Wallets such as Bitcoin Core and Electrum have all had modified packages posted by phishing websites for users to download, resulting in currency theft.

If you pay online using cryptocurrencies, Electrum is ideal for keeping a small amount of currency ready for use.

Earlier this month, Electrum detected a DoS attack on its network, allegedly launched by a malicious botnet with more than 140,000 machines, designed to provide Electrum to users.

Last month, GitHub discovered a fake Electrum wallet called "Electrvm" designed to steal user funds. In February this year, the wallet was encrypted.

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A new repo qtum-electrum-new has been built to add qtum-related features to the latest code for Bitcoin electrum.

The fact that not many people know is that Esplora is bundled with a based and optimized Electrum server. This Electrum server is derived from Electrs and is now maintained separately by the Blockstream engineering team. Over the past two years, Esplora has become one of the fastest and most scalable Electrum server solutions available for Bitcoin due to continuous updates and performance optimization. Esplora is also the only Electrum server that supports liquid networks.

Electrum is a well-known light wallet for Bitcoin that adds new features such as server authentication using SSL to prevent MITM attacks. So unlike other Bitcoin light wallets, Electrum cannot communicate directly with different versions of Bitcoin full nodes, and each startup connects to electrumserver to communicate, and electrum.

Why use Electrum? Here are a dozen of the benefits of electrum wallets.