electrum(1)

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version 4.5.8 · 2 versions
, in debian bookworm, fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 electrum(1) — General Commands Manual 💖

okay bestie, this is the manual page for electrum, and we're gonna get you fluent in it, fr fr. grab a snack 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

electrum — lightweight bitcoin client 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

electrum [options] command [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Electrum is a lightweight bitcoin client. that's the whole vibe.

It protects you from losing bitcoins in a backup mistake or a computer failure — literally, no cap, that's the point. It lets you recover your wallet from a passphrase that you can learn by heart or write down on a piece of paper. iconic behavior.

And because electrum does not download the entire bitcoin block chain, there is no waiting time when the client is started. zero. none. you just open it and go ✨

the flags, one by one, no skipping 🎀

  • -g GUI, --gui=GUI — pick your user interface. possible values are qt, lite, gtk or text. choose your fighter 💅
  • -w WALLET_PATH, --wallet=WALLET_PATH — use the wallet from WALLET_PATH. default is electrum.dat.
  • -o, --offline — remain offline. airplane mode era ✈️
  • -a, --all — show all addresses.
  • -b, --balance — show the balance of listed addresses.
  • -l, --labels — show the labels of listed addresses.
  • -f TX_FEE, --fee=TX_FEE — set tx fee.
  • -F FROM_ADDR, --fromad — and then the page literally prints dr=FROM_ADDR on the next line 💀 bestie the source manpage is glitching, I'm keeping it exactly as it landed, don't come for me.

set source address for payto/mktx. if it isn't in the wallet, it will ask for the private key unless supplied in the format public_key:private_key. It's not saved in the wallet.

  • -c CHANGE_ADDR, --changeaddr=CHANGE_ADDR — set the change address for payto/mktx. default is a spare address, or the source address if it's not in the wallet.
  • -s SERVER, --server=SERVER — set server host:port:protocol, where protocol is t or h.
  • -p PROXY, --proxy=PROXY — set proxy [type:]host[:port], where type is socks4, socks5 or http.
  • -v, --verbose — show debugging information. main character debug energy 🔥
  • -P, --portable — portable wallet.
  • -L LANGUAGE, --lang=LANGUAGE — default language used in GUI.
  • -u, --usb — turn on support for hardware wallets (EXPERIMENTAL). ⚠️ experimental, so like, know that going in.
ngl, -u says EXPERIMENTAL in the original and I am not gonna soften that for you. that's the actual label. 🫶

✨ AUTHORS ✨

  • The Electrum client was initially written by ThomasV <thomasv@gitorious> 🧚
  • This manual page was written by Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev@gmail.com> for the Debian Project (but can be used by others). 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one is electrum, version dated 23 June 2013, from the electrum(1) corner of the manual-verse — shoutout to that 2013 date for being so vintage of it 🌸 go forth and recover your wallet from a passphrase you memorized like a song lyric 💖✨🎀

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