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Topic: Electrum upgrade with cold storage (Read 878 times)

legendary
Activity: 2002
Merit: 1040
January 26, 2016, 02:42:08 PM
#8
Good to know, thanks!
staff
Activity: 3500
Merit: 6152
January 26, 2016, 02:41:37 PM
#7
A late update.

Did the offline/cold system first.

1. Made a copy of the existing Electrum folder
2. Installed the newer version of Electrum
3. After install, verified password was recognized and seed was the same

4. Did the same thing on the online/watching-only system
5. Went through the transaction process and successfully sent a small transaction

6. Did the same process with Electrum-LTC




Just curious, how do you verify if the seed is the same?

It's possible to check the seed by going to wallet => seed (you enter the password to be able to see the seed otherwise you can't).
legendary
Activity: 2002
Merit: 1040
January 26, 2016, 02:23:22 PM
#6
A late update.

Did the offline/cold system first.

1. Made a copy of the existing Electrum folder
2. Installed the newer version of Electrum
3. After install, verified password was recognized and seed was the same

4. Did the same thing on the online/watching-only system
5. Went through the transaction process and successfully sent a small transaction

6. Did the same process with Electrum-LTC




Just curious, how do you verify if the seed is the same?
newbie
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
January 20, 2016, 04:49:54 AM
#5
A late update.

Did the offline/cold system first.

1. Made a copy of the existing Electrum folder
2. Installed the newer version of Electrum
3. After install, verified password was recognized and seed was the same

4. Did the same thing on the online/watching-only system
5. Went through the transaction process and successfully sent a small transaction

6. Did the same process with Electrum-LTC


copper member
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1528
No I dont escrow anymore.
January 05, 2016, 07:08:07 AM
#4
Do you really need to upgrade the cold one? As long as it can still sign transactions i dont really see the point?

Yes, you do. The old versions will create signatures that will not be relayed by the majority of the network nodes. AFAIK most of the electrum servers will also reject them. You can only change this behaviour by updating the offline wallet.
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
January 05, 2016, 06:10:13 AM
#3
Do you really need to upgrade the cold one? As long as it can still sign transactions i dont really see the point?
hero member
Activity: 619
Merit: 500
January 05, 2016, 05:32:45 AM
#2
Don't go online with you offline computer.

Either find a way to upgrade while staying offline or create the offline computer from scratch and recreate the Wacker from seed once the computer is offline.
newbie
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
January 04, 2016, 03:44:34 PM
#1
Is there a specific order that an upgrade from 1.9.8 to the Electrum latest version should be done in a cold storage implementation? Do I upgrade the offline system first or the online system? Or does it not matter?

I have the 1.98 wallet file backed up and I have the seed, so I'm assuming - based on what I've read - that I just install the new Electrum on each system.

Thanks
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