-Electrum - a lightweight Bitcoin client and its server
+Electrum - lightweight Bitcoin client
Licence: GNU GPL v3
-Author: thomasv1@gmx.de
+Author: Thomas Voegtlin
Language: Python
+Homepage: https://electrum.org/
+
+
+1. GETTING STARTED
+------------------
+
+To run Electrum from this directory, just do:
+
+ ./electrum
+
+If you install Electrum on your system, you can run it from any
+directory:
+
+ sudo python setup.py install
+ electrum
+
+
+To start Electrum from your web browser, see
+http://electrum.org/bitcoin_URIs.html
+
+
+
+2. HOW OFFICIAL PACKAGES ARE CREATED
+------------------------------------
+
+python mki18n.py
+pyrcc4 icons.qrc -o gui/qt/icons_rc.py
+python setup.py sdist --format=zip,gztar
+
+On Mac OS X:
+
+ # On port based installs
+ sudo python setup-release.py py2app
+
+ # On brew installs
+ ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" sudo python setup-release.py py2app --includes sip
+
+ sudo hdiutil create -fs HFS+ -volname "Electrum" -srcfolder dist/Electrum.app dist/electrum-VERSION-macosx.dmg
+
-Main features:
-
-Client:
- * The client uses a deterministic wallet; if the wallet is lost, it can be recovered from its passphrase.
- * The client does not download the Bitcoin blockchain; it requests that information from the server
- * The client does not send its private keyes to the server.
- * The client does not need to open a port, it simply polls the server for updates.
-
-Server:
- * The server uses a patched version of the Bitcoin daemon that can forward transactions, and bitcoin-abe
- * The server code is open source. Anyone can run a server, removing single points of failure concerns.
- * The server knows which set of Bitcoin addresses belong to the same wallet, which might raise concerns about anonymity.
-However, it should be possible to write clients capable of using several servers.
-
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-INSTALLATION
-
-Client:
-1. install python-ecdsa and pycrypto:
- * sudo easy_install ecdsa
- * sudo easy_install pycrypto
-2. run the client:
- python electrum
-
-Server:
-
-1. patch and recompile the bitcoin daemon - bitcoinrpc.diff
-2. install bitcoin-abe
-3. install bitcoinrpc, patch it too
-3. launch the server:
- python server.py