1electrum(1) General Commands Manual electrum(1)
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6 electrum - Lightweight bitcoin client
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9 electrum [options] command [options]
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12 Electrum is a lightweight bitcoin client.
13 Electrum protects from losing bitcoins in a backup mistake or computer
14 failure. It allows recovery of wallet from a passphrase which you can
15 learn by heart or write it down on a paper.
16 Since electrum does not download the entire bitcoin block chain there
17 is no waiting time when the client is started.
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20 -g GUI, --gui=GUI
21 Select user interface, possible values are qt, lite, gtk or
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24 -w WALLET_PATH, --wallet=WALLET_PATH
25 Use wallet from WALLET_PATH, default is electrum.dat.
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27 -o, --offline
28 Remain offline.
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31 Show all addresses.
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34 Show the balance of listed addresses
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37 Show the labels of listed addresses
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39 -f TX_FEE, --fee=TX_FEE
40 set tx fee
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42 -F FROM_ADDR, --fromad
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45 set source address for payto/mktx. if it isn't in the wallet, it will
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47 vate_key. It's not saved in the wallet.
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51 set the change address for payto/mktx. default is a spare address, or
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54 -s SERVER, --server=SERVER
55 set server host:port:protocol, where protocol is t or h
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58 set proxy [type:]host[:port], where type is socks4,socks5 or
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62 show debugging information
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65 portable wallet
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71 Turn on support for hardware wallets (EXPERIMENTAL).
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74 Electrum client was initially written by ThomasV <thomasv@gitorious>
75 This manual page was written by Vasudev Kamath <kamathva‐
76 sudev@gmail.com> for Debian Project (but can be used by others).
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