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Electrum Bitcoin Wallet

21 mentions on Hacker News by 20 people: 6 stories, 15 comments · first 2013-10-01 · latest 2024-03-16

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  1. …is extremely slow, times out / errors out regularly - very annoying. See also e.g. https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/8496 for complaints (but it's pretty apparent once you integrate this in your builds).
    comment by janjongboom · 2024-03-16 · in Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
  2. …older than 3.3.4 are susceptible to phishing (links to [0]) 3.3.4 was released 2019-02-13 [1] [0] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/4968 [1] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/releases?after=3.3.6
    comment by crtasm · 2021-08-28 · in I Just Lost 1,400 BTC (2020)
  3. Nope: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qcygs9dl4pqw6atc4y... Address mentioned here: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecommen...
    comment by spurgu · 2020-08-31 · in I just lost 1,400 BTC
  4. …the update which immediately triggered the transfer of my entire balance to a scammers address. [1] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecommen...
    comment by willemlabu · 2020-08-31 · in I just lost 1,400 BTC
  5. Here is the original github issue: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecommen... And here is the transaction: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/ef600c380a239d9b9...
    comment by ca98am79 · 2020-08-31 · in 1400 Bitcoins stolen after a user installed an old Electrum wallet
  6. …use but don't trust them with big amounts. EDIT: Seems that's already been discussed in the issue: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/4968#issuecommen...
    comment by leppr · 2018-12-27 · in Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets
  7. https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/4968 This bug is absolutely atrocious: who decided that displaying error messages (with rendered HTML!) from untrusted third-party servers was a good idea? It's a shame since SPV wallets are a…
    comment by pera · 2018-12-27 · in Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets
  8. …looks more legit than the legit link. FAKE link: hxxxs://github.com/electrum-wallet LEGIT link: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum
    comment by 21 · 2018-12-27 · in Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets
  9. The related GitHub issue: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/4968
    comment by sjaak · 2018-12-27 · in Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets
  10. …performing air-gapped communication for signing Bitcoin transactions [1] on an offline machine. [1] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/964
    comment by roman_zeyde · 2018-06-17 · in Audio Modem Communication Library in Python
  11. Electrum verifies signatures offline ( https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/5ae2f30fa52ebcec37... ). So the `fake server` theory is wrong.
    comment by alcio · 2016-05-02 · in Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto
  12. Indeed. I was also surprised to find this out given how popular Electrum is. The code is here: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/lib/blockch... and https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/lib/blockch... One could…
    comment by sysk · 2015-07-05 · in Many Bitcoin wallets vulnerable to double-spending of confirmed transactions
  13. …of the current block). A chain's total work must be calculated and stored locally by clients. https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/lib/blockch...
    comment by sysk · 2015-07-05 · in Many Bitcoin wallets vulnerable to double-spending of confirmed transactions
  14. …source project with open issues on GitHub? Sounds like a good first step would be a pull request! https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum
    comment by j_s · 2013-11-01 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2013)
  15. …www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099... [1]: https://labelectrum.herokuapp.com/ [1]: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/plugins/lab... [2] https://www.b1txr.com/
    comment by atweiden · 2013-10-01 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2013)