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BLOC Electron Wallet for Desktop

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, view your transactions, stay connected with the BLOC ecosystem and also CPU mine BLOC with a simple one click button. BLOC Electron GUI Wallet is available for Windows, macOS and linux desktop and laptop computers.

Make sure to read the complete instructions about how to use the BLOC Electron Wallet

Screenshot

BLOC Electron Wallet - Welcome screen

BLOC Electron Wallet - Transactions

BLOC Electron Wallet - Wallet Overview

BLOC Electron Wallet - Transactions

BLOC Electron Wallet - Transactions

BLOC Electron Wallet - Transactions

BLOC Electron Wallet - Transactions

BLOC Electron Wallet - Transactions

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 details
    • 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
    • Backup your wallet with your private keys so you can restore your wallet anytime

  • Block explorer

  • Tools

  • News

  • Videos

  • Ecosystem

  • Help

    • This wiki is the main source of documentation for newcomers to the BLOC Project

  • Exchange

    • Find here the list where to trade BLOC with other cryptocurrencies.

  • Miner

    • Built-in miner for BLOC which makes it very easy to use with a one single click button to start mining.

  • 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.

Source Code

Tutorial & Help

Download

You can download the BLOC Electron Wallet from two places

Once you have downloaded the file, go to your computer and double click the installation package to install the BLOC Electron wallet. Select the BLOC wallet application and place it where you like.

Lanch the app

Windows:

  1. Download the latest installer here
  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
  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
  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

Build

You need to have Node.js and npm installed, go to https://nodejs.org and find out how to get it installed on your platform.

Once you have Node+npm installed:

# first, download BLOC-service binary for each platform
# from BLOC.MONEY official repo
# https://github.com/furiousteam/BLOC/releases
# extract the BLOC-service executable somewhere

# clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/furiousteam/BLOC-electron-wallet
$ cd BLOC-electron-wallet

# install dependencies
$ npm install

# create build+dist directory
$ mkdir -p ./build && mkdir -p ./dist

# copy/symlink icons from assets, required for packaging
$ cp ./src/assets/icon.* ./build/

# build GNU/Linux package
$ mkdir -p ./bin/lin
$ cp /path/to/linux-version-of/BLOC-service ./bin/lin/
$ npm run dist-lin

# build Windows package
$ mkdir -p ./bin/win
$ cp /path/to/win-version-of/BLOC-service.exe ./bin/win/
$ npm run dist-win

# build OSX package
$ mkdir -p ./bin/osx
$ cp /path/to/osx-version-of/BLOC-service ./bin/osx/
$ npm run dist-mac

Resulting packages or installer can be found inside dist/ directory.

Porting for other coin

Please see this guide if you want to adapt BLOC-electron-wallet to be use for your own BLOC fork.