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Neil Booth
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README.rst
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===============================================
ElectrumX - Reimplementation of electrum-server
===============================================
:Licence: MIT
:Language: Python (>= 3.5)
:Author: Neil Booth
Getting Started
===============
See `docs/HOWTO.rst`_.
Motivation
==========
Mainly for privacy reasons, I have long wanted to run my own Electrum
server, but I struggled to set it up or get it to work on my
DragonFlyBSD system and lost interest for over a year.
In September 2015 I heard that electrum-server databases were getting
large (35-45GB when gzipped), and it would take several weeks to sync
from Genesis (and was sufficiently painful that no one seems to have
done it for about a year). This made me curious about improvements