Welcome to the Electrum Documentation!
Electrum is a lightweight Bitcoin wallet.
GUI and beginners
- Frequently Asked Questions
- How does Electrum work?
- Does Electrum trust servers?
- What is the seed?
- How secure is the seed?
- I have forgotten my password. What can I do?
- How does Electrum get the Bitcoin price it uses?
- My transaction has been unconfirmed for a long time. What can I do?
- What does it mean to “freeze” an address in Electrum?
- How is the wallet encrypted?
- Does Electrum support cold wallets?
- Can I import private keys from other Bitcoin clients?
- Can I sweep private keys from other Bitcoin clients?
- Where is the Electrum datadir located?
- Where is my wallet file located?
- How to enable debug logging?
- Can I do bulk payments with Electrum? (batching)
- Can Electrum create and sign raw transactions?
- Electrum freezes when I try to send bitcoins.
- What is the gap limit?
- How can I pre-generate new addresses?
- How do I upgrade Electrum?
- My anti-virus has flagged Electrum as malware! What now?
- Electrum requires recent Python. My Linux distribution does not yet have it. What now?
- I might run my own server. Are client-server connections authenticated?
- Does Electrum support altcoins (“cryptocurrencies”)?
- Invoices
- Two Factor Authentication
- Multisig Wallets
- Cold Storage
- Hardware wallets on Linux
- Using the most current Electrum on Tails
- Plugins
- Malware (and other avenues of losing money)
Advanced users
Daemon and Command Line