# electrum > Ergonomic Bitcoin wallet and private key management. - Create a new wallet: `electrum -w {{new_wallet.dat}} create` - Restore an existing wallet from seed offline: `electrum -w {{recovery_wallet.dat}} restore -o` - Create a signed transaction offline: `electrum mktx {{recipient}} {{amount}} -f 0.0000001 -F {{from}} -o` - Display all wallet receiving addresses: `electrum listaddresses -a` - Sign a message: `electrum signmessage {{address}} {{message}}` - Verify a message: `electrum verifymessage {{address}} {{signature}} {{message}}` - Connect only to a specific electrum-server instance: `electrum -p socks5:{{127.0.0.1}}:9050 -s {{56ckl5obj37gypcu.onion}}:50001:t -1`