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

[losh11]

Is anyone here interested in an upgrade to the Electrum UI?
I will work on it (along with some others), and here's a bunch of early mockups.

Desktop





Android



Please keep in mind that this is the LTC version, but there are some changes made for the BTC mockups.
If there is any interest for this, I'll open up an issue on GitHub and eventually create a PR.

[losh11]

Fixed Images:

Desktop




Android

[satori65]

I don't understand how to send a payment from my electrum wallet, frankly i don't understand how to understand whats even in my wallet, i can see the balance, and i have sent a payment to a payment address, the payment sent has a green tick, but the payment sent is written in red, what dose this mean, the person i sent the payment to is saying he has not received the payment.

On top of this electrum dont have support which i find very unhelpful, the only help it offers is to send me here.

Can any one help me ? i would be very graetful you someone could best regards satori65

[ranochigo]

I don't understand how to send a payment from my electrum wallet, frankly i don't understand how to understand whats even in my wallet, i can see the balance, and i have sent a payment to a payment address, the payment sent has a green tick, but the payment sent is written in red, what dose this mean, the person i sent the payment to is saying he has not received the payment.

On top of this electrum dont have support which i find very unhelpful, the only help it offers is to send me here.

Can any one help me ? i would be very graetful you someone could best regards satori65

Are you using Electrum desktop version? The amount written in red means that its the amount that was deducted from your balance to create the transaction. If there is a tick, it should be confirmed.

Check the address on block explorers (blocktrail.com) and if the address sent to is correct. If there is the transaction when you search for it, its either your sent it to the wrong address or the receiver is having problem with their wallet/lying.

Create a separate topic for this.

[tanlucle]

----- NEED HELP PLEASE ------

my phone was stolen last week with the google authenticator on it, now when i try to send coins out of my electrum wallet it asks for the 2fa which i dont have, can someone help me on how i can take my coins out please ! is there a way or am i just shit out of luck, i dont have any of the pass phrases or whatever saved. all i have is my account and password =(

could someone email me the solution, i wont be on the forum often, thank you so much !!!

[OmegaStarScream]

----- NEED HELP PLEASE ------

my phone was stolen last week with the google authenticator on it, now when i try to send coins out of my electrum wallet it asks for the 2fa which i dont have, can someone help me on how i can take my coins out please ! is there a way or am i just shit out of luck, i dont have any of the pass phrases or whatever saved. all i have is my account and password =(

You won't be able to restore your wallet (and taking off the 2FA steps) unless you have the seed which you don't, I'm sorry but your funds are lost.

[tanlucle]

----- NEED HELP PLEASE ------

my phone was stolen last week with the google authenticator on it, now when i try to send coins out of my electrum wallet it asks for the 2fa which i dont have, can someone help me on how i can take my coins out please ! is there a way or am i just shit out of luck, i dont have any of the pass phrases or whatever saved. all i have is my account and password =(

You won't be able to restore your wallet (and taking off the 2FA steps) unless you have the seed which you don't, I'm sorry but your funds are lost.

fuck my life !!!! thanks man, whoever made 2fa needs to die. right now, hope he dies

[SebastianJu]

----- NEED HELP PLEASE ------

my phone was stolen last week with the google authenticator on it, now when i try to send coins out of my electrum wallet it asks for the 2fa which i dont have, can someone help me on how i can take my coins out please ! is there a way or am i just shit out of luck, i dont have any of the pass phrases or whatever saved. all i have is my account and password =(

You won't be able to restore your wallet (and taking off the 2FA steps) unless you have the seed which you don't, I'm sorry but your funds are lost.

Since it is a 2 of 3 shouldn't it be possible through trustedcoins? They should hold the third key. So password of wallet and their key should help if I understand it correctly. Not sure how it works.

And tanlucle, no, 2FA is a nice thing. You only didn't take care when you were told to backup the creation code, seed code, backup code or whatever it was named in that case. Your could have easily restored your 2fa entry with it.

[Abdussamad]

----- NEED HELP PLEASE ------

my phone was stolen last week with the google authenticator on it, now when i try to send coins out of my electrum wallet it asks for the 2fa which i dont have, can someone help me on how i can take my coins out please ! is there a way or am i just shit out of luck, i dont have any of the pass phrases or whatever saved. all i have is my account and password =(

You won't be able to restore your wallet (and taking off the 2FA steps) unless you have the seed which you don't, I'm sorry but your funds are lost.

Since it is a 2 of 3 shouldn't it be possible through trustedcoins? They should hold the third key. So password of wallet and their key should help if I understand it correctly. Not sure how it works.

They won't reveal their key just because you ask them for it. It would defeat the purpose of authenticating via 2fa if they just give up their key to anyone who asks for it.

And tanlucle, no, 2FA is a nice thing. You only didn't take care when you were told to backup the creation code, seed code, backup code or whatever it was named in that case. Your could have easily restored your 2fa entry with it.

Yep he should have written down the seed.

[SebastianJu]

----- NEED HELP PLEASE ------

my phone was stolen last week with the google authenticator on it, now when i try to send coins out of my electrum wallet it asks for the 2fa which i dont have, can someone help me on how i can take my coins out please ! is there a way or am i just shit out of luck, i dont have any of the pass phrases or whatever saved. all i have is my account and password =(

You won't be able to restore your wallet (and taking off the 2FA steps) unless you have the seed which you don't, I'm sorry but your funds are lost.

Since it is a 2 of 3 shouldn't it be possible through trustedcoins? They should hold the third key. So password of wallet and their key should help if I understand it correctly. Not sure how it works.

They won't reveal their key just because you ask them for it. It would defeat the purpose of authenticating via 2fa if they just give up their key to anyone who asks for it.

And tanlucle, no, 2FA is a nice thing. You only didn't take care when you were told to backup the creation code, seed code, backup code or whatever it was named in that case. Your could have easily restored your 2fa entry with it.

Yep he should have written down the seed.

It's a 2 of 3 so where are the keys? One is the password from the wallet the second is the 2FA code. Is that checked by trustedcoins so they give the key then? Where is the third key? I remember having read that trustedcoins can help in these cases but I'm not sure anymore who holds keys where.

[Abdussamad]

It's a 2 of 3 so where are the keys? One is the password from the wallet the second is the 2FA code. Is that checked by trustedcoins so they give the key then? Where is the third key? I remember having read that trustedcoins can help in these cases but I'm not sure anymore who holds keys where.

When you create a 2fa wallet you get two "keys" in the form of the seed mnemonic but only one of those two is saved in the wallet file. During normal day to day operation of the wallet you need trusted coin's cooperation to sign transactions. But if you wrote down the seed you can restore the wallet and then you won't need trusted coin's permission to spend your coins. At that point it ceases to be a 2FA wallet though.

[SebastianJu]

Did you answer something to me Adussamad? I do not see it if you did so.

[Abdussamad]

Did you answer something to me Adussamad? I do not see it if you did so.

Sorry I mucked up the post during editing

I've edited it again now so that my answer is there:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=100502.msg18792173#msg18792173

[Ale88]

Hi guys, I'd like to a have a clarification about Electrum: what do I exactly need to restore a wallet, besides the seed? Because some people say I only need the seed, other people say also a backup and the private key... 

[sirazimuth]

Not sure if this is correct thread for this question but here goes..
I'm trying to sweep private keys from a very old multi bit wallet into my just installed Electrum.
(I cant adjust fee in the old multi bit so coins are basically unsendable)
So i have dumped the keys from multibit.
I managed to get only one (out of about 20) to work. i swept it,broadcast, and funds showed up in electrum wallet.
All the rest of the keys i tried same process but gives me the message
"no inputs found, note inputs need to be confirmed".
one more thing... and the reason i'm doing this, i currently have a stuck transaction in my old multibit wallet that's unconfirmed
because of you guessed it...fee too low.  
Im suspecting this maybe reason private keys wont sweep into Electrum? IDK as I'm not good at this technical stuff.
I never thought it would be so complicated . I just want to transfer coins from an old wallet to a new.
Any help would be appreciated. thanx and great wallet btw

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

Hi guys, I'd like to a have a clarification about Electrum: what do I exactly need to restore a wallet, besides the seed? Because some people say I only need the seed, other people say also a backup and the private key... 

All you need is the seed but be careful as the format changed with Electrum 2.x

[aarons6]

Not sure if this is correct thread for this question but here goes..
I'm trying to sweep private keys from a very old multi bit wallet into my just installed Electrum.
(I cant adjust fee in the old multi bit so coins are basically unsendable)
So i have dumped the keys from multibit.
I managed to get only one (out of about 20) to work. i swept it,broadcast, and funds showed up in electrum wallet.
All the rest of the keys i tried same process but gives me the message
"no inputs found, note inputs need to be confirmed".
one more thing... and the reason i'm doing this, i currently have a stuck transaction in my old multibit wallet that's unconfirmed
because of you guessed it...fee too low.  
Im suspecting this maybe reason private keys wont sweep into Electrum? IDK as I'm not good at this technical stuff.
I never thought it would be so complicated . I just want to transfer coins from an old wallet to a new.
Any help would be appreciated. thanx and great wallet btw

there is no help, its telling you what you dont want to hear.. you must wait till the your tx confirms.

[sirazimuth]

Not sure if this is correct thread for this question but here goes..
I'm trying to sweep private keys from a very old multi bit wallet into my just installed Electrum.
(I cant adjust fee in the old multi bit so coins are basically unsendable)
So i have dumped the keys from multibit.
I managed to get only one (out of about 20) to work. i swept it,broadcast, and funds showed up in electrum wallet.
All the rest of the keys i tried same process but gives me the message
"no inputs found, note inputs need to be confirmed".
one more thing... and the reason i'm doing this, i currently have a stuck transaction in my old multibit wallet that's unconfirmed
because of you guessed it...fee too low.  
Im suspecting this maybe reason private keys wont sweep into Electrum? IDK as I'm not good at this technical stuff.
I never thought it would be so complicated . I just want to transfer coins from an old wallet to a new.
Any help would be appreciated. thanx and great wallet btw

there is no help, its telling you what you dont want to hear.. you must wait till the your tx confirms.

ha! thought so .damn . it was just weird that one key did sweep successfully.
 ok thanx  

edit...hey now! that stuck tx is finally confirming (24 hours) as i write.. sweet!!! (that viaBTC  thingy works a treat!)

[Ale88]

All you need is the seed but be careful as the format changed with Electrum 2.x

What do you mean "the format changed"? And why should I be careful? 

[TheButterZone]

All you need is the seed but be careful as the format changed with Electrum 2.x

What do you mean "the format changed"? And why should I be careful?  

The old Electrum seed format gives you a master public key without 'xpub' at the beginning. New Electrum seed format gives you a master public key with 'xpub' at the beginning. Either seed can be imported and work fine. Only the old seed format will let you import non-seed-determined private keys to your wallet.