A Focus on the Bitcoin Cash Ecosystem: 02 Electron Cash
What is Electron Cash?
Electron Cash is a free, powerful, feature-rich, and open-source Bitcoin Cash wallet.
What are the features that make it special?
Privacy
Electron Cash integrates CashFushion to maximise the privacy of transactions.
Multi-signature support
Spending from Electron Cash can be limited to requiring multiple signatures, thus protecting the wallet from abuse if additional protection is needed.
Cryptographic messaging and signatures
Through the wallet, users can send messages privately and securely through cryptographic methods, as well as use this for authentic signatures.
Human-readable account names
Electron Cash supports Cash Accounts, allowing for human-readable account names that are easy to share in conversation.
Import and export records
The ability to import and export transaction records facilitates financial records and accounting, particularly helpful for tax purposes.
Decentralized servers
Electron Cash servers are decentralized and redundant. The wallet is never down.
Desktop and mobile versions
Electron Cash has desktop versions for Windows, OSX, and Linux, as well as Android and iOS versions for mobile.
Supports all major hardware wallets
Make full use of hardware wallets such as Ledger and Trezor without connecting to proprietary services.
Integrates plugins and smart contracts
Electron Cash works with applications such as Flipstarter, and smart contracts for timed transfers, last will, and recurring payments.
Want to learn more? Check out the links and tutorials below:
Download Electron Cash: https://electroncash.org/
YouTube Tutorials:
1. Introduction
2. Creating a Standard Wallet
3. The History Tab
4. Sending and Receiving
5. Cold Storage Wallets
6. Recovering a Wallet, Creating a Watch Only Wallet
7. Creating a Hardware Wallet
8. The Tools Menu
9. Creating a Multi-Signature Wallet
10. Messaging
11. Preferences
12. Wallet Drop-Down and Contacts
13. CashShuffle
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