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| Original author(s) | Electrum Technologies GmbH |
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| Initial release | 2011 |
| Repository | github |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Linux, Windows, macOS, Android |
| Type | Cryptocurrency wallet |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | electrum |
Electrum is a free custodial cryptocurrency wallet for Bitcoin and Lightning Network. It's available for Windows, Linux (pre-installed on Tails OS), macOS and Android. Electrum is written in Python and uses the Qt widget toolkit for the user interface. Electrum is a lightweight client: it does not download the entire blockchain and instead uses simplified payment verification. Transactions are sent to public servers.[1] It was first released in 2011 and continuously improving.[2][3]
- ^ Zhang, Yiyin (May 2023). "SoK: Anonymity of Lightweight Clients in Cryptocurrency Systems". 2023 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC). pp. 1–18. doi:10.1109/ICBC56567.2023.10174913. ISBN 979-8-3503-1019-1.
- ^ Conrad, Barski (2014). Bitcoin for the Befuddled. No Starch Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-59327-573-0.
- ^ Caetano, Richard (2015). Learning Bitcoin. Packt Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-78528-730-5.