From August to September, the Bitcoin wallet Electrum was phished twice by hackers. According to statistics from various parties, the phishing attacks forged Electrum upgrade notifications have stolen at least 1,450 BTC worth $11.6 million.
Cosmos vs Polkadot vs ArcBlock.
In this demo, Electrum developer Chris Belcher shows how to set up and use an Electrum personal server.
Researchers at the popular Bitcoin wallet app Electrum have uncovered a malicious shanzhai act aimed at stealing seed keys. The suspicious shanzhai wallet, called Electrum Pro, appeared online in March and has been labeled malware since.
In December 2018, Slow Fog first discovered and alerted an attacker to a messaging flaw using the Electrum wallet client, forcing an "update prompt" to pop up when a user transfers money, inducing users to update and download malware to carry out currency theft attacks.
Bitcoin desktop wallet client Electrum has released a 4.0 beta version, adding several important updates, including support for the Lightning network, nearly a year after the previous version of Electrum, 3.3.8 (last July). In the 4.0 beta version, Electrum mainly added features such as PSBT (partially signed Bitcoin transactions), Lightning Network, watchtowers (暸 watchtowers) and Submarineswaps (subliminal switching). (Github.
At this time, the SPV-based Electrum wallet became the new favorite of Bitcoin players. Especially for small partners who are new to Bitcoin, editors recommend using electrum wallets.
Now, if you try to connect directly to this Docker container using the curl command or using a browser, you will encounter a connection failure error (see below). Because you can't connect directly to a Docker container, why? Docker's documentation simply explains that port 80 is vulnerable... The explanation is a little unclear. But don't worry, I'll explain it in more detail in the next section.
qtum-electrum adds support for offline staking.
According to media reports, the Bitcoin Cash Development Community recently announced that it will implement a hard fork on January 14 to modify the BCH transaction address format. The new address format is developed by Bitcoin abc developer Amaury.