Personal speculation, in the current bear market, Bitcoin transaction costs are very low, which can be said to be a good time to organize assets, in addition, the funds are transferred from the legacy address to SegWit "bc1" address, can effectively reduce transaction costs. Redistribution of wallets can spread the risk of a single point of failure, which is a common financial network security strategy.
The Bitcoin Core development team recently updated its list of 73 Bitcoin startups that have announced plans to support SegWit. The list includes well-known Bitcoin wallet service providers Blockchain.info, AirBitz, BreadWallet, TREZOR, Samourai Wallet, Ledger Hardware Wallet, Electrum, GreenAdress, KeepKey and Mycelium.
Google researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered the Bitcoin wallet Electrum.
According to slow fog zone news, Electrum fake upgrade tips of the phishing attack has stolen at least 200 BTC, this attack by upgrading Electrum alone can not be avoided, the need for the entire ecological service to make corresponding changes (because Electrum this client is not a full node, and then on the transaction broadcast and the corresponding service side of the message communication, attackers can also deploy malicious server). Slow fog zones remind users that phishing attacks like Electrum require long-term vigilance. The slow fog zone has previously issued an alert for selectrum phishing updates, and hackers who attacked Electrum wallets used Electrum's software to unusually construct malicious software update prompts to induce users to update and download malware usage.
A new repo qtum-electrum-new was built to add qtum-related features to the latest code for Bitcoin electrum.
Have you ever used the Electrum Bitcoin wallet before? How do you experience and rate this wallet?
If you want to import a private key into a hardware wallet such as a ledger, you need to perform additional steps. First, you need to import the private key into a wallet such as Electrum before you can send coins to your ledger address.
By default, Bitcoin does not index transactions. To find transactions other than those associated with your wallet, you must first open the index in the profile. Go to Settings option Open profile to open Bitcoin profile (bitcoin.conf)
and open the web page, then your wallet may have been compromised. Particularly paranoid people may want to send all BTCs from their old Electrum wallets to the newly generated Electrum wallet.
Once it hass infected a machine, the stealers to retrieve sensitive information from both Chromium-and Firefox-browser baseds (Chromium, Chrome, Opera, Comodo Dragon, Yandex, Vivaldi, Firefox, Pale Moon, Cyberfox, BlackHawk, K-Meleon, etc.), as well as from Filezilla and cryptocurrency wallets (Bitcoin Core, Ethereum, Electrum LTC, Monero, Electrum, Dash, Litecoin, ZCash, and many others)