Topic: [ANNOUNCE] Electrum - Lightweight Bitcoin Client - page 14. (Read 274562 times)

Oh... doesnt sound good... I mean who knows what those data could be useful for if such a electrum server gets hacked or seized. And the server operator could see it all the time. The same goes for the plugin server.

So its possible to identify the complete wallet, addresses, transactions and property of a certain user only by finding one hint. I dont like thinking about this and im a bit angry why i didnt think about this earlier.

I thought it would be better to create a new wallet and a new plugin account with new email sometimes. But now i think using electrum is a risk in itself. You need to trust every server provider (when using auto connect, which is the standard) and you need to hope the server nor the plugin server gets hacked. Sounds a bit risky. The coins cant be stolen but it sounds still too much for me.

Yes.


I believe that data is encrypted before being sent to the server.

edit: see  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/online-label-syncing-plugin-in-electrum-17-154144

What does the server see? I mean in case someone looks at the server data can he see all the addresses that are connected to one wallet?

Though i guess the label sync plugin should be able to provide the same data, even for more than one wallet when using the same plugin website login.

i need to sign a message and having difficulty- maybe some kind person could refresh my memory
the address i want to sign a message from is in my watching only wallet (1.9.6)- and when i right click there is no 'sign message ' in the context menu. the offline wallet has this option but the address is not listed . How do i proceed? do i need to get the address into the offline wallet? and how do i do that?

Thanks a lot

Got a quick question:
I tried to install electrum on Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) with the installation instructions given here: https://electrum.org/download.html - It didn't work. I got some error back which I don't remember. It used to work with Ubuntu 12.04 with the same instructions.
Now I could download electrum via the Ubuntu Software Center. But this is not most recent version. Is that one safe still (open ssl, any other security relevant issues?)?

sudo pip install --pre https://download.electrum.org/Electrum-1.9.8.tar.gz#md5=e3918fec0254267f08e41a1fb8691382

I like and use Electrum often but now i nearly made a big error that partly is because of Electrum's behaviour to redraw the lists and put you on the first line again. (Breaking label writing and so on in the same step.)

I wanted to send 4 bitcoins to my smartphone. I had a contact with a label in my electrum. I searched the contact, only one label to see on the screen, and must have looked away shortly, i clicked the only address that had a label on the screen and sent since i believed when i used "send to" it has to be the correct address.

Unfortunately it didnt reach the target. I checked the transaction and did not find out what address i sent to. I thought maybe i had a virus that changed an address in clipboard but when i checked blockchain i sent a transaction to it a year ago. Luckily it was the address of a friend that had a label "Friend Test". So i could get the 4BTC back now.

I know its my fault too to not check more carefully though i didnt thought in that moment about the possibility that electrum could change the screen i see. So i used the address that was the only one with a label like the page was where i searched the address before.

I really would like to see Electrum mature here and have a more user friendly updating procedure. Its the first time it could have done harm now but it was work before too often enough. Writing labels... update... searching the address again, writing label again. Or when checking transactions to find anything. I have thousands of transactions and its extremely annoying to go through the list and... youre at the start again. Now try to find where you were and hope that it not updates before you can search a bit more.