Update for Electrum 2.8

As well as the new Electrum version update, there are a few important bugfixes. Follow install procedure, either 'quick version' or 'from source', on the README.

This release is better tested than the previous due to the availability of testnet (you can activate by running ./electrum -- testnet if you wish, obviously also works on mainnet).

Tested on Linux, may work on other OSes, haven't investigated. Also binary (especially Windows exe) not yet done.

Bugfix for imports

See the README for instructions on usage.

Small refactor of wallet class

Still alpha release for testing, see README for details

better status updates, changed .tar.gz name

see notes in README on how to use. Still for testing only.

Bugfix to 0.0.1

Fix a directory name. See 0.0.1 notes.

Testing release, do not use

Currently just to test if the zip distribution of the customized electrum works, NOT for use. It's working on my Ubuntu, going to use this for testing on fresh VM instances.

The idea will be: install the "backend" distribution of joinmarket-clientserver, or download the binary. Run the daemon (default port will be fine). (TODO: issue #31 to make this under-the-hood).

Download and untar this zip/tar (the Electrum-2.7.12.. ; TODO rename!). Then start with python electrum. The Joinmarket plugin should be available under Tools->Plugins. Activate and you should see the Joinmarket tab.

A note about installation dependencies of electrum on linux: if you don't use virtualenv, then sudo python install python-qt4 should do the trick fine. But, Pyqt doesn't play nice with virtualenvs. If you want to encapsulate this in a virtualenv, you can follow the trick I found to work, but no guarantee it will for you: copy the dir PyQt4, the files sip*.so and sipconfig.py, sipconfig_nd.py from the system level dist-packages to the virtualenv site-packages.

Notes will of course be edited once the situation is more stable.