Electrum-LTC
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Electrum-LTC is a simple, but powerful Litecoin wallet. A twelve-word security passphrase (or "seed") leaves intruders stranded and your peace of mind intact. Keep it on paper, or in your head... and never worry about losing your litecoins to theft or hardware failure. No waiting, no lengthy blockchain downloads and no syncing to the network.

NOTICE

Electrum-LTC is a community-maintained port of Electrum, the Bitcoin wallet, to Litecoin. It is not an official product of Electrum Technologies GmbH, which does not support it.

IMPORTANT NOTICE (February 2019)

Versions of Electrum and Electrum-LTC older than 3.3.3 are vulnerable to a phishing attack, where malicious servers are able to display a message asking users to download a fake version of Electrum. To prevent user exposure, versions older than 3.3 can no longer connect to public servers, and must be upgraded. Do not download software updates from sources other than electrum.org and electrumltc.org.

  Always verify the digital signatures of the files you download! (example procedures) 

Latest Release: 3.3.8.1 (released 2019-08-08)

 Make sure you back up your wallet/seed if upgrading from an earlier version. 

Standalone Executable (checksums; signature by Pooler)
Windows Installer (checksums; signature by Pooler)
Portable version (checksums; signature by Pooler) 

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pyqt5 python3-pip python3-dev libssl-dev
sudo pip3 install scrypt
sudo pip3 install https://electrum-ltc.org/download/Electrum-LTC-3.1.3.1.tar.gz
electrum-ltc

Executable (checksums; signature by Pooler)

Sources Electrum-LTC-3.1.3.1.tar.gz (checksums; signature by Pooler); Electrum-LTC-3.1.3.1.zip (checksums; signature by Pooler)
  • Use instantly: Electrum doesn't download the blockchain or require your computer to sync with the network. Instead, it is maintained on a tamper-proof, remote server.
  • Safe: Your unique twelve word pass-phrase and private keys are never sent to the Electrum-LTC servers. All information received from the server is verified using Simplified Payment Verification (SPV).
  • Forgiving: Never be concerned about losing your wallet! With your unique twelve-word seed, you can always recover and restore your wallet...even if you sustain the worst of hardware or software failures.
  • Cold storage: Use Electrum-LTC to generate and manage your secure offline wallets, enabling you to take some or all of your funds completely offline.
  • Accessible: Export your private keys to other Litecoin clients, at your convenience.

Development Project page on GitHub
Want to run your own server? ElectrumX
IRC Channel #electrum-ltc (web chat) on Freenode
Forums LitecoinTalk, r/litecoin
Original Announcement Old Litecoin Forum (archived, read-only)


Is there a version of Electrum-LTC for Android?
Android is not currently supported. If you are looking for a mobile wallet, check out LoafWallet, Jaxx or Coinomi.
Does Electrum-LTC support Segwit?
Support for native Segwit transactions is in the works. However, this is not needed for normal operation, even now that the Segwit soft fork has activated.
What is the Seed?
Electrum-LTC uses a 128-bit random seed to generate your private keys. The seed can be represented as a 12-word mnemonic code. You do not need to perform regular backups, because your wallet can be recovered from the seed that you can memorize or write on paper.

Seed Example

What is the gap limit?
The gap limit is the maximum number of consecutive unused addresses in your deterministic sequence of addresses. Electrum-LTC uses a gap limit to stop looking for addresses. This is set to 5 by default, so the client generates new addresses until 5 unused addresses are found.
What does it mean to "freeze" an address?
When you freeze an address, the funds in that address will not be used for sending litecoins. You cannot send litecoins if you don't have enough funds in non-frozen addresses.
What should I do with my old Litecoin addresses and wallet when switching to Electrum-LTC?
The best way to switch to Electrum is to send all the litecoins you have on your old wallet to one of the addresses on your Electrum wallet. This way you'll have all your litecoins secured with your seed. Older versions of Electrum could import private keys from another client, but then you had to backup those keys separately, as they could not be restored by the Electrum seed.
Where is my wallet file located?
A default wallet file called default_wallet is created under the /wallets folder when you first run the application. On Windows, this folder is located in \Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Local\Electrum-LTC. On all other operating systems, it is located in ~/.electrum-ltc.
What is a blockchain?
A blockchain is a long record of every single transaction ever made. Each litecoin traded for a good or service is marked on the ledger with a transaction id and the origination and target wallet addresses.
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