# Electrum (`extras/electrum.sh`)

## SYNOPSIS

```
wrenctl install electrum                     install it
wrenctl remove electrum                      remove it (wallets in ~/.electrum stay)
wrenctl manual electrum                      print the manual steps below

electrum                                     start it (or Super+d, then electrum)
```

Electrum is a Bitcoin wallet, installed from Debian's own archive, which
keeps it patched along with the rest of the system. It runs on Wayland
through qtwayland5. Wallets are kept in `~/.electrum`: write down the seed it
shows when you make one, because nothing else can bring a lost wallet back. When Tor runs on this computer (apt over Tor, remote access, the onion site), installing asks before Electrum's first run (yes by default) whether it reaches its servers through that Tor (`proxy` `socks5:127.0.0.1:9050` in `~/.electrum/config`).

## LIMITS

- It runs as you: anything that can read your files can read `~/.electrum`.
- It asks a server about your addresses to learn your balance; nothing here sets up Tor or your own server for it.
- Wren Linux doesn't back up your seed, and can't.
- Debian's version can be a little behind the newest release.

## MANUAL INSTALL

```
# Electrum, and Qt's Wayland support so it runs without XWayland
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends electrum qtwayland5
electrum
```

To undo (your wallets stay in `~/.electrum`; back them up before deleting anything):

```
# Remove Electrum and its library
sudo apt purge electrum python3-electrum
sudo apt autoremove --purge
```