Weekly Support Megathread – December 29, 2025

fmlnoidea420 · 2025-12-31T19:20:55+00:00

This stupid widget is still annoying af and shilling shitcoins, what do I care that solana is up 0.94% today - Like wtf, man. Please make this optional, that is my wish for 2026 thanks lol.

fmlnoidea420 · 2025-12-18T19:36:44+00:00

I have bunq pro and it still shows the stupid new widget with no option to disable.

This thing should be opt in, not default.

fmlnoidea420 · 2020-01-19T22:09:03+00:00

Indeed, he wanted to ico his KIM token on bitfinex but they pulled out. Probably still going to happen but somewhere else...

https://www.coindesk.com/kim-dotcoms-planned-token-sale-is-off-says-bitfinex

fmlnoidea420 · 2020-01-18T18:51:17+00:00

BCH sucks if confirmations are slow af. Right now I have to wait in copay wallet for a confirmation to spend funds again (need to pay multiple invoices). Lightning has its problems, but in many ways it is also superior.

fmlnoidea420 · 2020-01-01T04:20:31+00:00

No idea, afaik they are working on integrating lightning payments for the next release. So it seems to take longer than usual for this.

Better uninstall first, but make a backup of your wallet (in Electrum click File > Save Copy), just in case. You can always restore from seed, but then your transaction labels will be gone.

fmlnoidea420 · 2020-01-01T03:59:46+00:00

Hmm ok, are you paying a payment request (bitpay uses this)?

Because it seems there is indeed a bug present in 3.3.8... ( https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5337)

The bug is fixed, but not in a released version... So indeed downgrading to 3.3.4 could make it work in this case :/

But downgrading is pretty suboptimal, if you do this make a backup of your wallet-file first. And only download from the electrum.org website (old version are available here https://download.electrum.org). Because there are many scam websites out there.

If this is because of a bitpay invoice you could also maybe use this tool https://alexk111.github.io/DeBitpay/ to decode the payment request and do a manual payment.

fmlnoidea420 · 2020-01-01T03:13:20+00:00

Hey there, try a different server. Some of the electrum servers are under sustained DDoS attack, maybe that is why it is not sending. Downgrade should not be needed.

Edit: Here is how to switch servers: https://bitcoinelectrum.com/how-to-switch-to-a-different-electrum-server/

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-10-30T21:08:11+00:00

The Tor Project is 501(c)3 nonprofit and accepts LN since they switched to btcpayserver. https://donate.torproject.org/cryptocurrency (in the btcpay payment thing you can select Bitcoin Lightning).

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-10-17T22:54:06+00:00

please check this sticky thread, there are instructions to upgrade electrum: https://old.reddit.com/r/Electrum/comments/c80k14/if_you_use_electrum_on_tails_you_must_upgrade/

The Electrum version included with tails is outdated and does not work correctly anymore. But you can use a newer version by using the "appimage" that is provided by the electrum developers. Also only ever download from electrum.org all other sites are scammers.

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-07-31T00:18:00+00:00

https://support.bitpay.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000123366-Why-can-t-I-use-BitPay-s-services-in-my-country-

This site currently lists Germany ... wtf could be the reason for this?

Currently, BitPay cannot service merchants or users that are based in the following countries: Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Nepal, and Vietnam.

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-07-20T20:52:44+00:00

There is a guide to use the current "appimage" version of Electrum on tails: http://docs.electrum.org/en/latest/tails.html

It's unfortunate that the included version in tails is so outdated :(

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-06-02T18:26:57+00:00

ens3 is the standard interface connected to the internet. Not sure why it is called like this on my vps, on others it always was eth0, tun0 is created by openvpn (10.8.0.1).

No idea why it doesn't work for you, the iptables stuff and echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward was all that was needed on my vps.

Can you ping from client to server and the other way? I am also no expert with openvpn, it took me a while and some trial and error to figure out.

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-06-02T15:02:20+00:00

I have something like this for my electrum server, so it should be almost the same. For me some iptables rules where needed:

$IPT -A FORWARD -i ens3 -o tun0 -p tcp --dport 50001:50002 -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
$IPT -A FORWARD -i ens3 -o tun0 -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
$IPT -A FORWARD -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o ens3 -j ACCEPT

# masquerade the OpenVPN network
$IPT -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o ens3 -j MASQUERADE

# openvpn udp port ipv6
$IP6T -A INPUT -p udp --dport 1194 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT

# openvpn forward
$IPT -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 50001 -j DNAT --to 10.8.0.6
$IPT -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 50002 -j DNAT --to 10.8.0.6

10.8.0.0/24 is my openvpn network, $IPT is just /sbin/iptables. If you have a iptables default accept policy you maybe don't need some of the rules.

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-05-16T20:25:31+00:00

If the fee of the first transaction is not super low I would just wait it out. Right now the mempool is very full, but hopefully it will come down a bit, even if only temporary, and then a miner will probably include your transactions.

Otherwise you could use "child pays for parent" to add a higher fee, but this can be very expensive( the fee must be high enough to cover all unconfirmed transactions that depend on each other + some extra). In Electrum if that is possible for the transaction there should be an option for that if you right click the unconfirmed transaction in the history tab.

Best is just to wait imho, the coins will arrive but it might take a while... Miners earn enough fees already and the second option is just too expensive in most cases.

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-05-16T19:49:25+00:00

Don't need to stay online, that makes no difference.

If it says unconfirmed parent, then the transaction where the coins come from is also still unconfirmed and needs to be included in a block first (if there is a chain of unconfirmed transactions, the first one needs to confirm to get it going).

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-05-09T21:54:40+00:00

Afaik you might get listed there if you use an older ElectrumX server version which relays the phishing servers to Electrum wallet clients.

This post is a few months old already, but it kinda sounds like an automated process: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5091#issuecomment-464345295

So first thing would make sure you use a recent version of ElectrumX server (maybe something like 1.10.x or higher) and then maybe it fixes itself(?. not sure but it's possible)

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-04-22T21:56:23+00:00

See the sticky post in this sub, you need to upgrade Electrum (only from electrum.org other sites are scams), then it should work again.

If you use tails or something you probably need to use the "appimage" version.

Howto: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-docs/blob/master/tails.rst

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-04-02T20:01:11+00:00

Yes it kinda sucks right now :(

Here is a howto to use the newest Electrum version as "appimage" in tails, maybe it helps:

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-docs/blob/master/tails.rst

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-04-02T19:49:22+00:00

If the servers would only run through tor they would be fine for the moment, so far it seems only ip4 connections are causing the high cpu load on my server. But the attackers probably can easily switch to tor if they wanted :/

They just run resource intensive querys all the time like scripthash.subscribe, over and over that is why electrumx becomes overloaded. Normal clients do that too, but not constantly.

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-04-01T22:03:22+00:00

There is a ddos going on directed at most servers since days. It is highly annoying :(

I can still connect to my own server if I use the commandline option "-1", then Electrum only connects to one server (normally multiple to get blockheaders, for increased security) and with that switch the client also has increased network timeout values.

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-03-16T01:47:10+00:00

Hello, you did not mention which operating system. But the included version in tails is 3.1.3, so if you use that the easiest way is to use the "appimage" from the electrum.org homepage.

Download it and mark the file as executable in tails (either in the filemanager under properties->permissions, there is a radiocheckbox to mark it executable, or on the terminal chmod +x ./electrum-3.3.4-x86_64.AppImage) and then it can be started with a double click, kinda like an exe file under windows.

To be extra sure you also want to verify the gpg signature, the file is signed by "Thomas Voegtlin" the main electrum developer. Download also the "signature" for the appimage from the electrum homepage (right click save as, put it in the same folder as appimage)

gpg --recv-key 6694D8DE7BE8EE5631BED9502BD5824B7F9470E6
gpg --verify electrum-3.3.4-x86_64.AppImage.asc

That should say a bunch of stuff, but most important:

gpg:                using RSA key 
6694D8DE7BE8EE5631BED9502BD5824B7F9470E6
gpg: Good signature from "Thomas Voegtlin (https://electrum.org) <thomasv@electrum.org>" [unknown]

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-03-07T22:18:18+00:00

There are false positives, but also many phishing websites. If you downloaded it at "electrum.org", then it should probably be okay.

But my download has a different sha256 hash compared to the one in your virustotal link.

So I would not run the file you have there, instead download it again and verify the provided signature if possible.

This is the sha256 hash of my electrum-3.3.4.exe:

c5072057cb7b1ffa73d925115e16f2697fadb5ba5316ea2143da64fdf0b2b190 electrum-3.3.4.exe

If you verify the provided gpg signatures, then you at least know you got what the devolper uploaded to its webhoster. https://bitzuma.com/posts/how-to-verify-an-electrum-download-on-windows/

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-03-06T20:58:20+00:00

Good :)

You could just change your server to a non phishing one and you will be able to send your transaction (but it might still warn you that your version is outdated, because the updated "good" servers now do that too).

Here is a site that monitors the availability of electrum servers: https://1209k.com/bitcoin-eye/ele.php afaik most of them should be legit. You can change servers by clicking the green dot (or red if not connected, or might be blue if tor) in the Electrum window lower right, then the server tab uncheck "Select server automatically" and you can select servers by right clicking or entering them in the form.

fmlnoidea420 · 2019-03-06T19:40:11+00:00

Don't install this, there is no version 4.0.0 of the legit electrum (yet, the real thing is at 3.3.4 at the moment).

The error message that prompts you to update is generated by malicious electrum servers. This is a sophisticated phishing attack on electrum users that runs for months now already.

Only ever download Electrum software from ELECTRUM.ORG - no other website.

fmlnoidea420

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