spesmilo/electrum
Electrum Bitcoin Wallet
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #384 of 3,103 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 12%).
The project lists 353 contributors on GitHub.
Gained 52% more stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.
Use Cases & Benefits
- A lightweight Bitcoin wallet client implemented in Python for managing Bitcoin transactions and keys securely.
- Offers fast, resource-efficient Bitcoin management with support for hardware wallets and the Lightning Network.
- Use for securely storing and transacting Bitcoin on desktop environments with minimal resource usage.
- Use for integrating Bitcoin payment capabilities into Python applications leveraging Electrum's APIs.
- Use for developing and testing Bitcoin wallet features with access to a mature open-source codebase.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
(If you've come here looking to simply run Electrum, you may download it here.)
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+95 stars over 81 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +5 on Aug 5.
Forks
3.5K+40
Open issues
1.2K+25
Compared with peers in Blockchain
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 18, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ethereum/go-ethereum | 51.4K | +0 | 75 | today |
| OpenZeppelin/openzeppelin-contracts | 27.3K | +0 | 75 | 80 days ago |
| ethereum/EIPs | 14.0K | +0 | 40 | — |
| foundry-rs/foundry | 10.7K | +0 | 40 | today |
| spesmilo/electrum | 8.6K | +0 | 75 | — |
| OneKeyHQ/app-monorepo | 2.5K | +0 | 75 | today |
| Category median | 14.0K | +0 | 75 | — |
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