Category Archives: Bitcoin Clients
Make your own Electrum Seed
Electrum 2.0 supports a new make_seed command line option that generates a random seed and displays the mnemonic:
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New Features in Electrum 2.0
Electrum 2.0 was released a while back. Since then there have been a few bug fix releases to this branch as well. Here’s whats new in the Electrum 2.0.x versions:
Electrum Seed Explained
Electrum is a deterministic wallet where all bitcoin private keys are derived from a single seed. That means that you only have to backup the seed once and it’s good for life. It also means that should the seed be compromised all your bitcoins can be stolen. So let’s look at how electrum seeds are created and secured.
Coin Control in Electrum
Updated: 23 October 2016
Coin control means to have granular control over the inputs and outputs of a transaction using the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of a bitcoin client. Not all bitcoin clients support coin control. Electrum is a client that has limited support for coin control.