Fedora Receives Its Own Electrum Bitcoin Wallet Client
Electrum Bitcoin wallet has released a new client for Linux Fedora powered computers. Electrum, a leading Bitcoin wallet service provider has launched its software for systems powered by Fedora operating system. The new release makes installation easier for those using the Fedora distribution of Linux operating system. The Electrum Bitcoin wallet for Fedora can be installed through GNOME Software or dnf on Fedora 25. In order to do so, all the user has to do is enter the following command inside the terminal and hit “Enter”. “$ sudo dnf install electrum”. Until now, installation of....
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