[SOLVED] Electrum Bitcoin Wallet

linustalman · 07-24-2017, 01:18 PM

Hi.

Has anyone here tried the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet?

It seems that the bitcoins are kept online on a blockchain AFAIK. What would happen if Electrum had it's development stopped or disappeared altogether? Would any bitcoins associated with it be lost?

Thanks.

af7567 · 07-24-2017, 04:13 PM

You can export your private keys from the electrum client, so if you keep them safe then I would think you can use them to access the bitcoin addresses associated with them.

linustalman · 07-26-2017, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by af7567

You can export your private keys from the electrum client, so if you keep them safe then I would think you can use them to access the bitcoin addresses associated with them.

Hi af7567.

Regardless of what ever bitcoin wallet client I use?

af7567 · 07-26-2017, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by linustalman

Hi af7567.

Regardless of what ever bitcoin wallet client I use?

Hi,
That is a good question. I have never tried it but it is something I would expect to work since the private key is the private key whatever client you are using.

I just tested it by exporting my private keys from electrum then importing one into bitcoin-qt (using the importprivkey console command) and it seemed to work. It shows the correct receiving address in bitcoin-qt now even though I have never used that address before in bitcoin-qt.

linustalman · 07-26-2017, 02:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by af7567

Hi,
That is a good question. I have never tried it but it is something I would expect to work since the private key is the private key whatever client you are using.

I just tested it by exporting my private keys from electrum then importing one into bitcoin-qt (using the importprivkey console command) and it seemed to work. It shows the correct receiving address in bitcoin-qt now even though I have never used that address before in bitcoin-qt.

Thank you for the clarification. Cheers.