A list of popular, Linux-friendly crypto-currency clients, and their tested compatibility with the Tails Linux operating system.
CC Client | Compatible w/ Tails? | Incompatibility Status |
Dark Wallet v0.1.0 | No (Tails 1.0) | DW is a browser extension; not yet released for Firefox, only Google Chrome. |
Bitcoin Core v0.9.2.1 | Yes (Tails 1.1.1) | |
Bitcoin Core v0.9.1 | No (Tails 1.0) | Issue #3914, Issue #4042. Developers have produced working dev binary for Tails 1.0 (see e-mail). |
Bitcoin Core v0.9.0 | No (Tails 1.0) | See above. |
Bitcoin Core v0.8.61 | Yes (Tails 0.23, 1.0) | |
sx 2014/04/10 build | No (Tails 0.23) | Issue #54 (issue filed by Kristov 2014/04/11) |
Multibit 0.5.17 | No (Tails 0.23) | Dependency does not support SOCKS proxies as of 2014/01/21. Stack exchange link, Issue #272 |
Electrum (All Versions) | No, Cannot Install Dependencies (Tails 0.23) | Issue #648 (issue filed by Kristov 2014/04/11, no fix planned) |
Darkcoin-Qt v0.9.1.2-2-g54fd5f3-beta | Yes, built for Debian Squeeze (Tails 0.23) | Documentation of Kristov’s request and implementation |
FedoraCoin-Qt (All Versions) | No, users must build for Linux (Tails 0.23) | Installation Instructions, Aptitude errors generated by following instructions. |
1: Bitcoin-Qt v0.8.6 is not vulnerable to the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug. Although OpenSSL is statically linked in this version of bitcoind, it uses OpenSSL v0.9.8k which pre-dates the 1.x vulnerable versions of OpenSSL.