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Please Help With Electrum Issue

by /u/WhoKnowsBruh · 0 votes · 2020-08-10 21:23:00

I have the newest version of tails and everything has been running great since the upgrade (for a few weeks now). Yesterday, my dumbass tried installing Blockstream Green Wallet (long story why I felt like I needed to do this at the time) onto Tails to see if it would work. It did not work. Could not get it running at all, even though I tried downloading their Linux desktop version (that is also relatively a new release). Saved the file and extracted, etc. in the Tor Browser folder, since I figured it should not mess with anything in my persistence and should be removed upon rebooting Tails. Now, some weird things are happening with Electrum. Most of the time upon starting Tails, when I click on Electrum to open the program, it will show it wants to open on the top bar of the home screen, but disappears and never opens. BUT, sometimes it will open and run just fine. Also, now there is a random, very small incoming transaction (like 10 cents worth) of bitcoin incoming, but remaining unconfirmed, in my Electrum wallet. I never made a transaction anywhere near that small, so does not make any sense. I have been using Electrum for quite some time, and never experienced any of these issues. I can only assume that trying to install Blockstream Green Wallet screwed with the Electrum files on Tails, considering all of these issues came RIGHT AFTER trying to install the Blockstream Green Wallet. Any ideas what in the world could be happening? Is there any security risks or concerns from me trying to download Blockstream Green Wallet onto my Tails when I have a lot of persistence data? Thanks in advance.


User: /u/WhoKnowsBruh

Thanks a lot, that's very helpful. So, I do not see any files anywhere that deals with the new wallet I tried downloading, so I am pretty sure all files associated with that wallet are gone. But, is there anything I can do to be sure that any files I tried downloading will not affect any of my other files or anything in the future? If I wanted to be 100% safe, would I need to make another Tails and just forget about this one because now there could potentially be harmful files, etc. on this one that I do not know about? Also, that really small transaction (dust attack) just randomly went away once I actually made an incoming transaction to my Electrum wallet. Super weird, right? No history of it ever even incoming as soon as I sent a legit incoming amount.