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legendary
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Personally, I'd never give anyone any of my private keys unless they were from an isolated wallet I didn't use for any other purpose (which I'd then consider compromised for all intents and purposes).

Why do you consider it a risk to give out a single private key for a single address when you say its not risking the other addresses? Electrum wont use an already used addres out of its own. And new addresses should be safe.

No every address has its own private key and as far as i know they cannot be linked to other wallet in any way.

About the clams claiming trough just-dice.com. It is just plain stupid if you do that. I find it even tricky to do it trough the wallet. But only address which are filled at the time they get funded got their CLAMS and that was last year ago. Just send your btc's to a wallet which do not have unclaimed CLAMS before you claim your CLAMS.

I claimed then through just dice. It took some time because electrum isnt made for it but i found 6 + 10 addresses containing clams. I then imported these single private keys into jd. When youre right and the other addresses arent compromised then it should not be a problem isnt it?

Or do you speak about the amount of work? Yes, thats no fun but i wondered and though i should have a couple one. I think i found more than i awaited.

The wallets arent really used anymore but i still wonder why you still see a risk.
hero member
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a.k.a. gurnec on GitHub
No every address has its own private key and as far as i know they cannot be linked to other wallet in any way.

Please see the post I wrote a few minutes ago just above yours....
legendary
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No every address has its own private key and as far as i know they cannot be linked to other wallet in any way.

About the clams claiming trough just-dice.com. It is just plain stupid if you do that. I find it even tricky to do it trough the wallet. But only address which are filled at the time they get funded got their CLAMS and that was last year ago. Just send your btc's to a wallet which do not have unclaimed CLAMS before you claim your CLAMS.
hero member
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a.k.a. gurnec on GitHub
When you create a csv with the private keys, will you risk your whole wallet when you give a couple of these addresses, or their private keys, to another person? Could he guess or otherwise get to my other addresses and private keys?

Maybe.

Anyone who has a single private key and your master public key (from the same wallet) can compute the wallet's master private key (and therefore all of the other private keys). Keep in mind that your master public key is not encrypted in your wallet file, so gaining access to it is easier than gaining access to the encrypted master private key stored in your wallet file.

If all one has is a set of private keys from the same Electrum wallet, they cannot determine any other private keys.

Personally, I'd never give anyone any of my private keys unless they were from an isolated wallet I didn't use for any other purpose (which I'd then consider compromised for all intents and purposes).
legendary
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When you create a csv with the private keys, will you risk your whole wallet when you give a couple of these addresses, or their private keys, to another person? Could he guess or otherwise get to my other addresses and private keys? If so, why doesnt electrum simply create a single private key then?

I ask because of pos coins, like clams and their initial distribution. Some users import their clams into just-dice.com, by sending a command to the chat window.
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
Hello,
I try install new version of wallet but when I try open file I get this error :



I tried install windows installer too. After success installation I try open wallet and get same problem/error


If you don't have any BTC's
, you should try to go to %appdata%/Electrum and delete all the files you found there then try to Install again. I personally jumped from an old version to a newer one and all went fine when I deleted the file which was on AppData however I didn't got that error because I never launched the wallet before removing the AppData .
If you have BTC's and you are afraid to lose anything , then don't do what I said above ,I don't wanna be reponsible for any losses.

that's why you got the seed words. if you got them it doesn't matter what happens to your local data.

I know but I'am not sure when he got this error message , maybe he got it on the beggining so he didn't have the chance to get the seeds on the first place ?  Undecided However what you are saying does make sense , maybe he just got it when the wallet tried to upload
legendary
Activity: 1764
Merit: 1000
Hello,
I try install new version of wallet but when I try open file I get this error :



I tried install windows installer too. After success installation I try open wallet and get same problem/error


If you don't have any BTC's
, you should try to go to %appdata%/Electrum and delete all the files you found there then try to Install again. I personally jumped from an old version to a newer one and all went fine when I deleted the file which was on AppData however I didn't got that error because I never launched the wallet before removing the AppData .
If you have BTC's and you are afraid to lose anything , then don't do what I said above ,I don't wanna be reponsible for any losses.

that's why you got the seed words. if you got them it doesn't matter what happens to your local data.
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
Hello,
I try install new version of wallet but when I try open file I get this error :



I tried install windows installer too. After success installation I try open wallet and get same problem/error


If you don't have any BTC's
, you should try to go to %appdata%/Electrum and delete all the files you found there then try to Install again. I personally jumped from an old version to a newer one and all went fine when I deleted the file which was on AppData however I didn't got that error because I never launched the wallet before removing the AppData .
If you have BTC's and you are afraid to lose anything , then don't do what I said above ,I don't wanna be reponsible for any losses.
hero member
Activity: 938
Merit: 1000
Which versions specifically are you using? Releases are quite rapid at the moment.
legendary
Activity: 1288
Merit: 1000
Hello,
I try install new version of wallet but when I try open file I get this error :



I tried install windows installer too. After success installation I try open wallet and get same problem/error
newbie
Activity: 55
Merit: 0
When someone picks hardware wallet shouldn't it make "Restore or import wallet" unselected? People will pick it and input their Trezor seed into the wizard. I think selecting "New" and "Standard wallet" with provisions to accept a Trezor seed are probably safer. Or more warning they are losing hardware security in the wizard on the screen where the user types in the Trezor seed.

I agree. It needs to be obvious to the user what is happening.

Trezor signs the transactions, not Electrum.  Electrum doesn't need to know the seed words of the Trezor.  



With a Trezor wallet on mytrezor.com all set up I load Electrum. I'm given a choice of "Create New wallet" or "Restore wallet" while selecting "Hardware wallet", it might not be obvious to everyone what one to pick if I want to use my already set up Trezor. If I pick restore it asks for the seed words to be entered. I think I've seen on other places people picking restore and confused why it was asking for the seed words. It might make it easy for people to make mistakes with their backup seed.
legendary
Activity: 1762
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When someone picks hardware wallet shouldn't it make "Restore or import wallet" unselected? People will pick it and input their Trezor seed into the wizard. I think selecting "New" and "Standard wallet" with provisions to accept a Trezor seed are probably safer. Or more warning they are losing hardware security in the wizard on the screen where the user types in the Trezor seed.

I agree. It needs to be obvious to the user what is happening.
newbie
Activity: 55
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When someone picks hardware wallet shouldn't it make "Restore or import wallet" unselected? People will pick it and input their Trezor seed into the wizard. I think selecting "New" and "Standard wallet" with provisions to accept a Trezor seed are probably safer. Or more warning they are losing hardware security in the wizard on the screen where the user types in the Trezor seed.
legendary
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This version for OSX does not work! Please fix the error asap.
legendary
Activity: 2674
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Great, yesterday i checked for new versions and today one came out. I hope it includes the speed optimizations already.

Edit: Its fast! Thanks a lot! Smiley The version number shows a major change.
legendary
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legendary
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So what is the process to re claim your old wallet if say your computer crashes and all your files were deleted?

sounds unrealistic. What failure would have caused this?

For example a fire in your house.

Whatever happens all you need is your seed.  The joy of Electrum Smiley

I have my seeds saved in several secure locations so no matter what happens my btc are safe.  Even when I die.

sr. member
Activity: 349
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The error message from C++ Runtime Library still exists in electrum 2.0.4.

R6034 An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly.

This happened with 2.0.3 too. The error message shows up every time i start an electrum wallet.

I have this exact same message in Windows with 2.0.4...
legendary
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The error message from C++ Runtime Library still exists in electrum 2.0.4.

R6034 An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly.

This happened with 2.0.3 too. The error message shows up every time i start an electrum wallet.
legendary
Activity: 3920
Merit: 2349
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So what is the process to re claim your old wallet if say your computer crashes and all your files were deleted?

sounds unrealistic. What failure would have caused this?
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