Electrum
Electrum is a lightweight Bitcoin client, based on a client-server protocol. It was released on november 5, 2011.
Main features:
- Encrypted wallet
- Deterministic key generation. If you lose your wallet, you can recover it from its passphrase.
- No blockchain download; the client requests that information from a server
- Private keys are not shared with the server.
- Firewall friendly: The client does not need to open a port, it simply polls the server for updates.
- No single point of failure: The server code is open source, anyone can run a server.
- Python. Very compact code, easy to contribute.
Brain Wallet
Electrum uses a type 2 deterministic key generation algorithm. This means that all the keys are derived from a seed.
Electrum makes it easy to memorize its seed, because it uses a mnemonic code.
Example:
- hexadecimal: 8a44dfd6ad4f687b5e3c80563c327027
- mnemonic: "shade weave eternity kept true tangle new talk clay warmth fish match"
Screenshot
Security
links
- homepage: http://ecdsa.org/electrum
- source code: https://gitorious.org/electrum
- download: git clone git://gitorious.org/electrum/electrum.git
