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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/[deleted]

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? Usually under Linux when you deleted the folder/file of the tool you downloaded then it is gone (unlike Windows where a program pukes his stuff all over during installation). But Tails offers the possibility to enable the "Dotfiles" in your persistent storage which as far as i know allows a software to make links in Tails and interact with the OS when you started the software for the first time. So if you had enabled "Dotfiles" then the safest solution would be to make a new fresh Tails and use the new one. The other one could still serve as a backup Tails: https://tails.boum.org/doc/first_steps/persistence/copy/index.en.html 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. Then it probably was just some weird error and not a dust attack. Maybe even that was the reason why your Electrum was a bitch.