[ANNOUNCE] Electrum - Lightweight Bitcoin Client - page 49.

matthewh3

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Quote from: vuce on July 11, 2012, 06:13:11 PM

Quote from: matthewh3 on July 11, 2012, 05:43:51 PM

Quote from: vuce on July 11, 2012, 05:25:19 PM

Quote from: matthewh3 on July 11, 2012, 05:23:27 PM

I'm very new to electrum but I like it a lot. Like the mnemonic to restore your wallet Cool

but doesn't this always depend on the electrum servers operating?

No. You can always generate private keys from the seed (the mnemonic), as long as you have the source code of the generation process.

but that still depends on being able to download electrum no if you didn't save the source Huh

If it does maybe make the wallet into some kind or encrypted p2p for downloading the wallet So making electrum into a clone of the original wallet but instead of sharing the blockchain it shares the electrum wallet download.

If you have the client then you have the source. The possibility of it not being available online AND no one having a client anymore is practically zero. As for the rest of your post I don't understand what you're trying to say.

The rest of my post is about making the wallet act as a decentralised seed for downloading the client. Or at least every (or some) wallets act as torrent seed on on I2PSnark - (http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/06/anonymous-bittorrent-with-i2psnark/). So the ability to obtain an electrum client is taken away from central servers.

vuce

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Quote from: matthewh3 on July 11, 2012, 05:43:51 PM

Quote from: vuce on July 11, 2012, 05:25:19 PM

Quote from: matthewh3 on July 11, 2012, 05:23:27 PM

I'm very new to electrum but I like it a lot. Like the mnemonic to restore your wallet Cool

but doesn't this always depend on the electrum servers operating?

No. You can always generate private keys from the seed (the mnemonic), as long as you have the source code of the generation process.

but that still depends on being able to download electrum no if you didn't save the source Huh

If it does maybe make the wallet into some kind or encrypted p2p for downloading the wallet So making electrum into a clone of the original wallet but instead of sharing the blockchain it shares the electrum wallet download.

If you have the client then you have the source. The possibility of it not being available online AND no one having a client anymore is practically zero. As for the rest of your post I don't understand what you're trying to say.

matthewh3

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Quote from: vuce on July 11, 2012, 05:25:19 PM

Quote from: matthewh3 on July 11, 2012, 05:23:27 PM

I'm very new to electrum but I like it a lot. Like the mnemonic to restore your wallet Cool

but doesn't this always depend on the electrum servers operating?

No. You can always generate private keys from the seed (the mnemonic), as long as you have the source code of the generation process.

but that still depends on being able to download electrum no if you didn't save the source Huh

If it does maybe make the wallet into some kind or encrypted p2p for downloading the wallet So making electrum into a clone of the original wallet but instead of sharing the blockchain it shares the electrum wallet download.

vuce

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Quote from: matthewh3 on July 11, 2012, 05:23:27 PM

I'm very new to electrum but I like it a lot. Like the mnemonic to restore your wallet Cool

but doesn't this always depend on the electrum servers operating?

No. You can always generate private keys from the seed (the mnemonic), as long as you have the source code of the generation process.

matthewh3

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I'm very new to electrum but I like it a lot. Like the mnemonic to restore your wallet Cool

but doesn't this always depend on the electrum servers operating? Why not make the electrum wallet into a p2p network with all the privet back up keys distributed among the wallets instead of a server. If this takes up to much resource's for every wallet why not have a fee system set up of 0.0006 transactions fess so 0.0001 eaxtra and a private key recovery of 0.0006% fee of your holdings to be distributed amongst wallet network seed wallets. I could be wrong about my idea I'm very new to electrum but with needing a dedicated server to back up your wallet wouldn't using a decentralised p2p network instead of depending on the servers be a better idea Huh

Sorry if all of that just sounds like boulder-dash I'm new to electrum and just though depending on dedicated servers makes it vulnerable to attack and/or shutdown.

bitcats

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Any major changes in the new release (besides the lite gui)?

flatfly

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Yes, unfortunately, I am having some hosting issues at the moment. For now, please use the source distribution.

unclemantis

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(:firstbits => "1mantis")

Windows downloads link is down!
http://dre.tx0.org/elecwin.htm

ThomasV

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I uploaded 0.61 packages again.
It should work now.

ThomasV

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0.61 packages are now available (see previous announcement)

edit: sorry, the 0.61 package still has problems. the site links again to version 0.60

duncant

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I figured out how to replicate that bottom error. In the lite gui, click on the ### EUR to change it to USD. Then click on the "... and amount" text box.

duncant

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Some errors for you:

I clicked into the "Enter a bitcoin address..." box, then clicked the "Receive" button:

Code:

RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/duncant/electrum/lib/gui_lite.py", line 344, in focusOutEvent
if self.text() == "":
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded while calling a Python object

I also encountered this error, but I'm having trouble replicating it:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/duncant/electrum/lib/gui_lite.py", line 244, in amount_input_changed
amount = D(str(amount_text))
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/decimal.py", line 542, in __new__
if isinstance(value, basestring):
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in __instancecheck__

(I'm on a mac, in case you couldn't tell by the pathnames in the tracebacks)

ThomasV

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Quote from: Tuxavant on July 05, 2012, 12:39:55 PM

website still showing .60. Should I grab latest.tar.gz? .61? .62?

we're still working on the packages.
you can get it from git if you want to try it now

Tuxavant

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website still showing .60. Should I grab latest.tar.gz? .61? .62?

genjix

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OK those problems should've been fixed now.

Haplo

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Erm.. all of sudden I can't connect to any electrum servers. It keeps saying

Not connected
poking
Not connected
poking
Not connected
poking
Not connected
poking
Not connected
poking
Not connected
poking
Not connected
poking
Not connected
poking

and does nothing Huh

.

At first I thought it was because of old client, but upgrading to .59 or .60 doesn't change anything Undecided

rebel

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Just a follow-up and solution.

when one enters 'sudo pip install http://ecdsa.org/electrum/Electrum-latest.tar.gz' , it downloads the latest ver 0.61 which gives all those errors.
so I just entered instead :

sudo pip install http://ecdsa.org/electrum/Electrum-0.59b.tar.gz

and no more errors occurred.

Thank you ThomasV for holding on to previous versions! This is an excellent piece

rebel

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In ver 059b I was able to access my wallet on a Live-CD - a popup asked for the seeds and the wallet came up.
But in 061 I get error:
~$ electrum
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/electrum”, line 148, in
gui = gui.ElectrumGui(wallet)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/electrum/gui_lite.py”, line 36, in __init__
with open(“data/style.css”) as style_file:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘data/style.css’

I realize that the download probably was for 060 . But same error.

ThomasV

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sorry for the problems with the 0.61 package.
I made the Electrum webpage link to version 0.60 until this is resolved.

in the meantime, please use git if you want to test version 0.61

Lumpy

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Quote from: ben-abuya on July 03, 2012, 05:44:27 PM

Quote from: Tuxavant on July 03, 2012, 05:39:26 PM

Code:

$ electrum
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/electrum", line 148, in
gui = gui.ElectrumGui(wallet)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/electrum/gui_lite.py", line 36, in __init__
with open("data/style.css") as style_file:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'data/style.css'

I'm getting this too, on Ubuntu 12.04

Same, in Windows.

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