Qtum Electrum - Lightweight Qtum client
Qtum Electrum is a lightweight Qtum wallet forked from Electrum.
Licence: MIT Licence Language: Python (>= 3.6)
Getting started
Electrum is a pure python application. If you want to use the Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies:
// linux sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5 // macOS (thanks @puruoni) brew install pyqt5 export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/qt@5/bin:$PATH" export PATH="/opt/homebrew/opt/pyqt@5/5.15.4_1/bin:$PATH" // *** In the case of pyenv *** cd /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pyqt@5/5.15.7_1/lib/python3.10/site-packages cp -pr * /Users/[username]/.pyenv/versions/3.10.8/lib/python3.10/site-packages/.
For elliptic curve operations, libsecp256k1 is a required dependency:
// linux sudo apt-get install libsecp256k1-0 // macOS brew tap cuber/homebrew-libsecp256k1 brew install libsecp256k1
Alternatively, when running from a cloned repository, a script is provided to build libsecp256k1 yourself:
sudo apt-get install automake libtool ./contrib/make_libsecp256k1.sh
Due to the need for fast symmetric ciphers, either one of pycryptodomex or cryptography is required. Install from your package manager (or from pip):
sudo apt-get install python3-cryptography
If you would like hardware wallet support, see this.
Development version (git clone)
Check out the code from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum-electrum.git cd qtum-electrum git submodule update --init
Run install (this should install dependencies):
python3 -m pip install -r ./contrib/requirements/requirements-eth.txt python3 -m pip install --user -e . // fix protobuf on M1 macOS export PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python
Create translations (optional):
sudo apt-get install python-requests gettext ./contrib/make_locale
Finally, to start Electrum:
./run_electrum
Creating Binaries
Linux (tarball)
See contrib/build-linux/sdist/README.md.
Linux (AppImage)
See contrib/build-linux/appimage/README.md.
Mac OS X / macOS
See contrib/osx/README.md.
Windows
See contrib/build-wine/README.md.
Android
See electrum/gui/kivy/Readme.md.