Sweeping your private keys into Electrum
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Electrum-LTC is a simple, but powerful Litecoin wallet. Keep it on paper, or in your head It is not an official product of Electrum Technologies GmbH, which does not support it. It was fixed in Electrum-LTC 3. Please update your software if you are running an earlier version.
Electrum paper wallet verify the digital signatures of electrum paper wallet files you electrum paper wallet Standalone Executable checksums ; signature by Pooler Windows Installer checksums ; signature by Pooler Portable version checksums ; signature by Pooler. Executable checksums ; signature by Pooler. Downloads Features Community Questions? Windows Standalone Executable checksums ; signature by Pooler Windows Installer checksums ; signature by Pooler Portable version checksums ; signature by Pooler.
Linux sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pyqt5 python3-pip python3-dev libssl-dev sudo pip3 install scrypt sudo pip3 install https: OS X Executable checksums ; signature by Pooler. Android is not currently supported. If you are looking for a mobile wallet, check out LoafWalletJaxx or Coinomi.
What is the Seed? Electrum-LTC uses a bit random seed to generate your private keys. The seed can be represented as a word mnemonic code.
You do not need to perform regular backups, because your wallet can be recovered from the seed that you can memorize or write on paper. What is the gap limit? The gap limit is the maximum number of consecutive unused addresses in your deterministic sequence of addresses. Electrum-LTC uses a gap limit to stop looking for addresses. This is set to electrum paper wallet by default, so the client generates new addresses until 5 unused addresses are found. When you freeze an address, the funds in that address will not be used for sending litecoins.
You cannot send litecoins if you don't have enough funds in electrum paper wallet addresses. The best way to switch to Electrum paper wallet is to send all the litecoins you have electrum paper wallet your old wallet to one electrum paper wallet the addresses on your Electrum wallet.
This way you'll have all your litecoins secured with your seed. Older versions of Electrum could import private keys from another client, but then you had to backup those keys separately, as they could not be restored by the Electrum seed.
Where is my wallet file located? What is a blockchain? A blockchain is a long record of every single transaction ever made.
Each litecoin traded for a good or service is marked on the ledger with a transaction id and the origination and target wallet addresses. This server is provided courtesy of ByteSized Hosting. Website design by Frank Tudor.
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