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Re: Electrum 4.5.5 watch-only wallet send
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nc50lc
on 01/10/2024, 05:47:54 UTC
⭐ Merited by ABCbits (2) ,BitMaxz (1)
or does the Electrum documentation need updating?
Yes, The official documentation is quite outdated, even the images are from versions before Electrum transition to PSBT workflow.

Quote from: eiger3970
Is there a way an Electrum watch-only wallet can have a fake wallet to show a fake amount if under duress? I know hardware wallets can do this.
Unfortunately, there's no Electrum feature like that.
You can create multiple wallets in Electrum and it loads the last wallet that you've opened you can utilize that to show that you only own that amount.
But attackers may know it that they might just force you to show your recently loaded wallet list.

Time to test spending some BTC on LN from a hot wallet, apparently there's no fees?
No fees only if the recipient is the owner of the other end of the payment channel you've used.
If the payment requires routing through other channels to get to the recipient, there's be minimal fee based from the routing channel owners' rates.

As for Electrum's lightning implementation, it's self-custodial so you'll be the one who's in charge of managing your channels and liquidity.
In other words, you wont be able to use lightning right off the bat.
You'll need to create a channel by spending some of your on-chain funds, then manage your channel(s)' liquidity since you'll only get outbound capacity upon establishing a channel.
More info in this thread: Electrum Lightning Network walkthrough

And this topic may need its own thread.