1. Recovering your wallet from its seed
    1. Backing up your seed
    2. Fixing a corrupted wallet

Electrum è un client Bitcoin che è particolarmente adatto al contesto di Tails poiché:

  • Potete usare il vostro portafoglio da dispositivi differenti ed evitare la perdita dei bitcoin in un errore di backup o del computer.
  • Electrum non scarica la blockchain quindi non ci sono tempi di attesa quando viene avviato.
  • Per ulteriore sicurezza potete firmare le transazioni durante una sessione di lavoro offline.

Per avviare Electrum seleziona Applicazioni ▸ Internet ▸ Electrum Bitcoin Wallet .

Per imparare ad usare Electrum leggi la documentazione di Electrum.

For an explanation of how Bitcoin works in simple terms, read The In-Depth Guide to Bitcoin That Won’t Leave You Frustrated.

Bitcoin is not anonymous.

To make it harder to relate your different transactions, you should use a different receiving address for each transaction. Electrum automatically generates new addresses for you to use.

Electrum uses mBTC as the default base unit. 1 mBTC = 0.001 BTC. To change the base unit, choose Tools ▸ Preferences.

Do not blindly trust the bitcoin balance that Electrum displays as unconfirmed. Wait for transactions to be confirmed.

Recovering your wallet from its seed

Backing up your seed

Your wallet can be recovered entirely from its seed: the chain of words generated by Electrum when creating the wallet. But if you lose your seed, you lose your entire wallet.

That's why we recommend you both:

  • Turn on the Electrum Bitcoin Wallet feature of the Persistent Storage to store your bitcoin wallet and preferences across separate working sessions.

  • Backup your seed outside of Tails. For example, you can write it down on a piece of paper and keep it with you.

Fixing a corrupted wallet

If Electrum fails to start or stays minimized, maybe your Electrum folder is corrupted.

To recover your wallet from its seed:

  1. Make sure that Electrum is closed.

  2. Open your Home folder.

  3. Fai clic sul bottone mostra menù nella barra del titolo e seleziona Mostra file nascosti.

  4. Open the .electrum folder.

  5. Delete the wallets folder.

  6. Start Electrum.

  7. When creating a new wallet choose I already have a seed and specify the seed of your wallet.