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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: How many confirmations do I need to know LTC is in my wallet?
by
jorneyflair
on 13/12/2017, 09:28:07 UTC
Just withdrew LTC from Bittrex into my Electrum wallet.  I have a check mark and when I hover over it with the mouse, i see 23 confirmations. 

Am I good?


Sorry if this is a dumb question.  Just want to be sure so I can log out.

The default amount of confirmations needed should be 6 confirmations i think. How many electrum needs before it allows you to spend the funds as confirmed, i'm not sure. It definitely could be 6*4 = 24 though since that would be the same amount of time as the bitcoin 6 confirmations.

It shouldn't bother you since after the first confirmation you'll be getting a confirmation every time a block gets mined. So you can close your electrum with a peace of mind.

Plus i'm pretty sure that you can enable spending of unconfirmed funds if you are really urgent in electrum.