vertcoin-project/electrum-vtc

Electrum-VTC; Vertcoin thin client

Electrum-VTC - Lightweight Vertcoin client

Licence: MIT Licence
Author: Thomas Voegtlin
Port Maintainer: pknight
Language: Python
Homepage: https://electrum.vertcoin.org/

Getting started

Electrum is a pure python application. If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5

If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), you can run Electrum from its root directory, without installing it on your system; all the python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory. To run Electrum from its root directory, just do:

./electrum-vtc

You can also install Electrum on your system, by running this command:

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
pip3 install .[fast]

This will download and install the Python dependencies used by Electrum, instead of using the 'packages' directory. The 'fast' extra contains some optional dependencies that we think are often useful but they are not strictly needed.

If you cloned the git repository, you need to compile extra files before you can run Electrum. Read the next section, "Development Version".

Development version

Check out the code from GitHub:

git clone git://github.com/spesmilo/electrum.git
cd electrum

Run install (this should install dependencies):

pip3 install .[fast]

Render the SVG icons to PNGs (optional):

for i in lock unlock confirmed status_lagging status_disconnected status_connected_proxy status_connected status_waiting preferences; do convert -background none icons/$i.svg icons/$i.png; done

Compile the icons file for Qt:

sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools
pyrcc5 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py

Compile the protobuf description file:

sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler
protoc --proto_path=lib/ --python_out=lib/ lib/paymentrequest.proto

Create translations (optional):

sudo apt-get install python-requests gettext
./contrib/make_locale

Creating Binaries

To create binaries, create the 'packages' directory:

./contrib/make_packages

This directory contains the python dependencies used by Electrum.

Mac OS X / macOS

See contrib/build-osx/.

Windows

See contrib/build-wine/.

Android

See gui/kivy/Readme.txt file.

electrum-vtc's Issues

Electrum freezes when loading wallet file

Electrum freezes when i type in my encrypted password. I have tried on multiple computers and it does the same exact thing.

Electrum asking for vtc_scrypt module in Linux mint

I am trying both electrum-vtc and the version for Tor network. In both cases works fine in W64, however when trying to run in Linux Mint I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "./electrum-vtc", line 95, in <module> imp.load_module('electrum_vtc', *imp.find_module('lib')) File "/home/juan/Electrum-VTC-2.9.3.3-tor/lib/__init__.py", line 6, in <module> from network import Network, pick_random_server File "/home/juan/Electrum-VTC-2.9.3.3-tor/lib/network.py", line 43, in <module> import blockchain File "/home/juan/Electrum-VTC-2.9.3.3-tor/lib/blockchain.py", line 37, in <module> import vtc_scrypt ImportError: No module named vtc_scrypt

Where do I get the vtc_scrypt module from?

Not Connected Issue

I have a not connected issue. Can someone please help. I have release 2.8.3.2

Can't send to Segwit address

transactions will not verify

Updated to 2.9.3.3 and still not verifying. I am on a Mac OS 10.11.6

electrum wallet has not received my coins.

Coinbase says sent and confirmed but my litecoin is not showing up in my wallet

Please FIX macOS

The installation instructions for macOS are insufficient or wrong, we have no google/protobuf package in homebrew so it's failing when trying to make_packages:

Also the setup-release command is failing hard.

Another thing is, why are homebrew user forced to use SUDO to run setup-release? I never need to do that with other python programs, please check it.

Happy new year and thanks for the hard work!

PS: My system and dependencies are up-to-date (macOS 10.13.2).

GUI module collision with electrum-ltc

Initially I had electrum-ltc and things are working fine. After I install electrum-vtc, both will not launch and it seems that some module are mixed up between the two. Maybe someone can shed a light?

$  electrum-ltc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/electrum-ltc", line 379, in <module>
    d.init_gui(config, plugins)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum_VTC-2.8.3.2-py2.7.egg/electrum_ltc/daemon.py", line 281, in init_gui
    gui = __import__('electrum_ltc_gui.' + gui_name, fromlist=['electrum_ltc_gui'])
ImportError: No module named vtc
$  electrum-vtc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/electrum-vtc", line 4, in <module>
    __import__('pkg_resources').run_script('Electrum-VTC==2.8.3.2', 'electrum-vtc')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 719, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1504, in run_script
    exec(code, namespace, namespace)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum_VTC-2.8.3.2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/electrum-vtc", line 379, in <module>
    d.init_gui(config, plugins)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Electrum_VTC-2.8.3.2-py2.7.egg/electrum_ltc/daemon.py", line 281, in init_gui
    gui = __import__('electrum_ltc_gui.' + gui_name, fromlist=['electrum_ltc_gui'])
ImportError: No module named vtc

ARM Compile

disregard. figured it out. couldn't find out how to delete this.

Electrum wallet will not connect

Hey there
Been using the new Electrum VTC wallet for a few days, however, today onwards it will not connect to the network. The blockchain shows 467711 blocks, servers none. I had chosen automatically connect to servers
I am working on Mac

Passord request

I installed the wallet. When I went to boot it up it asked for a password. I had not had an opportunity to set up a password so it would not open the wallet. Where am I to set up this password.

Unable to connect to electrum-vtc

Hi,
I am unable to connect to electrum vtc even though i have did unselected ssl,server and tried to load each avilable server manually.

Cannot connect without Disabling SSL

If I disable SSL I can connect to a list of Default Servers, however, I did not need to do this previously,

Do not want to connect with SSL disabled.

New Electrum Version 2.9.3.1. Wont Open

After I download the file my windows can not open the file type?

Electrum-VTC Error everytime I enter encryption

Won't even allow me to recover from seed because the top of the bar says electrum installer.

Electrum wallet not connected

Hi, I've got VTC electrum 2.9.3.1 wallet version and tried anything.
Add server manually, uncheck USE SSL but nothing works and my wallet is offline.
What should I doing now? Please help me

no transaction found on vtc network

I made a transaction from electrum wallet to ledger nano s, but my transaction has not been confirmed and the vtc network does not see it. I tried to deduce 12.94 vtc with the commission of 0.005vtc. help with this transaction: 24b25f5122b09fa07b5c53a3e7da81682275a3daef5ddba4501fa5687b65dbe4

Misspelled text in the portable install wizard

Under "How do you want to connect to a server?" the prompt partially reads "...The servers all fulfil...". It should read "...The servers all fulfill...". I know its nitpicky. Just trying to help make the product a bit more professional looking. Thanks for the work!

Electrum VTC Won't open on win 10 64bit

Tried the setup and the portable and the program wont open

Electrum-VTC-TOR 2.9.3.3 - Transaction with 139 confirmations (and counting) not verified

My Electrum-VTC-TOR 2.9.3.3 on macOS 10.12.6 is showing my transactions but they're "Not Verified" even though the blockchain explorer shows 139 confirmations and counting. The previous ticket for this problem was closed.

How do I fix this?

Status : Not Connected

Electrum Windows Wallet is showing "Not Connected" all the time. Wallet is not syncing as well.

Wallet Connection

Hi,

My wallet v2.8.3.2 for windows 64x is taking forever to sync. I get a 'not connected' signal for a long time. I'm in Ireland.

Thanks

M

Blurry Text

The text of this wallet is blurry. See screenshot comparing VTC to BTC wallet.

https://image.ibb.co/ieex9m/electrum.jpg

Verified transaction appear Not Verified.

Many transactions appear as "Not Verified", but actually are, because when you restart the Electrum Wallet they all appear with the correct date. It would be nice that they refresh to "finalized" automatically.

Missing transactions after synchronization

I am currently using electrum wallet v. 2.9.3.3 .Today I had numerous confirmed transactions and I had around 2.5 VTC .In a few seconds synchronization started and after it finished I was left with around 0.5 VTC and the records for all transactions in the last 11 hours were missing.Before synchronization there was message "laggy server" or something like that in the bottom left corner of the wallet.This seems to be a serious problem.I guess it is a server side related.Is there a chance to receive my coins after another synchronization?

Electrum wallet password not working

Hello,

        I created my electrum-vtc wallet a couple of days ago and I transfered some vertcoins to my wallet. All well, transaction made. Logged off and logged on yesterday, everything ok.

Today when I wanted to log in to my wallet, it says the password (word sequence) is incorrect so I cannot access my wallet even though I haven't changed anything at all.

Any opinions?

Thank you!

Electrum not connected

for some reasons, Electrum is not getting connected.
removed the software and reinstalled, did not work. used different computers and different networks.
any idea?

unresponsive

program went unresponsive been running just fine but now when i put in my password it just crashes tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no change any help would be appriciated

Crash on linux debian install

At some point in the instalation...

Searching for lyra2re2-hash
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/lyra2re2_hash/
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/lyra2re2-hash/
Couldn't find index page for 'lyra2re2_hash' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/
No local packages or download links found for lyra2re2-hash
error: Could not find suitable distribution for Requirement.parse('lyra2re2-hash')

Testing in a clean:
Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1 (2016-12-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Stuck

The initial sync gets stuck at blockchain height 467711. How can this be fixed? I have version 2.8.3.2 on a Mac.

After updating Electrum wallet to 2.9.3.5, version number still says 2.9.3.4

Hi there,
Just noticed a small detail. After updating my electrum wallet version 2.9.3.4 to 2.9.3.5, the title bar still shows the version to be 2.9.3.4
And i'm sure I updated to the latest version ;-) No biggy, just thought I'd let you guys know.

With kind regards, Vertimodo

Synching bug

Windows.
Due to the time required to do a full synch, I shut down the client by normal means. At that point it was a little over halfways synchronized.

On next startup, it connected to some servers, pulled some data, churned CPU a bit, and removed one server from the (auto-discovered) list. This it repeated until the list was empty, then it repopulated the list and started over. Never did the local height budge (it was stuck at ~466k), nor did it write anything at all to disk.

This was clearly an error condition, but I could not find neither (required) debug logs nor options to turn on debug logging to see exactly what had failed (this could be considered a feature request).

My suspicion is blockchain_headers might have been left in an unexpected state, that is not handled when synching should resume. I currently consider this a data-loss bug (i.e. major).

I have saved the blockchain_headers file (a little over 35MB), in case it could help research the issue.

Not Connected

Hello,
Server was connected earlier but currently not connected in the last few hours. Google search resolutions did not help fix the issue.

Error 3 While decompressing data: incorrect data check. How can i get rid this error?

vertcoin web wallet

Hello, I can not download the electrum to my computer, after launching the electrum icon nothing happens. Why? my balance Vertcoin lies on Wertcoin's web purse, and now it's closed, and there it is said to download the electronic wallet to get your money, well, that is, to transfer there. Help to understand, thanks!

Can not connect to Hardware Wallet - Trezor

Tried to setup this today and could not get it to detect the Trezor hardware wallet. Reported that the system did not have the correct libraries (python-trezor).

I installed a vanilla Electrum wallet, and it found the trezor fine.

OS: Windows 10.

How to build a Windows installer

Hi metalicjames,

I'm [email protected].

Could you tell me how to build a Windows installer?
OS: ubuntu 14.02 or 16.04 or windows, 32bit or 64bit?
Wine virsion: 16. 17. 18.?
On ubuntu, I can not find out wine-1.7.18. There is only 16., 18.

Will it work as described on the page below?
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/tree/master/contrib/build-wine

Thanks,
motty

Electrum vtc 2.9.3.3 stack

de;posit issue

When I execute a deposit from one of the exchanges it will invariably be ok then will be marked as invalid. I have not yet been successful in making a deposit into the Electrum wallet. I'm using the latest version 2.9.3

Enabling the price setting still shows LTC prices

Issue with receiving? (OSX)

Hi there,

I sent some VTC from Shapeshift to electrum-vtc using the address found in the "receive" tab but still nothing arrived. It's been a day already so it's a bit weird, the transaction went through just fine apparently on Shapeshift.

Any ideas why?

Thanks,

G.

Can not send transaction

I have been trying for hours to send VTC to Bittrex and on every attempt i receive the error "Server did not answer." I had no issues receiving my VTC from shapeshift. I have tried different servers and different fees to no avail. This is costing me time and money. What gives?

Add Release Hashes

Given it's possible for tampering to occur over the wire and this is a wallet which holds currency please consider adding release hashes with every release.

Electrucm VTC Not Starting

Hi, i recently installed Electrum-VTC via
sudo -H pip3 install https://github.com/vertcoin/electrum-vtc/releases/download/2.9.3.3/Electrum-VTC-2.9.3.3.tar.gz

and after clicking the app on the ubuntu app list, the program does not start

Electrum vtc 2.9.3.3 stays indefinite time on "unconfirmed"

After initiating transaction of vtc to confirmed address the status doesn't seem to change for 24 hours already.

Restarting the pc and the wallet doesn't help.

Please advise what to do?

Best regards,
Venci

Restore with the seed and lost the last address in list

PC A) i7 W10 Pro 64bit 16GB ram - PC B) Xeon W10 Pro 64Bit 4GB ram - both with electrum-VTC-2.9.3.3 on board. At the installation time of electrum on the PC B, on the PC A electrum was already installed but not open.
Issue: I made a electrum 2nd installation on PC B) with backup purpose using the seed way to "Clone" PC A) data. On the PC B is missing just the "Replication" of the last address in list. PC A has default nr. 21 Vxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx addresses available and on the PC "Clone" you can count just 20.

Best regards
Ricotro

Not connected?

My connection is fine but on the bottom left it says not connected? restarting wont help?

"Not Verified" is what it keeps saying?

I bought VertCoins and transferred them with Shapeshifter and they are in my Wallet, I think? B/c it just says "Not Verified" and I can't figure out why?

How do I get that transaction to be "Verified"???

Unable to import private key on first startup

When starting Electrum-VTC for the first time, you have the option "Use public or private keys" when creating the default wallet.

I got the private key for one of my addresses using 'dumpprivkey' in vertcoin-qt, but Electrum-VTC doesn't seem to verify the key correctly, so the "Next" button isn't enabled, and I cannot import the key.

There is also a reference to Litecoin left in the help text

Crashing/Unresponsive

I have been mining to my electrum VTC wallet for about a week and now it crashes every time I enter my password. I still have access to my money if I regenerate my wallet from my seed but now when I try to transfer money it locks up and becomes unresponsive.

Any thoughts on how to fix these issues? I read that you shouldn't mine to these wallets after I already did that so hopefully there is a way to retrieve my VTC.

I'm running windows 10 64bit, I have used the install version and the .exe version and had the same issue. I have tried reinstalling a few times, I've tried previous versions and I have deleted my config file in hopes that would change something. I would happily try anything you guys come up with.

Thanks for the help.