Easy to use portable Bitcoin client

[dystopiandrift]

Wow. Drama up in here.  Anyway! Electrum is awesome. I have it running on my rooted motoactv. bitcoin wallet on my wrist! yeah! Now I need a bluetooth camera or figure out how to get usb OTG support in the kernel so I can attach a usb camera, that way I can send coins as well as receive them.

I totally agree that bitcats should be working closer with the electrum people and stop dropping bins in the wild like that tho. Not really cool IMHO. I mean, yeah, providing something that once was not is good.
Maybe if it was a video game or something that was not dealing with MONEY! The possibility of someone giving you a cool new wallet with a hidden worm-hole that can suck all your funds at any point in time is just to heavy for me to trust anything like that from 'bill's upload service'. you know?

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[finkleshnorts]

Ideally there needs to be some kind of bitcoin software source/checksum volunteer auditing board.

[manicminer]

Download: http://ge.tt/9YXEDNV/v/0

Chrome says it's malicious. Never said it before.

[John (John K.)]

I would recommend users to just get the binary from electrum.org and add the batch files themselves.

[manicminer]

Download: http://ge.tt/9YXEDNV/v/0

Is there a more easy to remember download link to your app than in an obscured newbie thread (with not even Electrum in the title)? Can you get a mention (a link) from the official site?

Are there any plans for a release in the PortableApps format? http://portableapps.com/development/portableapps.com_format

[Stn]

I just loaded and launched the client on Windows. It works but I really confused where is the wallet file located? Searched all the disk no avail. Documentation states: "Your default wallet is located in your user account." What is the heck "user account"?

[manicminer]

I just loaded and launched the client on Windows. It works but I really confused where is the wallet file located? Searched all the disk no avail. Documentation states: "Your default wallet is located in your user account." What is the heck "user account"?

Isn't it located in your Electrum directory?

[Stn]

This was the first place I'd expect to find it. But none. Just lonely electrum-1.6.1.exe file.

[bitcats]

The portable client creates a subfolder in the parent folder - its called SubDirectory. There you should find the electrum.dat.
When you start the client the first time, it asks you to create or restore a wallet - you have to be online for that. Once the wallet is created, you can go offline and use all the functions, incl importing and removing own addresses.

Note: Firewall configurations may interfere with the client.

[Stn]

I want to move wallet to the certain location. I even found parameters how to specify my custom location. But where the bloody wallet was created at the first place?

I'm talking about official standalone application.

[bitcats]

I'm talking about official standalone application.

This is the portable electrum thread.

[dpcman]

Sorry, newbie here. What should I do if I wanted to transfer my data from the Official Bitcoin wallet to this one?

[bitcats]

Sorry, newbie here. What should I do if I wanted to transfer my data from the Official Bitcoin wallet to this one?

Its easy: Start the portable client offline. It creates a "SubDirectory" with a few files in it. Close the client. Copy your electrum.dat (=wallet) in that subfolder. Voilà

[MusX]

is it open source?

[tnkflx]

Sorry, newbie here. What should I do if I wanted to transfer my data from the Official Bitcoin wallet to this one?

You should start by using an official Electrum client

[btcven]

Sorry, newbie here. What should I do if I wanted to transfer my data from the Official Bitcoin wallet to this one?

You should start by using an official Electrum client

electrum.org

Good to see people who cares about Open Source software.

[RippleAway]

I don't understand what is the benefit of downloading this if on the official site there's already a portable app to be downloaded. Are you re-hosting it? building it yourself?

There is a standalone executable on the official site, but no portable client. Thats why I've made this portable version of the client. It contains the official standalone executable from slush. You can download and compare both versions.
I made this version for my own use, as I like the electrum client and I prefer portable apps. As there is no other portable client available yet, I decided to share it 

How about a brief tutorial how to make your own portable version. Then people can download from the official page and patch it portable themselves.

[Tachikoma]

I will build an official portable version later this week.

[gbh]

Many thanks, been looking for an offline/usb client for a while.

[michaelg]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I ran Electrum-1.7.2-portable.exe and it created some (settings?) files inside C:\Users...
That's not what I expect from a portable app, it should be all contained in the same folder as the executable.