tldr/pages/common/electrum.md

electrum

Ergonomic Bitcoin wallet and private key management. More information: https://electrum.org.

• Create a new wallet:

electrum -w {{new_wallet.dat}} create

• Restore an existing wallet from seed offline:

electrum -w {{recovery_wallet.dat}} restore -o

• Create a signed transaction offline:

electrum mktx {{recipient}} {{amount}} -f 0.0000001 -F {{from}} -o

• Display all wallet receiving addresses:

electrum listaddresses -a

• Sign a message:

electrum signmessage {{address}} {{message}}

• Verify a message:

electrum verifymessage {{address}} {{signature}} {{message}}

• Connect only to a specific electrum-server instance:

electrum -p socks5:{{127.0.0.1}}:9050 -s {{56ckl5obj37gypcu.onion}}:50001:t -1