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ElectrumX - Reimplementation of Electrum-server
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Licence: MIT Licence
Author: Neil Booth
Language: Python (>=3.5)
Getting Started
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See :code:`docs/HOWTO.rst`.
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 a