rich1.0npub1xg2m84malu0cfm4444r0kysx4rgk27e75aj6sz6538kw8fcz627qeadsv7https://nostr.ae/npub1xg2m84malu0cfm4444r0kysx4rgk27e75aj6sz6538kw8fcz627qeadsv7njumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2015-03-02 📝 Original message:Congrats on the release! Electrum is a very nice wallet. On 03/01/2015 04:23 PM, Thomas Voegtlin wrote: > Dear Bitcoin devs, > > I just tagged version 2.0 of Electrum: > https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/2.0 > > The electrum.org website will be updated later today. The release > notes are a bit dense, due to the large amount of changes and new > features in this release. In the coming weeks we will be adding > more detailed documentation to the wiki and to the website. > > There has been a very long hiatus in Electrum releases, because it > took me a lot of time to decide about the new seed derivation > method and wallet structure. Now that this part is done, I hope > that we will resume to a faster release pace. > > I would like to thank all the people who contributed to this > release, developers, beta testers, but also people from this list > who provided useful feedback. > > Cheers, > > Thomas > > _____________________________ > > RELEASE-NOTES > > # Release 2.0 > > * Before you upgrade, make sure you have saved your wallet seed on > paper. > > * Documentation is now hosted on a wiki: http://electrum.orain.org > > * New seed derivation method (not compatible with BIP39). The seed > phrase includes a version number, that refers to the wallet > structure. The version number also serves as a checksum, and it > will prevent the import of seeds from incompatible wallets. Old > Electrum seeds are still supported. > > * New address derivation (BIP32). Standard wallets are single > account and use a gap limit of 20. > > * Support for Multisig wallets using parallel BIP32 derivations > and P2SH addresses ("2 of 2", "2 of 3"). > > * Compact serialization format for unsigned or partially signed > transactions, that includes the BIP32 master public key and > derivation needed to sign inputs. Serialized transactions can be > sent to cosigners or to cold storage using QR codes (using Andreas > Schildbach's base 43 idea). > > * Support for BIP70 payment requests: - Verification of the chain > of signatures uses tlslite. - In the GUI, payment requests are > shown in the 'Invoices' tab. > > * Support for hardware wallets: Trezor (Satoshilabs) and Btchip > (Ledger). > > * Two-factor authentication service by TrustedCoin. This service > uses "2 of 3" multisig wallets and Google Authenticator. Note that > wallets protected by this service can be deterministically > restored from seed, without Trustedcoin's server. > > * Cosigner Pool plugin: encrypted communication channel for > multisig wallets, to send and receive partially signed > transactions. > > * Audio Modem plugin: send and receive transactions by sound. > > * OpenAlias plugin: send bitcoins to aliases verified using > DNSSEC. > > * New 'Receive' tab in the GUI: - create and manage payment > requests, with QR Codes - the former 'Receive' tab was renamed to > 'Addresses' - the former Point of Sale plugin is replaced by a > resizeable window that pops up if you click on the QR code > > * The 'Send' tab in the Qt GUI supports transactions with multiple > outputs, and raw hexadecimal scripts. > > * The GUI can connect to the Electrum daemon: "electrum -d" will > start the daemon if it is not already running, and the GUI will > connect to it. The daemon can serve several clients. It times out > if no client uses if for more than 5 minutes. > > * The install wizard can be used to import addresses or private > keys. A watching-only wallet is created by entering a list of > addresses in the wizard dialog. > > * New file format: Wallets files are saved as JSON. Note that new > wallet files cannot be read by older versions of Electrum. Old > wallet files will be converted to the new format; this operation > may take some time, because public keys will be derived for each > address of your wallet. > > * The client accepts servers with a CA-signed SSL certificate. > > * ECIES encrypt/decrypt methods, availabe in the GUI and using the > command line: encrypt <pubkey> <message> decrypt <pubkey> > <message> > > * The Android GUI has received various updates and it is much more > stable. Another script was added to Android, called Authenticator, > that works completely offline: it reads an unsigned transaction > shown as QR code, signs it and shows the result as a QR code. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored > by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your > hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly > thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials > and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. > http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ >