Im afraid that somone have gotten ahold of my personal pharaprase. And Im scared that they will get my personal transaktion information.
Bitcoin is decentralized and all transactions are recorded on the network, by miners and nodes, totally decentralized. You can not erase any of your transactions. Satoshi, the bitcoin creator can not.
Passphrase or password or seed, you need to distinguish them. It's important.
See 2 situations
- Password: simply change old password to a new one, that should be strong. Some people call wallet password as passphrase, example Bitcoin Core.
- Seed (fully called as mnemonic seed): If you lose seed, you lose that wallet. Hence, you must create a new wallet and move your fund to that new wallet as soon as possible. Or better make a sweep.
Some facts about Electrum:
- A non-custodial and Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) wallet.
- You have ful control on mnemonic seed (default or with extend seed).
- You don't have to create any Electrum account to use it.
- You only have to download legit Electrum wallet (not fake, phishing one) and install it on your devices (laptop, desktop, or mobiles).
- Backup mnemonic seed for later recovery on any device
Where to download Electrum wallet?
- There: https://electrum.org/#download
- To download it: Visit the website, click on the OS you want to use, and get link to download. Never search it on Google or Apple store/ Google Play (especially Goolge Play where you will find fake Electrum applications)
- To be safe, verify wallet
You should not believe me or anyone on download link. Verify it. When you have time, please read.
Developers warn people about importance of wallet verification.
Notes
- Desktop/ laptop: You need to have mnemonic seed + strong password for wallet file
- Mobile: You need to have mnemonic seed + PIN code
- Password or PIN code is second-layer protection for your seed. If you lose your seed, you lose your wallet and BTC
- How to Create a Strong/Secure Password
You also need to read
Electrum Documentation to understand the wallet. It is for old version of Electrum wallet but you can get basics and come here again to ask if don't understand something.
I just whant to delite it from the weeb but I have not managed to do it.
If you use block explorers to check your transactions, without Tor, your privacy will be collected by block explorer companies. You can not delete it from their databases. When you create a new wallet, and check your transactions from it, do it with
Tor browser