I asked on the official topic however didn't got any answers , not accusing anyone of ignoring me but just saying maybe they didn't see it or didn't know the answer, so posting here for more visibility
I decided to Switch to Electrum lately since Bitcoin Core is screwing my RAM & CPU .
- Once I write the seed and in case I use it once , does the wallet stay seedable ? I mean I could recover the wallet many times till the end of the world ? over and over and over
- Is there is any chance on the Electrum icon
- What is the current version of the wallet ?
Yes, you can recover from the seed as often as you want.
Yes, the old icon had a black background IIRC.
Latest is 2.4
I see the icon like this and I don't remember seeing it like this at all before because I used to use Electrum on the past .
What's the latest wallet , in Github it says 2.4 version is the latest while on download on their download page I can only download 2.3.2 version (Windows) which makes me think if I'am downloading the real thing or not .
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/releases we can see that there is even 2.3.3 also
It sometimes takes a bit until the windows version is available. As long as you verify[1,2] the download you have the official version.
Also what is making me afraid is this page :
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES the Release notes says the following :
# Release 2.4
* Payment to DNS names storing a Bitcoin addresses (OpenAlias) is
supported directly, without activating a plugin. The verification
uses DNSSEC.
* The DNSSEC verification code was rewritten. The previous code,
which was part of the OpenAlias plugin, is vulnerable and should
not be trusted (Electrum 2.0 to 2.3).
* Payment requests can be signed using Bitcoin addresses stored
in DNS (OpenAlias). The identity of the requestor is verified using
DNSSEC.
* Payment requests signed with OpenAlias keys can be shared as
bitcoin: URIs, if they are simple (a single address-type
output). The BIP21 URI scheme is extended with 'name', 'sig',
'time', 'exp'.
* Arbitrary m-of-n multisig wallets are supported (n<=15).
* Multisig transactions can be signed with Trezor. When you create
the multisig wallet, just enter the xpub of your existing Trezor
wallet.
* Transaction fees set manually in the GUI are retained, including
when the user uses the '!' shortcut.
* New 'email' plugin, that enables sending and receiving payment
requests by email.
* The daemon supports Websocket notifications of payments.
Which makes me not trust the older version so is there is anyway or any link that I could get the latest version 2.4 from ? that would be epic .
One more question , how much adresses are generated ? If we use one it goes to the "Used" tab as fais as I know, once an adress goes there another is auto generated ? ty
Since python software does not need compiling you can use the "Installation from Python sources" for Windows instructions from their download page. AFAIK the only difference is that you have to create shortcuts and such yourself.
Besides that to my understanding of the problem is that its only an issue with aliases, e.g. if you request an address via alias like my.bitcoin.address.cc. More about that here[3].
Electrum by default generates 20 addresses, but there is no limit to the number of addresses that can be derived from the seed. Electrum will try its best to provide you a new address every time. Thus there should always be a fresh one under unused and it also uses a fresh one for change. You might however run into problems if you have over 10,000 addresses generated[4]. I dont think this is an issue for most though.
[1] PGP key:
https://bitcoin-otc.com/viewgpg.php?nick=ThomasV[2] signatures linked here
https://electrum.org/#download[3]
https://electrum.org/bitcoinaliases.pdf[4]
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/my-electrum-wallet-contains-over-17000-addresses-growing-am-i-in-trouble-1118697
I annoy most of people with my questions .
and for the latest version I may wait for the release because I don't want to screw things up .
