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ElectrumX - Reimplementation of electrum-server
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For a future network with bigger blocks.
:Licence: MIT
:Language: Python (>= 3.5.3)
:Author: Neil Booth
Getting Started
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See `docs/HOWTO.rst`_.
There is also an `installer`_ available that simplifies the installation on various Linux-based distributions.
.. _installer: https://github.com/bauerj/electrumx-installer
Features
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- Efficient, lightweight reimplementation of electrum-server
- Fast synchronization of bitcoin mainnet from Genesis. Recent
hardware should synchronize in well under 24 hours. The fastest
time to height 448k (mid January 2017) reported is under