### Step 3. Download Bitcoind stable from git & patch it
-In order for the latest versions of Electrum to work properly we will need to use
-bitcoind 0.8.1 stable to 0.8.3 stable.
-0.8.3 can be downloaded from github or sourceforge and it needs to be patched with an electrum specific patch.
-A higher version than 0.8.3 i.e. git head is currently unsupported because the patch needs to be ported
-
- $ cd ~/src && wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.3/bitcoin-0.8.3-linux.tar.gz
- $ tar xfz bitcoin-0.8.3-linux.tar.gz
- $ cd bitcoin-0.8.3-linux/src
+In order for the latest versions of Electrum to work properly we currently recommend bitcoind 0.8.4 stable.
+0.8.4 can be downloaded from github or sourceforge and it needs to be patched with an electrum specific patch.
+bitcoin@master i.e. git head may not currently work with electrum-server even if the patch applies cleanly.
+
+ $ cd ~/src && wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.4/bitcoin-0.8.4-linux.tar.gz
+ $ tar xfz bitcoin-0.8.4-linux.tar.gz
+ $ cd bitcoin-0.8.4-linux/src
$ patch -p1 < ~/src/electrum/server/patch/patch
$ cd src
$ make USE_UPNP= -f makefile.unix
- $ ln -s ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.3-linux/src/src/bitcoind ~/bin/bitcoind
+ $ strip ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.4-linux/src/src/bitcoind
+ $ ln -s ~/src/bitcoin-0.8.4-linux/src/src/bitcoind ~/bin/bitcoind
### Step 4. Configure and start bitcoind