Quote from: MJS_gold on October 27, 2017, 07:14:07 PM

Are you suggesting I run a Core node on Linux because it offers coin control? I'm afraid I lack the resources and expertise for that. I can send BTC with the Ledger software wallet but it would mean sacrificing privacy (my main concern) and paying higher tx fees due to the lack of coin control (their software does not try to minimize tx inputs to reduce fees).

Is there any way I can get in on the testing of Electrum v3?

Follow tryninja's suggestion below.
Just check you definitey have a backup of a seed and you double check everything your doing and you do download the first stable/complete version of electrum when it is released and supports segwit.
Also, I was suggesting that you run bitcoin core without downloading any blocks (however I realise that may not work with segwit addresses now Sad

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Quote from: TryNinja on October 27, 2017, 07:49:04 PM

Quote from: MJS_gold on October 27, 2017, 07:14:07 PM

Are you suggesting I run a Core node on Linux because it offers coin control? I'm afraid I lack the resources and expertise for that. I can send BTC with the Ledger software wallet but it would mean sacrificing privacy (my main concern) and paying higher tx fees due to the lack of coin control (their software does not try to minimize tx inputs to reduce fees).

Is there any way I can get in on the testing of Electrum v3?

You can actually build Electrum from the source yourself with the last commits, since AFAIK Segwit is already somehow usable. But I wouldn't recommend. Just follow the GitHub repo[1] README.

[1] https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum

It has normally been tested before it's put on github as far as I am aware, however, I (like you) wouldn't necessarily recommend this is OP can wait a bit longer for it.