That is copied from the Electrum web site at this time:
July thirty first, 2017.
Electrum is a Bitcoin pockets created by Thomas Voegtlin in 2011.
Electrum is distributed by Electrum Applied sciences GmbH, an organization
registered in Germany, utilizing the web site https://electrum.org
Electrum customers who aren’t interested by Bitcoin Money don’t must
fear nor to take any explicit motion. The next observe is barely
for customers who need to entry their Bitcoin Money (BCC).
“Electron Money” is a fork of Electrum for Bitcoin Money. Electron Money
is just not endorsed by Electrum. It’s open supply, and binaries
(executables information) can be found for Home windows, OSX and
Android. Nevertheless, once you run binaries as a substitute of supply code, you
haven’t any assure that they match the supply code. This is the reason pockets
binaries are normally signed by builders. A digital signature engages
the responsability of the one who indicators.
The one who distributes the Electron Money binaries has determined to
stay nameless, and makes use of the pretend identify “Jonald Fyookball” so as
to signal Electron Money binaries. Thus, if these binaries comprise code
that’s designed to steal your bitcoins, the creator of the theft will
be nameless and stroll away safely along with your funds.
This hazard is exacerbated by the truth that the default behaviour of
Electron Money is to silently copy all of your Electrum wallets into its
personal listing. Thus, if you happen to run Electron Money on a machine the place you
beforehand used Electrum, all of your pre-existing wallets will likely be
accessible in Electron Money, and you’ll solely must enter your
password to be able to expose your bitcoins to potential theft.
Due to this fact, customers who need to run the Electron Money binaries ought to do
it on a separate machine, that doesn’t have their Bitcoin pockets. We
suggest to proceed as follows:
-
Set up Electron Money on a machine that doesn’t have your
Electrum wallets. -
Wait till the BCC onerous fork has taken place, and some BCC blocks
have been mined. -
Transfer all of your Electrum funds to a brand new Electrum pockets. It will
transfer solely your BTC, and never your BCC, as a result of the BCC blockchain has
replay safety. Wait till the transaction is confirmed. -
Enter the seed of your (now empty) previous pockets or personal keys in
Electron Money. For the reason that BTC have been moved to a brand new pockets,
coming into your previous seed in Electron Money is not going to put your BTC funds
in danger.
Following these 4 simple steps it is possible for you to to entry your BCC
with out compromising your BTC.
