BLOC Electron Desktop Wallet v3.5.1 released

BLOC.money
3 min readAug 24, 2019

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BLOC Electron GUI Wallet — GUI Stands for Graphical User Interface. It makes it easy for you to use BLOC with a friendly user interface. The BLOC Electron Wallet client allow you to create your wallet, store and send your BLOC money, view your transactions and much more. BLOC Electron GUI Wallet is available for Windows, macOS and linux desktop and laptop computers.

BLOC Electron wallet is now compatible with the new BLOC CORE v3.5.0.1 released yeasterday. You can download the new update from the BLOC.MONEY website download area or from GitHub.

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Features:

This wallet contains the basic functions required to manage your BLOC assets:

  • Wallet creation
  • Create new wallet
  • Import from private keys OR mnemonic seed
  • Basic wallet operation
  • Open an existing wallet
  • Display wallet address & balance
  • Display private keys/seed
  • Export private keys/seed
  • Transactions listing/sorting/searching
  • Display transaction detail
  • Export incoming, outgoing, or all transactions to csv file.
  • Incoming Transaction notification
  • Send BLOC to single recipient address, allow to set payment id and custom fee. Provides address lookup from addressbook.
  • Perform wallet optimization by creating fusion transactions
  • Provides utility to generate payment id and integrated address
  • Address book
  • Add/Edit/Delete address entry (label/name, address and payment id)
  • Listing/sorting/searching existing entries
  • Allow to store same wallet address with different payment id
  • Autosave address after sending to new/unknown recipient
  • Misc
  • Provides setting to set local or public node address
  • Option to use system tray (on closing/minimizing wallet)
  • Provides list of public nodes, fetch/updated daily from BLOC-nodes-json repo.
  • Custom node address that is not on the list will be added/remembered for future use
  • Keyboard shortcuts

Notes

BLOC-electron-wallet relies on BLOC-service to manage wallet container & rpc communication.

Release installer & packaged archives includes a ready to use BLOC-service binary, which is unmodified copy BLOC release archive.

On first launch, BLOC-electron-wallet will try to detect location/path of bundled BLOC-service binary, but if autodetection failed, you can manually set path to the BLOC-service binary on the Settings screen.

If you don’t trust the bundled BLOC-service file, you can compare the checksum (sha256sum) against one from the official release, or simply download and use the binary from official BLOC release, which is available here: https://github.com/furiousteam/BLOC/releases. Then, make sure to update your BLOC-service path setting.

Download & Run BLOC Electron Wallet

Windows:

  1. Download the latest installer here: https://github.com/furiousteam/BLOC-electron-wallet/releases
  2. Run the installer (BLOC-Electron-Wallet — win-setup.exe) and follow the installation wizard.
  3. Run as Administrator BLOC-Electron-Wallet via start menu or desktop shortcut. (right click on the app icon and select run as Administrator)

GNU/Linux (AppImage):

  1. Download latest AppImage bundle here: https://github.com/furiousteam/BLOC-electron-wallet/releases
  2. Make it executable, either via GUI file manager or command line, e.g. chmod +x BLOC-Electron-Wallet-<version>-linux.AppImage
  3. Run/execute the file, double click in file manager, or run via shell/command line.

See: https://docs.appimage.org/user-guide/run-appimages.html

macOS

  1. Download latest archive here: https://github.com/furiousteam/BLOC-electron-wallet/releases
  2. Extract downloaded zip archived into your home folder
  3. Open terminal and Run: cd /Users/YOURNAME/BLOC-Electron-Wallet.app/Contents/MacOS && ./BLOC-Electron-Wallet

If this is your first time hearing about BLOC, we recommend starting by visiting the official BLOC.MONEYwebsite and/or the BLOC Wiki

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BLOC.money

BLOC is a fast, easy to use and private decentralized cryptocurrency. A blockchain for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs