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README.rst

ElectrumX - Reimplementation of Electrum-server
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  Licence: MIT Licence
  Author: Neil Booth
  Language: Python (>=3.5)


Motivation
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For privacy and other reasons, I have long wanted to run my own
Electrum server, but for reasons I cannot remember I struggled to set
it up or get it to work on my DragonFlyBSD system, and I lost interest
for over a year.

More recently I heard that Electrum server databases were around 35GB
in size when gzipped, and had sync times from Genesis of over a week
(and sufficiently painful that no one seems to have done one for a
long time) and got curious about improvements.  After taking a look at
the existing server code I decided to try a different approach.

I prefer Python3 over Python2, and the fact that Electrum is stuck on
Python2 has been frustrating for a while.  It's easier to change the
server to Python3 than the client.

It also seemed like a good way to learn about asyncio, which is a
wonderful and powerful