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Elymus - Lightweight Bitcoin NewYork (BTC2) Client

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Elymus is lightweight Bitcoin NewYork (BTC2) client. It is powered by electrum 3.0.5. Elymus only supports BTC2, not compatible bitcoin and electrum anymore. Elymus client only works with Elymus servers.

electrum: Licence: MIT Licence Author: Thomas Voegtlin Language: Python Homepage: https://electrum.org/

Getting started

Elymus is a pure python application. You will see about 10 minutes blocker header synchronization from server for the first time use. From the network window, you know the completion of sync.

Linux

Install the Qt dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5

Downloaded the official package, then you can run Elymus from its root directory, without installing it on your system.

./elymus

BitExchange Hardware Wallet Support:

This support needs the latest firmware of BitExchange.

  1. Install python-trezor

    Pre-requirement: sudo apt-get install python3-dev cython3 libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev

    Requirements: sudo -H pip3 install setuptools sudo -H pip3 install trezor

  2. Install hidapi

    Pre-requirement: sudo apt-get install python-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libudev-dev

    Requirements: sudo pip install --upgrade setuptools sudo pip install hidapi

  3. Install trezor bridge

    Go to webpage https://wallet.trezor.io/data/bridge/latest/index.html to download the corresponding package for your system. For example, I am using Ubuntu 16.04, it is trezor-bridge_2.0.13_amd64.deb Install the trezor bridge package in linux

Then run ./elymus and follow the instructions step by step.

Windows

Download and install the python3 from https://www.python.org/downloads/. It is python3 here!!! current version is 3.6.4

Install the Qt dependencies: open windows cmd window, go to python install directory, in my windows 10, the default installed directory is "C:UsersxxxxAppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython36-32"

"python dir"scripts/pip.exe install pyqt5

Downlaod the official package, the run Elymus from its directory.

"python dir"python.exe elymus

windows installer of Elymus client will be released later.

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