G2 Vendor Directory

Bitcoin Core Client vs. Electrum Wallet

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricBitcoin Core Client

by Bitcoin.org

Electrum Wallet

by Electrum

Overall rating3.64.3
Review count1115
Ease of use6.88.5
Ease of setup8.67.1
Quality of support6.77.7
Meets requirements8.69.2
NPS-18.18181846.666667
Small Business45.5%80.0%
Mid-Market36.4%20.0%
Enterprise18.2%0.0%
Total page views70152
Total LLM citations421,182

Bitcoin Core Client

Bitcoin Core is programmed to decide which block chain contains valid transactions. The users of Bitcoin Core only accept transactions for that block chain, making it the Bitcoin block chain that everyone else wants to use

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    Electrum Wallet

    Electrum was created by Thomas Voegtlin in November 2011. Since then, various developers have contributed to its source code.

    Pros