Electrum in Trisquel 7
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Has anyone else had trouble with the Electrum Wallet in Trisquel 7?
Even though I was careful in copying the seed and password for the wallet, it now will not accept the password and the seed does not re-create the wallet as it's supposed to. It produces different addresses with zero balance.
If someone else told me they had these symptoms I would be suspicious that they had confused that seed & password with a different wallet they had previously created and were just mistaken. The problem is that I am 100% certain that the seed and password I wrote down were in fact the ones I had when I created this wallet.
There was an update of "python-electrum" that I ran recently so It's possible that Electrum had some regression bug or something. However, I booted a liveCD without any updates applied and the version of electrum that ships with the default ISO didn't work either.
Unless I can brute-force this wallet, I seem to have lost $120 or so in Bitcoin. That's what's hard to take.
Has anyone else had any problems with the Electrum wallet in T7?
P.S.: The moral of the story... Make sure you export your private keys BEFORE you trust the addresses created by any program, even if you believe you have the passwords, etc. Transfer a few millibits around between your Electrum addresses before you trust them.
If you copied the wallet from a previous version of Electrum, could you go back and restore it with that version?
By the way, if you could brute-force the wallet, would you want to use it in the future? It wouldn't be secure. XD
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Version: I'll give it a try with a previous version. Thanks for the idea.
Key: I realize that's true about brute-forcing the key and I definitely agree.
I should've specified that I have an approximation of the kind of things I would do in a password and that might narrow the scope of the search to the degree that it might cost less in electricity than the Bitcoins would be worth. Maybe. They would be hard enough for others to figure out that I consider them secure.
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Done! Figured it out. Password rubricks can be helpful.
Turns out I cut off a character from my password.
Nice to have my Bitcoin back, though.
Still, my earlier comment stands. Export your private keys before transferring to these addresses in Electrum.
I'm keen to start experimenting with BitCoin, and I'm interested to see Electrum turn up in my test install of Trisquel 7. Any particular reasons why Electrum was chosen for 7 over other BitCoin wallet apps? Anyone care to share any experiences (good or bad) with Electrum or other wallets?
FreeCoin is an interesting one to watch, not sure what stage it's at code-wise, but one of the developers involved is Jaromil from dyne.org:
http://dcentproject.eu/2015/05/the-d-cent-freecoin-toolchain/
http://freecoin.ch/
I use Electrum. Works like a charm.