{"id":32018,"date":"2020-11-19T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T10:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32018"},"modified":"2025-08-28T06:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:38:13","slug":"electrum-developers-fix-wallet-issue-in-new-macos-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/electrum-developers-fix-wallet-issue-in-new-macos-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrum developers fix wallet issue in new macOS version."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Electrum Bitcoin wallet team released version 4.0.5, addressing the issue with accessing the app on macOS Big Sur.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New Electrum release: 4.0.5. Fixes an issue with MacOS Big Sur. LN is enabled by default. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y2DXoUyOgk\">https:\/\/t.co\/Y2DXoUyOgk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Electrum (@ElectrumWallet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectrumWallet\/status\/1329161099841822722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In early August, Electrum users <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/spesmilo\/electrum\/issues\/6461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opened<\/a> a discussion on GitHub, reporting that the app would not launch after updating Mac computers to the beta version of its new Big Sur variant.<\/p>\n<p>A developer under the nickname SomberNight suggested that it was related to how Big Sur handles Python, the programming language used by Electrum. The wallet&#8217;s graphical interface did not work, but it was possible to run it from the source code.<\/p>\n<p>In the new release, the developers circumvented the issue by using an older version of PyQt \u2014 the set of extensions for Python&#8217;s graphical framework.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/study-hackers-stole-1980-bitcoins-via-fake-electrum-wallet-update\">stole<\/a> 1980 BTC using a fake Electrum update. 1400 BTC of these losses <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/investor-loses-1400-bitcoins-after-using-an-older-electrum-wallet\">were attributed to<\/a> a single user.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electrum Bitcoin wallet team released version 4.0.5, fixing the issue with accessing the app on macOS Big Sur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1909,1313],"class_list":["post-32018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-electrum","tag-macos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32019,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32018\/revisions\/32019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}