Electrum windows command line

Copy paste electroneum-wallet-cli. It will ask for Standard key. Copy paste your public key. You are finished. In this wallet I have 0 ETN. If you write help and hit enter you will find a lot of useful commands.

To easily identify the payment later, type some description. The sent sum and the transaction fee make the total amount of the transaction. If your transaction is larger than your wallet balance, Electrum will warn you with red digits in your amount box, i. As shown in the following picture. In order to make a transaction fee must be included. Bitcoin fees are quite complicated to discuss. Bitcoin fees are taken according to the number of bytes required to encrypt a transaction while banking system charges fees according to the sent amount of funds.

Transaction length, measured in bytes and the market fee density create fees. The network transaction capacity influence the fee density. To inform yourself about the current fee density visit estimatefee. You can set the fee density at the desired amount by moving the slider. If you set a higher fee density, total fee will be higher as well and the chances are bigger, that your transaction will be added to the next block.

Transactions with small density fees are likely to be delayed, for a couple of hours, even days or not to be processed at all. Some of the services will not receive unconfirmed replaceable transaction, they will ask for confirmed one, but anyhow the replaceable box should be ticked. You can adjust fees using a slider for rough adjustment and use the fine tune with the input box. On the following window is the 1 testnet mTBC 0.

It is recommended to check your payment before the transfer. Click on the preview button and see all the important information about the transaction :sent amount, transaction length in bytes, the fee and density fee, address :source and destination.

Bitcoin is presented as electronic cash system and it shows digital crypto as output transactions. In the Output box we can see 2 transactions despite that only one is paid, that happens because the first output is paying for the inserted address in the payment form and the second for one of your own addresses. There is also an option to sign and broadcast transaction, click sign then broadcast, but if you have a password Electrum will demand it.

Send transaction by clicking the send button from the same tab. After this task signing and broadcasting you can observe you payment. As we see a replaceable transaction gets a yellow triangle until it is confirmed. It is known that you can get a paper wallet from other users.

After receiving a paper wallet your task is to import its private key in order to sweep the funds. Pay attention to lines, one key one line. Address at the end of a window presents the target of the funds that are swept. Changing an address is also possible by clicking on its button and of course Electrum wants that swept funds have confirmations.

You will be confused to see that all of the received addresses are empty and the wallet balance is zero. Where is the money? Keep scrolling the address tab till you come to a change list, open the list click on the triangle.

You will see some non-zero balances with change addresses if you did some transactions recently. We know that Bitcoin is an electronic system and it has a lot of in common with paper banknotes system. When using cash money you can pay exact sum or you overpay and expect to get rest as the change.

Believe or not Bitcoin works in similar way, you think that your wallet is reduced during a certain transaction. This is what happens, a certain coin is taken from your account, so its face value is not the same as the value you have to pay. Transaction makes two new coins, one pays the other side of the transaction and the other comes as a change to you. Therefore this change goes in the change address. Find more information here Bitcoin: Think of it as Electronic Cash.

For example if we spend total of 1 tBTC ,a 0. Open preferences in the Tools menu. The wallets which are using same seed will be synchronized. This makes it possible to combine Electrum commands with Python.

For example, let us pick only the addresses in the previous result:. Here we combine two commands, listunspent and dumpprivkeys, in order to dump the private keys of all adresses that have unspent outputs:. Note that dumpprivkey will ask for your password if your wallet is encrypted. The GUI methods can be accessed through the gui variable. For example, you can display a QR code from a string using gui.

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