electrum Command Examples

Ergonomic Bitcoin wallet and private key management. More information: https://electrum.org.

• Create a new wallet:

electrum {{[-w|--wallet]}} {{path/to/new_wallet.dat}} create

• Restore an existing wallet from seed offline:

electrum {{[-w|--wallet]}} {{path/to/recovery_wallet.dat}} restore {{[-o|--offline]}}

• Create a signed transaction offline:

electrum mktx {{recipient}} {{amount}} {{[-f|--fee]}} 0.0000001 {{[-F|--from-addr]}} {{from}} {{[-o|--offline]}}

• Display all wallet receiving addresses:

electrum listaddresses -a

• Sign a message:

electrum signmessage {{address}} {{message}}

• Verify a message:

electrum verifymessage {{address}} {{signature}} {{message}}

• Connect only to a specific electrum-server instance:

electrum {{[-p|--proxy]}} socks5:{{127.0.0.1}}:9050 {{[-s|--server]}} {{56ckl5obj37gypcu.onion}}:50001:t {{[-1|--oneserver]}}