanks to genjix, we now have an active community of developers, so I am confident that this project will live its own life, and that my work will not die.
I want to thank all the developers and users who supported the project.
I wish you the best for the future.

[Nyhm]

Best wishes! It's good to see more clean/simple/easy-to-use clients in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

[genjix]

Thomas, you're always welcome. I realise that you are reducing your involvement to focus on other things more important to you. I respect when you told me about having responsibility as a scientist and how you were not doing science by developing Electrum. That's a really cool thing to have an identity that is associated with a noble pursuit of human knowledge.

Electrum is a fantastic piece of software, and you've left us lots of puzzle pieces that we must now assemble. I hope we carry the torch forwards and make it great and usable for not just Bitcoin users but the newcomers.

Hope you still stick around. At minimum, follow our progress. It was cool working with you, and I value your feedback.

< bitfoo> ThomasV: thanks for all the hard work, electrum is a great contribution to bitcoin
< bitfoo> *sniff*
< genjix> bitfoo: he'll be back for sure
< genjix> nobody leaves bitcoin
< bitfoo>

[unclescrooge]

Thomas, thanks for your wonderful work, you brought great value to the community

[minimalB]

Thomas, thanks for your wonderful work, you brought great value to the community

+1

[marcus_of_augustus]

Thanks ThomasV.

[John (John K.)]

Great thanks to ThomasV - you'll be missed badly. 
Electrum is awesome!

[tuaregssl]

Hello! How I can install electrum server in my CentOS 6.0 x32? Please step by step instructions.

[Tachikoma]

Hello! How I can install electrum server in my CentOS 6.0 x32? Please step by step instructions.

I think one of the dependencies needs a 64bit server (I thought it was Abe but I'm not sure). The instruction can be found here.

[bitfoo]

Hello! How I can install electrum server in my CentOS 6.0 x32? Please step by step instructions.

I think one of the dependencies needs a 64bit server (I thought it was Abe but I'm not sure). The instruction can be found here.

You can run the server on a 32-bit machine by following these additional instructions. Note that bitcoind must start downloading blocks from scratch after applying the patch in question.

[tuaregssl]

Thank you. I need install only https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.0 or https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.3 compatibility also?

[2weiX]

aloah,

i think the port is blocked in my office. too bad.
is there a simple way to bend the connection to port 80?

(and no, tunneling etc etc arent an option in my company)

[bitfoo]

Thank you. I need install only https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.0 or https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.3 compatibility also?

The patch in the repo is for 0.6.2. I've had a patch for 0.6.3 sitting in the merge request queue for a while now which you could use: https://gitorious.org/electrum/server/merge_requests/3

[Tachikoma]

aloah,

i think the port is blocked in my office. too bad.
is there a simple way to bend the connection to port 80?

(and no, tunneling etc etc arent an option in my company)

You could setup an Electrum server on port 80.

[2weiX]

aloah,

i think the port is blocked in my office. too bad.
is there a simple way to bend the connection to port 80?

(and no, tunneling etc etc arent an option in my company)

You could setup an Electrum server on port 80.

If I could and could and wanted to, I might - but I probably won't.
I was gonna be a user, not a provider :-D

So so far there isnt one is what you're saying.

[tuaregssl]

Thank you. I need install only https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.0 or https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tarball/v0.6.3 compatibility also?

The patch in the repo is for 0.6.2. I've had a patch for 0.6.3 sitting in the merge request queue for a while now which you could use: https://gitorious.org/electrum/server/merge_requests/3

I do not understand how to use it... sorry, english is not my native language. I have /src/electrum/server/patches/bitcoin-0.6.2.diff.

[tuaregssl]

'make -f makefile.unix' returned many an errors:

Code:

..........
net.h:284: error: Б─≤cs_vSendБ─≥ was not declared in this scope
net.h: In member function Б─≤void CNode::AbortMessage()Б─≥:
net.h:303: error: Б─≤cs_vSendБ─≥ was not declared in this scope
net.h: In member function Б─≤void CNode::EndMessage()Б─≥:
................

[Nyhm]

Maybe try VanillaWallet. It's not as fully-featured as Electrum (and still Alpha), but designed to be simple. Stick with Electrum if you're not comfortable with an early alpha wallet. Electrum is much more widely used/tested.

[bitfoo]

'make -f makefile.unix' returned many an errors:

Code:

..........
net.h:284: error: Б─≤cs_vSendБ─≥ was not declared in this scope
net.h: In member function Б─≤void CNode::AbortMessage()Б─≥:
net.h:303: error: Б─≤cs_vSendБ─≥ was not declared in this scope
net.h: In member function Б─≤void CNode::EndMessage()Б─≥:
................

genjix just merged my 0.6.3 patch into the new github repo for the electrum server: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-server - please try that one. Also let's move this discussion about the server into the thread meant for that.