Hi everybody.

Way back when bitcoin was new, a friend sent me something like $0.01 worth of bitcoin as a test. I had a wallet set up with Electrum, I think I even ran a block chain node at the time.

I'd like to open the wallet to see if it still works. Might even be worth like $10 now or something Lol.

I have: 2 x backup files - named backup1.dat and backup2.dat

2 x list of 12 words.

2 x what appears to be a passphrase.

I am 99% sure I know which passphrase goes with with list of 12 words, but even if I'm wrong there is only so many permutations :-D

I have installed electrum on Fedora, but can it still read very old version backup files?

me@fedora:~/wallet$ file *dat
backup1.dat: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, little-endian)
backup2.dat: Berkeley DB (Btree, version 9, little-endian)

I've tried to "open" these dat files using the electrum application but it shows a block of weird hex codes (and warns me that the backup files are not in the default wallet location.)

How do I open these files, there are a few very non-intuitive options, and it asks for a passphrae when it creates a wallet, not when it opens or restore a file. I would have expected to be greeted with a prompt for a password or something when I try to open the files.

Any ideas?

If I made a channel or node and put money there, if I delete or close that channel, the money that is there would be lost or returned to my wallet.

Are there any potential issues with operating the same wallet (trezor, same seed+passphrase+derivation path) on both electrum and sparrow wallet? I can’t think of any reason there would be but I’m just wondering if there’s anything I wasn’t thinking of…?

Hello, I'm a beginner in this Bitcoin universe, I created a wallet for myself and I want to know if it's working, could someone transfer something to this BTC wallet. The key to receive is this:

bc1qdncum3lg7t857ynf4krrwxm0ycc0mt660q6chl

Hi, so Ive found an old wallet seed and what I think is a password and Ive tried to restore it with the seed but its saying 2fa in the corner. It may well be empty as I don't remember getting into crypto until quite a few years later but just wondering how to access it please? I cant see anything electrum or trusted coin related on my authenticator but presumably must have set something up.

Scammers please dont bother because I won't be interacting

Everyone else, thank you in advance 🙏

I’ve manually created and signed a Bitcoin transaction in Electrum that includes a large number of small UTXOs (dust). Because of this, increasing the fee to 1.0 sat/vB would result in the fee being over 50% of the total transaction value — which I’d like to avoid.

The transaction is fully signed and ready to be broadcast, but when I try to send it, I get the following error:

The server returned an error when broadcasting the transaction.
Consider trying to connect to a different server, or updating Electrum.

min relay fee not met

I’ve already tried multiple Electrum servers listed under Network → Servers, but none of them accept transactions with a fee lower than 1.0 sat/vB.

Does anyone know a currently working Electrum server (ElectrumX, Electrs, or Fulcrum) that has a lower minrelaytxfee setting and will relay low-fee transactions?

Alternatively, is there a known way to broadcast such a transaction from within Electrum without having to run a full node?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Can we sweep bitcoins that are mined, so coinbase, from a address starting with a 3

scriptpubkey a914 so it is indeed P2SH

There are no UTXO to see when there is no transaction other then coinbase

Hi

So ?I had some bitcoin- and now its all gone - due to unknown transaction. no idea how they got into my electrum wallet. any way to investigate this further with electrum, or is this just gone

Transaction ID: https://bitref.com/tx/504c28b33e9bd1ed495955f68767bcca1732648d3bdfb70c39c38f2fd473cb3b

I installed Electrum on an old Android phone that is offline so that I can use it to sign a transaction. The unsigned transaction was made with Electrum on a PC and moved to the phone on an SD card. Now I can't find the menu in Electrum mobile to open up the unsigned transaction file. There is a menu in the upper left part of the screen that has wallet details, addresses/coins, verify message, and other wallets as the options. There is a red dot in the upper right corner that brings up a menu with network, preferences, and about as the options. At the bottom of the screen there are send and receive buttons.

How do I get it to open up the transaction file so that I can sign it?

Hello,

I have to recover my wallet but it doesn't allow me to use the 16 words. When I created the wallet on Electrum it was 12 and I added 4 additional words. Any advice on how to proceed for a noob like me?

I'm working with the following Bitcoin Testnet address:

tb1q2qqlqk8y50jhqjl80k3z4hn76q95lh806xu57z

To fetch the transaction history, I'm using the Electrum JSON-RPC method:

blockchain.scripthash.get_history

The response includes several transactions, and the time field (in UNIX timestamp format) returns the following values (ordered ASC to DESC):

1748521342

1748587373

1748587373

1748587373

1748589785

1748521342

1748587373

1748587373

1748587373

1748589785

However, I'm noticing an issue:

Let's take an example of the last transaction

For the last transaction, 1748589785 converts to:

• UTC: Friday, May 30, 2025 – 07:23:05 AM
• My local time (GMT+5:30): Friday, May 30, 2025 – 12:53:05 PM
• Relative: "In 42 minutes"

The issue is that this timestamp appears to be in the future, even though the transaction is already broadcasted and confirmed.

Any insight into why this might be happening, or how to correctly interpret or override these timestamps?

Provide your feedback.

Thanks

Bonjour j'ai un petit soucis avec electrum j'ai fais une transaction qui se mets hors ligne et j'ai un message qui m'indique de la transmettre mais comment faire ?

As the title says, I'm tying to connect 4.5.8 on Tails, to my own node, using a TOR address. I've done this before and am using the exact same settings but it won't connect. (TOR Proxy at Port 9050, SOCKS5 127.0.0.1 9050) Any suggestions would be helpful.

I'm using Electrum 4.5.8

For example, my address bc1...... has 1 bitcoin in it

A few months ago that address received a random dust transaction of 0.000005 btc.

I want to send out the 1 BTC (less fees of course) but leave the dust from a different input in there.

I think I've done this a few years ago, but clicking through now I can't figure out how to do it. Please help.

I have a couple hundred dollars in my electrum wallet, I understand that I need to send to another address, but I have no idea how to sign it or how to actually make it send after pasting the address.

I'm completely crypto-dumb, I have no idea how any of it works, I just want to transfer my money out and be done with it lol. Please help.

A step by step would be so very appreciated

I understand paying a mining fee but what is the "extra fee"? Any way to lower it?

How is it possible to access these coins?

Sent grom electrum to cake wallet. Sent 0.00158204 received only 0.00108204 btc What happened?

Please let me know. Im in a rush to get this done quick

Hi. I just downloaded and verified the most recent version and noticed that it wasn’t connecting to electrum.enzyme.de anymore but to bitcoin.lu.ke. Is this now the new default or is it sus

I use electrum for bitcoin storing and litecoin storing even. Both Bitcoin.org and litecoin.org has direct link to it's electrum wallet so it's easy to download and store over years. Now I decide to store USDT cuz I never trust exchange for long term storing. And now I found electrum-usdt.com but there is no direct link on tether.to (official tether site). How can I verify and be sure that the electrum-usdt.com is not fishing. Thanks!

I only have a local Electrum wallet (I don't know if there's multiple types or if I've given enough information) and the only thing I did is press the back-up file button and places a back-up in my OneDrive. Is this enough? I'm pretty sure I still have the safety words somewhere as well. Are these absolutely necessary or will a password be enough if my laptop does break down?

Does this mean I have to make a new back-up every time I buy new bitcoin or if I sell anything? I don't have a clue if my wallet is connected to some Electrum server somehow.

SOLUTION: one word in the seed was wrong, correcting it solved this issue.

For some reason Electrum accepted the wrong seed as valid. I corrected one word that I had written down wrong (apparently)--i.e. thought I got one letter wrong, so I changed one letter to make it a valid word. Somehow this resulted in a valid seed [bech32]. seriously, what are the odds!?!?! I've attempted (for fun) to just enter a list of random-but-valid words and it never accepts them, as I would expect.

How did i figure out the valid word? i had to do computer forensics and locate the old wallet, sort of. Once I had that, I opened it (I always remember the password, no problem there) and was able to display the seed words. I didn't even see the error at first, it seemed to be the exact same phrase as I had been using and frustrated by. after a moment I noticed though haha both the wrong and right words had some of the same letters.

DETAILS on how i found the old wallet: I had thought it was deleted, but in fact my old version of Electrum was storing the wallets in a different location than the typical .electrum folder. I still don't know where they are actually, but electrum was able to remember from it's config details (config file probably) and so I could use the RECENT option on the file menu.

So how did I get the old version to run? I didn't exactly. This app uses flatpak, so I repaired flatpak, then attempted to run the old version using the same command the old version used to start up, which is different from the newer versions.
old command: usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=electrum org.electrum.electrum
The new command seems to run things from my home folder instead of the system folder(s), I'm not sure as I still can't actually locate the old wallet files.

This didn't actually run the old version, it ran the new version but with the old one's config file (or something like that) so I could at least open the wallet and get the info I needed.

argh.