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Neil Booth
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| README.rst | 8 years ago | |
| electrumx_rpc.py | 8 years ago | |
| electrumx_server.py | 8 years ago | |
| query.py | 8 years ago | |
| setup.py | 8 years ago | |
README.rst
ElectrumX - Reimplementation of Electrum-server
===============================================
::
Licence: MIT Licence
Author: Neil Booth
Language: Python (>=3.5)
Getting Started
===============
See :code:`docs/HOWTO.rst`.
Motivation
==========
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