Thomas Voegtlin [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-03-16 📝 Original message:I am happy to announce the ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-03-16
📝 Original message:I am happy to announce the release of Electrum 1.9.8.
This release includes some features initially planned for version 2.0.
Packages are available on https://electrum.org/download.html (signed by me)
Binaries for windows and mac will be available in the coming days
enjoy
Thomas
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RELEASE NOTES
# Release 1.9.8
(This release includes features initially planned for version 2.0)
* Electrum servers were upgraded to version 0.9. The new server stores
a Patrica tree of all UTXOs, an idea proposed by Alan Reiner in the
bitcointalk forum. This property allows the client to directly
request the balance of any address. The new commands are:
1. getaddressbalance <address>
2. getaddressunspent <address>
3. getutxoaddress <txid> <pos>
* In addition, two commands for message encryption were added:
1. encrypt <pubkey> <message>
2. decrypt <pubkey> <message>
The encryption algorithm is ECIES, and code was was borrowed from
https://github.com/jackjack-jj/jeeq. In order to know the public
key corresponding to a Bitcoin address in your wallet, you can use
the 'getpubkeys' command. The 'decrypt' command assumes that the
wallet has the private key corresponding to the public key passed as
argument.
* The encrypt and decrypt functions are available in the Qt GUI (from
the menubar, or right click on one of your addresses if you want to
use its public key).
* Command-line commands that require a connection to the network spawn
a daemon, that remains connected and handles subsequent
commands. The daemon terminates itself if it remains unused for more
than one minute. The purpose of this is to make scripting more
efficient. For example, a bash script using many electrum commands
will open only one connection.
📝 Original message:I am happy to announce the release of Electrum 1.9.8.
This release includes some features initially planned for version 2.0.
Packages are available on https://electrum.org/download.html (signed by me)
Binaries for windows and mac will be available in the coming days
enjoy
Thomas
-----------------------
RELEASE NOTES
# Release 1.9.8
(This release includes features initially planned for version 2.0)
* Electrum servers were upgraded to version 0.9. The new server stores
a Patrica tree of all UTXOs, an idea proposed by Alan Reiner in the
bitcointalk forum. This property allows the client to directly
request the balance of any address. The new commands are:
1. getaddressbalance <address>
2. getaddressunspent <address>
3. getutxoaddress <txid> <pos>
* In addition, two commands for message encryption were added:
1. encrypt <pubkey> <message>
2. decrypt <pubkey> <message>
The encryption algorithm is ECIES, and code was was borrowed from
https://github.com/jackjack-jj/jeeq. In order to know the public
key corresponding to a Bitcoin address in your wallet, you can use
the 'getpubkeys' command. The 'decrypt' command assumes that the
wallet has the private key corresponding to the public key passed as
argument.
* The encrypt and decrypt functions are available in the Qt GUI (from
the menubar, or right click on one of your addresses if you want to
use its public key).
* Command-line commands that require a connection to the network spawn
a daemon, that remains connected and handles subsequent
commands. The daemon terminates itself if it remains unused for more
than one minute. The purpose of this is to make scripting more
efficient. For example, a bash script using many electrum commands
will open only one connection.