Electrum - Lightweight Bitcoin client

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Licence: MIT Licence
Author: Thomas Voegtlin
Language: Python (>= 3.8)

Getting started

(If you've come here looking to simply run Electrum, you may download Electrum wallet here.)

Electrum itself is pure Python, and so are most of the required dependencies, but not everything. The following sections describe how to run from source, but here is a TL;DR:

$ sudo apt-get install libsecp256k1-dev
$ python3 -m pip install --user ".[gui,crypto]"

Not pure-python dependencies

If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5

For elliptic curve operations, libsecp256k1 is a required dependency:

$ sudo apt-get install libsecp256k1-dev

Alternatively, when running from a cloned repository, a script is provided to build libsecp256k1 yourself:

$ sudo apt-get install automake libtool
$ ./contrib/make_libsecp256k1.sh

Due to the need for fast symmetric ciphers, cryptography is required. Install from your package manager (or from pip):

$ sudo apt-get install python3-cryptography