Electrum

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Long-standing Python-based Bitcoin wallet with good security features. Private keys are encrypted and do not touch the internet and balance is checked with a watch-only wallet. Compatible with other wallets, so there is no tie-in, and funds can be recovered with your secret seed. It supports proof-checking to verify transactions using SPV, multi-sig, and add-ons for compatibility with hardware wallets. A decentralized server indexes ledger transactions, meaning it's fast and doesn't require much disk space. The potential security issue here would not be with the wallet, but rather your PC - you must ensure your computer is secure and your wallet has a long, strong passphrase to encrypt it with.

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Electrum Source Code

Author

spesmilo

Description

Electrum Bitcoin Wallet

#bitcoin#bitcoin-wallet#electrum#lightning#lightning-network#python

Homepage

https://electrum.org

License

MIT

Created

02 Aug 12

Last Updated

29 Apr 24

Latest version

seed_v10

Primary Language

Python

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59,636 KB

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7,103

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2,979

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Recent Commits

  • SomberNight (29 Apr 24)

    constants: add some more type hints

  • ThomasV (28 Apr 24)

    Merge pull request #9029 from goodmost/master jade.py: fix some typos

  • goodmost (28 Apr 24)

    jade.py: fix some typos Signed-off-by: goodmost <[email protected]>

  • SomberNight (25 Apr 24)

    network: re-detect is_proxy_tor every time we connect to a server This avoids some false negatives for is_proxy_tor. (previously we only set is_proxy_tor when the proxy settings were changed) In particular, consider scenario: - Tor browser not running - user sets "localhost:9150" as proxy - detection sets network.is_proxy_tor to False - user starts Tor browser - network, due to retries, finds proxy working and connects to some servers - network.is_proxy_tor remains False

  • ThomasV (24 Apr 24)

    Merge pull request #9020 from SomberNight/202404_bitstring2 dependencies: remove bitstring

  • SomberNight (24 Apr 24)

    lnworker: add_peer: no DNS lookup if a proxy is set, to avoid a DNS-leak closes https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/9002

  • SomberNight (24 Apr 24)

    dependencies: remove bitstring - `bitstring` started depending on `bitarray` in version 4.1 [0] - that would mean one additional dependency for us (from yet another maintainer), which is not even pure python - we only use bitstring for bolt11-parsing - hence this PR rewrites the bolt11-parsing and removes `bitstring` as dependency - note: I benchmarked lndecode using [1], and the new code performs better, taking around 80% time needed for old code (when using bitstring 3.1.9, pure python). Though the variance is quite large in both cases. [0]: https://github.com/scott-griffiths/bitstring/blob/95ee533ee4040b4480da1ead548eab2459e8e573/release_notes.txt#L108 [1]: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/commit/d7597d96d0c336838adb32e3e175d3ea6f9763e8

  • Sander van Grieken (24 Apr 24)

    qml: lightning invoice status can be one of onchain invoice states when using fallback address. (fixes #9018)

  • Sander van Grieken (24 Apr 24)

    qt: normalize wallet path before lookup in window list

  • SomberNight (19 Apr 24)

    win build: remove deprecated apt-key for winehq key ``` Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8)). ``` from https://github.com/Electron-Cash/Electron-Cash/commit/5b40744831f367d800f7832d89375991374af142

  • SomberNight (19 Apr 24)

    win build: update debian base (11->12), and wine

  • ghost43 (19 Apr 24)

    Merge pull request #9003 from robertmin2/master AppArmor Profiles for Electrum Tarball and AppImage

  • robertmin2 (11 Apr 24)

    AppArmor Profiles for Electrum AppArmor Profiles for Electrum

  • ghost43 (19 Apr 24)

    Merge pull request #9013 from SomberNight/202404_build build: update bundled python version

  • SomberNight (19 Apr 24)

    win/mac build: bump pyinstaller (5.13.2->6.6.0)

  • SomberNight (18 Apr 24)

    win/mac build: bump pyinstaller (5.11.0->5.13.2) - needed for bumping python version, as 3.11+ is borked without https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/7692 - plugin.py: adapt to pyinstaller 5.12+ loader was renamed in https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/commit/b9111db8a869dd19dd7e8b3c952abea3238d02a6

  • SomberNight (18 Apr 24)

    win/mac build: bump python version (3.10.11->3.11.9)

  • SomberNight (18 Apr 24)

    appimage build: bump python version (3.10.13->3.11.9)

  • SomberNight (17 Apr 24)

    android build: bump python version (3.8.18->3.10.14) cffi also had to be updated for this, and corresponding commit backported from upstream p4a

  • SomberNight (18 Apr 24)

    follow-up plugins changes: fix qml gui follow-up https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/8713 ``` 1.35 | E | __main__ | daemon.run_gui errored Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/user/wspace/electrum/./run_electrum", line 458, in handle_cmd d.run_gui() File "/home/user/wspace/electrum/electrum/daemon.py", line 623, in run_gui self.gui_object = gui.ElectrumGui(config=self.config, daemon=self, plugins=self._plugins) File "/home/user/wspace/electrum/electrum/util.py", line 482, in do_profile o = func(*args, **kw_args) File "/home/user/wspace/electrum/electrum/gui/qml/__init__.py", line 82, in __init__ self.app = ElectrumQmlApplication(sys.argv, config=config, daemon=daemon, plugins=plugins) File "/home/user/wspace/electrum/electrum/gui/qml/qeapp.py", line 428, in __init__ self.plugins.load_plugin('trustedcoin') File "/home/user/wspace/electrum/electrum/plugin.py", line 269, in load_plugin raise Exception(f"could not find plugin {name!r}") Exception: could not find plugin 'trustedcoin' ```

  • SomberNight (18 Apr 24)

    plugin: load_plugin: better exception msg if not found

  • fuyangpengqi (18 Apr 24)

    chore: fix some typos in comments (#9014) Signed-off-by: fuyangpengqi <[email protected]>

  • ThomasV (18 Apr 24)

    test_lnpeer: fix node_id in storage of created peers

  • ThomasV (18 Apr 24)

    Merge pull request #9011 from momantech/master Fix some comments

  • SomberNight (17 Apr 24)

    follow-up prev

  • SomberNight (17 Apr 24)

    exchange_rate: historical rates: merge old+new data, don't overwrite - CoinGecko restricted its historical API to last 365 days - we used to ask for, and get, the whole history, but now we can only ask for the last year - so change HTTP request to only ask for 365 days - we cache historical rates to disk - previously we used to overwrite what is already stored, with the newly obtained data - now this is changed so that we merge the new data into the already stored data

  • momantech (17 Apr 24)

    Fix some comments Signed-off-by: momantech <[email protected]>

  • ThomasV (17 Apr 24)

    Merge pull request #9010 from accumulator/dont_dns_resolve_tor lnworker: don't query DNS for .onion hosts (fixes #9002)

  • Sander van Grieken (16 Apr 24)

    lnworker: don't query DNS for .onion hosts (fixes #9002)

  • ThomasV (16 Apr 24)

    Merge pull request #9008 from CoolCu/master chore: fix some typos in comments

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