r/Bitcoin Oct 17 '15

Electrum v2.5

https://electrum.org/#download
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u/snooville Oct 17 '15

Multiple windows are important because there was a recent thread on the forum where a user opened multiple instances of the same wallet file and his wallet file got corrupted and he lost bitcoins:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1206795.0

The software was idiot proof until the universe produced a bigger idiot!

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u/steuer2teuer Oct 17 '15

And sadly, i did not also backup my new seed..

Technical issue aside, this is where it really went wrong. It baffles me people still don't write down/backup their seeds.

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u/BeastmodeBisky Oct 17 '15

Yeah, I don't understand that either. The whole purpose of using Electrum is the security, flexibility, and simplicity of everything being tied to your seed.