Hello, I downloaded and installed the Elecrum wallet, bought some bitcoins and sent them to the Electrum wallet bitcoin address, but the wallet won't connect!! Have I lost my bitcoins?
I have added an acception for my wallet in windows firewall, it is not blocked, I have followed the online instructions on connecting to differrent servers and tried many but I still got no connection, light is always red.
Can anyone help?
What version of Electrum are you using? You certain that you have the latest version, and that it is genuine? (Check checksum?)
I believe that it could be that older versions will no longer work/connect properly, due to the exploits that they have (RPC unlocked, & malware/phishing spreading through certain third party servers(?)),
Are you also 100% certain that your firewall, perhaps your ISP isn't blocking any connections?
This seems like a good suggestion;
This sometimes happens to me, but it's not a windows OS issue or malware. Changing DNS might solve your issue because it solved my Electrum connection issue.
Here is what I do, I change my DNS to OpenDNS "208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220" or Google DNS"8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4" this time after changing my DNS I open CMD and type "ipconfig /release" then "ipconfig /renew" after that open your electrum again.
You can also try to use a VPN to unblock or bypass any restricted connection.
Check the entire thread for things that it could be.
EDIT: seems like the servers might be under DDOS attack. Be wary of that too.