.TH electrum 1 "23 June 2013" "electrum"
.SH NAME
electrum \- Lightweight bitcoin client
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B electrum [options] command [options]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Electrum is a lightweight bitcoin client.
.br
Electrum protects from losing bitcoins in a backup mistake or computer
failure. It allows recovery of wallet from a passphrase which you can
learn by heart or write it down on a paper.
.br
Since electrum does not download the entire bitcoin block chain there
is no waiting time when the client is started.

.TP
\fB\-g GUI, \-\-gui=GUI\fR
Select user interface, possible values are  qt, lite, gtk or text
.TP
\fB\-w WALLET_PATH, \-\-wallet=WALLET_PATH\fR
Use wallet from WALLET_PATH, default is electrum.dat.
.TP
\fB\-o, \-\-offline\fR
Remain offline.
.TP
\fB\-a, \-\-all\fR
Show all addresses.
.TP
\fB\-b, \-\-balance\fR
Show the balance of listed addresses
.TP
\fB\-l, \-\-labels\fR
Show the labels of listed addresses
.TP
\fB\-f TX_FEE, \-\-fee=TX_FEE\fR
set tx fee
.TP
\fB\-F FROM_ADDR, \-\-fromad
dr=FROM_ADDR\fR
.PP
set source address for payto/mktx. if it isn't in the wallet, it will
ask for the private key unless supplied in the format
public_key:private_key. It's not saved in the wallet.
.TP
\fB\-c CHANGE_ADDR, \-\-changeaddr=CHANGE_ADDR\fR
.PP
set the change address for payto/mktx. default is a spare address, or
the source address if it's not in the wallet.
.TP
\fB\-s SERVER, \-\-server=SERVER\fR
set server host:port:protocol, where protocol is t or h
.TP
\fB\-p PROXY, \-\-proxy=PROXY\fR
set proxy [type:]host[:port], where type is socks4,socks5 or http
.TP
\fB\-v, \-\-verbose\fR
show debugging information
.TP
\fB\-P, \-\-portable\fR
portable wallet
.TP
\fB\-L LANGUAGE, \-\-lang=LANGUAGE\fR
defaut language used in GUI
.TP
\fB\-u, \-\-usb\fR
Turn on support for hardware wallets (EXPERIMENTAL).
.SH AUTHORS
Electrum client was initially written by ThomasV
<\fIthomasv@gitorious\fR>
.br
This manual page was written by Vasudev Kamath
<\fIkamathvasudev@gmail.com\fR> for Debian Project (but can be used by
others).