Electrum: Easy Bitcoin client

Because of the events on the stock exchanges, only the lazy did not read about what Bitcoin is, but many not only read, but also wanted to buy themselves a “piece of happiness” in the hope of further growth of the currency.

But many people lost the desire after they learned that for the work of the original wallet you need to download about 9GB of data.
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Fortunately, there is an alternative to the "native" client - Electrum.

Electrum differs from the original client in that its work does not require loading the entire block chain, the client downloads only the data necessary for his work, which is about 100MB , which is significantly less than 9 GB required by the original client.

After the first launch, the client will offer you to create a new wallet or restore the old one:



Then he will offer to choose an initialization server (Without it, the wallet will also work, but this way you will quickly find peers)

Now you will be offered to copy or memorize a sequence of words:



With the help of them you can restore the wallet in Electrum

That's it, the Client is installed and ready for operations.



But the most enjoyable part of this client is the minimalistic interface:



Summing up, we can say that Electrum is an ideal wallet for those who want to have Bitcoins in it, store them locally, and not on web services.

Check the operation of the system, you can get free bitcoins on these sites:



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