Topic: Electrum 2.9 was released today (Read 1504 times)

Always amazes me how people rather spend the time to go to a forum, find the right thread, type up a question and then wait hours for a reply ... rather spend a few seconds to just look in the most obvious place, like "Settings".

ah...hahaha
thnk you very much

You will have to create a new wallet, select "Two Factor Authentication"... then read all the information about how it works, and how much it costs! 2FA is NOT a free service... more info here: https://api.trustedcoin.com/#/electrum-help

Did you try looking in the settings? Specifically: "Tools -> Preferences -> Appearance" You'll want to change the Base Unit to BTC

hi
how to change from standart to 2fa?
and how to change the appearence , 0.123 BTC but it appear 123 ...thanks

Just seen the 2.9, thank you thomas for this!

The APK link on the Electrum site https://electrum.org/#download leads to:

Not Found
The requested URL /2.9.0/Electrum-2.9.0.0.apk was not found on this server.

Please also see my question in the Android thread.

I'm using the v2.8.3 will it be stable and compatibile with the blockchain split?
Will I see the BCC in my wallet or how these thing will go, should I upgrade to v2.9?
Sorry for these question but haven't found yet any info about this recently.

Hi ThomasV could you please explain those hits in electrum wallet https://www.virustotal.com/pl/file/d584118028972d64a39674c76789819fb884da1a017642d9e305351f2793d4bd/analysis/1501419900/  and this
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/electrum-contains-trojan-2051338

you don't have to do it before the fork but it's a good idea to keep up with updates because they include new features and bug fixes.

Im using electrum 2.8.3.


Does this need to be downloaded before the bitcoin fork?

Thanks mate.
There is a folder "electrum_data" I moved it and it asked me for a new seed.

Thank you again!!!

your wallet file should be in the same folder as the portable executable file. move, rename or delete it. then run electrum portable again and it'll show the new wallet creation wizard.

your coins will be safe in electrum even after segwit activation. you don't have to do anything other than noting down the new seed. setting a password is good too.

I have electrum portable version but never used it to deposit coins.
I have the seed and password but I want to have a fresh one.
How can I completely remove it and get a new seed?

Also, if I deposit coins to portable electrum will they be safe after SegWit etc ?
Will I need to do anything other than just sending the coins and setup a password?

Thanks

THAT is easily the best thing you've done with this release... that is going to save a LOT of people a LOT of frustration... I've been helping a lot of people recently with the dreaded "Password did not unlock the wallet" error with MultiBit HD...

Until now, the only compatible wallets were "Breadwallet" and "Simple Bitcoin Wallet" (both wallets for mobile phones!!)... However, this feature is going to make it stupidly easy for them to regain access to their coins (and get introduced to the awesomeness that is Electrum) in one easy step!

You've said in the past that bip39 support in electrum could not be guaranteed. I thought that meant it was a deprecated feature. Yet here you've added support for custom derivation paths when using bip39 seed mnemonics so does that mean that bip39 support will not be dropped in future?

Unfortunately apk file not available on download page. Will be appreciated for checking.

Thank you, Thomas!

Thank you for updating this great wallet.

Man this code is looking slick.  The "send only confirmed coins" might save a few folks.

Preferences -- > Transactions -- > send only confirmed coins "checked".  Nice!

We are all so grateful for your hard work in keeping Electrum up-to-date and all the improvements. You rock.

Release Notes:

# Release 2.9 - Independence (July 27th, 2017)
  * Multiple Chain Validation: Electrum will download and validate
    block headers sent by servers that may follow different branches
    of a fork in the Bitcoin blockchain. Instead of a linear sequence,
    block headers are organized in a tree structure. Branching points
    are located efficiently using binary search. The purpose of MCV is
    to detect and handle blockchain forks that are invisible to the
    classical SPV model.
  * The desired branch of a blockchain fork can be selected using the
    network dialog. Branches are identified by the hash and height of
    the diverging block. Coin splitting is possible using RBF
    transaction (a tutorial will be added).
  * Multibit support: If the user enters a BIP39 seed (or uses a
    hardware wallet), the full derivation path is configurable in the
    install wizard.
  * Option to send only confirmed coins
  * Qt GUI:
    - Network dialog uses tabs and gets updated by network events.
    - The gui tabs use icons
  * Kivy GUI:
    - separation between network dialog and wallet settings dialog.
    - option for manual server entry
    - proxy configuration
  * Daemon: The wallet password can be passed as parameter to the
    JSONRPC API.
  * Various other bugfixes and improvements.