Topic: other electrum wallets are safe (Read 174 times)

No, they are not "electrum officers"...  as you yourself have already indicated here:
Official Electrum is BTC only... they DO NOT maintain or support ANY of the Electrum forks (Electron Cash, ElectrumG (BTG), Electrum-Dash, Electrum-LTC etc)


As long as you're downloading official versions of these wallets (and check the digital signatures and file hashes etc), you should be OK. To my knowledge, no-one who has used "official" versions of these wallets has had coins stolen because the wallet leaked seeds/keys. Generally they get stolen because of keyloggers, malware or users having been tricked into downloading and using fake versions of the wallets... or they do something dumb like enter their seed/private keys into a website to claim to try and claim fork coins.


There was a lot of fear and "fud" surrounding Bitcoin Cash and the various wallets released for it. Obviously, a lot of thieves saw an opportunity to steal a lot of BTC (and BCH) after the fork by tricking a lot of confused users into downloading scam wallets that stole seeds/private keys.

The initial release of Electron Cash did a REALLY stupid thing... and "copied" any existing Electrum wallet files found on the computer into the Electron Cash wallet folder... The idea was to make it "easy" for an Electrum user to get their BCH and it did NOT steal seeds/private keys, but it freaked a lot of people out and made a lot of people nervous.

Added to this, that Electron Cash was the only SPV wallet available for BCH... it was very popular with people wanting a quick easy way to get BCH... so it became a target for the scammers (just like Electrum)... there were a lot of fake Electron Cash websites setup that were distributing fake versions of the wallet designed to steal seeds/keys.


They can all be used on the same computer... they all use their own data directories, so do no interfere with each other. I have personally used:

- Electrum
- Electron Cash
- Electrum-ltc
- Electrum-dash
- ElectrumG

Electrum is open source and is written in Python and is under MIT license. here is the code: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum if you know how to use it, you can simply make a fork (copy) of the code and create your own wallet based on Electrum.
so many people have done it all these years. some of them have been scammers like this recent incident but also so many of these forks have been done by developers of other altcoins to  create an SPV wallet for their own altcoins. their safety however depends on their development. for example Electrum-ltc is developed by a different group https://github.com/pooler/electrum-ltc most of which are LTC developers.
in any case if you want to use any of these make sure to go to the official website of that altcoin (for example litecoin.org) and find the link to that wallet from there. and also make sure to read some feedback if you can find about that wallet.
i can vouch for Electrum-ltc only since that is the only thing i have used.

p.s. don't forget to verify their signatures.

I think they are not connected to electrum both electrum-dash and electrum-ltc is just an electrum fork wallet.

According to electrum-ltc page, they found a vulnerability in electrum and electrum-ltc, but they fixed it, so make sure if you wanted to use the electrum-ltc use the latest version or newly released so that you are far on vulnerability.

I also suggest you to ask more in their litecoin announcement thread for your safety.
Here's the link https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-litecoin-a-lite-version-of-bitcoin-launched-47417

I would use them as they have a reputation of being safe for a long time. But I can't personally guarantee that they can be trusted forever.

About Electron Cash, some people had doubts about it after its first launch, but I (and most part of the BCH community) have it installed in the same computer as my Electrum wallet and I never had any issues.

I havent tried to use it up but if we do try to make some search it is indeed legit ones but do have some past issues when it comes to invulnerability but i would suggest to download Litecoin core which you can find up download links on here https://litecoin.org/#download by the way Electrum litecoin is one of their suggested downloads too.

e seen that exists https://electrum.dash.org/
and https://electrum-ltc.org/
I would like to know if they are electrum officers and if they are safe

at https://electrum-ltc.org/ this is on your page
Electrum-LTC is a community-maintained port of Electrum, the Bitcoin wallet, to Litecoin. It is not an official product of Electrum Technologies GmbH, which does not support it

so I would like to know if they are safe or not

another is electroncash that is not official and has bad comments
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I would like to know if it can be used apart from electrum, electrum.dash and electrum-ltc in the same pc without problems?