Licence: MIT Licence

Qtum Electrum is a lightweight Qtum wallet forked from Electrum

You can download latest release here.

If you are a developer, Qtum Electrum is a pure python application. If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5

If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), you can run Electrum from its root directory, without installing it on your system; all the python dependencies are included in the 'packages' directory. To run Electrum from its root directory, just do:

./electrum

If you cloned the git repository, you need to compile extra files before you can run Electrum. Read the next section, "Development Version".

Qtum Electrum standard wallet uses bip44 derivation path with coin_type set to 88 which not compatible with the current qtum mobile wallet.

If you want to be compatible with the qtum mobile wallet, you need to choose "Qtum mobile wallet compatible" to create or restore your wallet.

If you want to import private master key from Qtum Qt Core wallet, you need to choose "Qtum Qt Core wallet compatible" to restore your wallet.

Check out the code from Github:

git clone git@github.com:qtumproject/qtum-electrum.git
cd qtum-electrum

Install dependencies::

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Compile the icons file for Qt:

sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools
pyrcc5 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py -py3

Compile the protobuf description file:

sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler
protoc --proto_path=lib/ --python_out=lib/ lib/paymentrequest.proto

Create translations (optional):

sudo apt-get install python-pycurl gettext

on osx:
brew install gettext
brew link gettext --force

./contrib/make_locale

To create binaries, create the 'packages' directory:

./contrib/make_packages

This directory contains the python dependencies used by Electrum.

# edit PyQt5/uic/port_v2/ascii_upper.py
change string.maketrans to str.maketrans

# install py2app
sudo pip3 install py2app==0.12

sudo python3 setup-release.py py2app

sudo hdiutil create -fs HFS+ -volname "Qtum Electrum" -srcfolder dist/Qtum\ Electrum.app dist/qtum-electrum-VERSION-macosx.dmg

See contrib/build-wine/README.md file.

See gui/kivy/Readme.md file.