Electrum is a lightweight bitcoin client.
Electrum protects from losing bitcoins in a backup mistake or computer failure. It allows recovery of wallet from a passphrase which you can learn by heart or write it down on a paper.
Since electrum does not download the entire bitcoin block chain there is no waiting time when the client is started.

-g GUI, --gui=GUI: Select user interface, possible values are qt, lite, gtk or text
-w WALLET_PATH, --wallet=WALLET_PATH: Use wallet from WALLET_PATH, default is electrum.dat.
-o, --offline: Remain offline.
-a, --all: Show all addresses.
-b, --balance: Show the balance of listed addresses
-l, --labels: Show the labels of listed addresses
-f TX_FEE, --fee=TX_FEE: set tx fee
-F FROM_ADDR, --fromad: dr=FROM_ADDR

set source address for payto/mktx. if it isn't in the wallet, it will ask for the private key unless supplied in the format public_key:private_key. It's not saved in the wallet.

-c CHANGE_ADDR, --changeaddr=CHANGE_ADDR

set the change address for payto/mktx. default is a spare address, or the source address if it's not in the wallet.

-s SERVER, --server=SERVER: set server host:port:protocol, where protocol is t or h
-p PROXY, --proxy=PROXY: set proxy [type:]host[:port], where type is socks4,socks5 or http
-v, --verbose: show debugging information
-P, --portable: portable wallet
-L LANGUAGE, --lang=LANGUAGE: default language used in GUI
-u, --usb: Turn on support for hardware wallets (EXPERIMENTAL).

AUTHORS

Electrum client was initially written by ThomasV <thomasv@gitorious>
This manual page was written by Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev@gmail.com> for Debian Project (but can be used by others).

electrum

bitcoin wallet

TLDR

Create a new wallet

Restore an existing wallet from seed offline

Create a signed transaction offline

Display all wallet receiving addresses

Sign a message

Verify a message

Connect only to a specific electrum-server instance

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

AUTHORS