Andreas Schildbach [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-03-02 📝 Original message:Congrats on the release! ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-03-02
📝 Original message:Congrats on the release! Electrum is a very nice wallet.


On 03/01/2015 04:23 PM, Thomas Voegtlin wrote:
> Dear Bitcoin devs,
>
> I just tagged version 2.0 of Electrum:
> https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/2.0
>
> The electrum.org website will be updated later today. The release
> notes are a bit dense, due to the large amount of changes and new
> features in this release. In the coming weeks we will be adding
> more detailed documentation to the wiki and to the website.
>
> There has been a very long hiatus in Electrum releases, because it
> took me a lot of time to decide about the new seed derivation
> method and wallet structure. Now that this part is done, I hope
> that we will resume to a faster release pace.
>
> I would like to thank all the people who contributed to this
> release, developers, beta testers, but also people from this list
> who provided useful feedback.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas
>
> _____________________________
>
> RELEASE-NOTES
>
> # Release 2.0
>
> * Before you upgrade, make sure you have saved your wallet seed on
> paper.
>
> * Documentation is now hosted on a wiki: http://electrum.orain.org
>
> * New seed derivation method (not compatible with BIP39). The seed
> phrase includes a version number, that refers to the wallet
> structure. The version number also serves as a checksum, and it
> will prevent the import of seeds from incompatible wallets. Old
> Electrum seeds are still supported.
>
> * New address derivation (BIP32). Standard wallets are single
> account and use a gap limit of 20.
>
> * Support for Multisig wallets using parallel BIP32 derivations
> and P2SH addresses ("2 of 2", "2 of 3").
>
> * Compact serialization format for unsigned or partially signed
> transactions, that includes the BIP32 master public key and
> derivation needed to sign inputs. Serialized transactions can be
> sent to cosigners or to cold storage using QR codes (using Andreas
> Schildbach's base 43 idea).
>
> * Support for BIP70 payment requests: - Verification of the chain
> of signatures uses tlslite. - In the GUI, payment requests are
> shown in the 'Invoices' tab.
>
> * Support for hardware wallets: Trezor (Satoshilabs) and Btchip
> (Ledger).
>
> * Two-factor authentication service by TrustedCoin. This service
> uses "2 of 3" multisig wallets and Google Authenticator. Note that
> wallets protected by this service can be deterministically
> restored from seed, without Trustedcoin's server.
>
> * Cosigner Pool plugin: encrypted communication channel for
> multisig wallets, to send and receive partially signed
> transactions.
>
> * Audio Modem plugin: send and receive transactions by sound.
>
> * OpenAlias plugin: send bitcoins to aliases verified using
> DNSSEC.
>
> * New 'Receive' tab in the GUI: - create and manage payment
> requests, with QR Codes - the former 'Receive' tab was renamed to
> 'Addresses' - the former Point of Sale plugin is replaced by a
> resizeable window that pops up if you click on the QR code
>
> * The 'Send' tab in the Qt GUI supports transactions with multiple
> outputs, and raw hexadecimal scripts.
>
> * The GUI can connect to the Electrum daemon: "electrum -d" will
> start the daemon if it is not already running, and the GUI will
> connect to it. The daemon can serve several clients. It times out
> if no client uses if for more than 5 minutes.
>
> * The install wizard can be used to import addresses or private
> keys. A watching-only wallet is created by entering a list of
> addresses in the wizard dialog.
>
> * New file format: Wallets files are saved as JSON. Note that new
> wallet files cannot be read by older versions of Electrum. Old
> wallet files will be converted to the new format; this operation
> may take some time, because public keys will be derived for each
> address of your wallet.
>
> * The client accepts servers with a CA-signed SSL certificate.
>
> * ECIES encrypt/decrypt methods, availabe in the GUI and using the
> command line: encrypt <pubkey> <message> decrypt <pubkey>
> <message>
>
> * The Android GUI has received various updates and it is much more
> stable. Another script was added to Android, called Authenticator,
> that works completely offline: it reads an unsigned transaction
> shown as QR code, signs it and shows the result as a QR code.
>
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>
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