Questions tagged [electrum-server]
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How do I copy the electrs index to a new node without it having to reindex?
I have electrs installed on an old Umbrel bitcoin node, and I want to copy it to new hardware (with Umbrel as well), instead of having electrs reindex the blockchain from scratch, which can take over ...
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Trying to run Esplora with existing electrs and bitcoind
I'm trying to run Esplora on a system that's already running bitcoind and electrs, both of which are working. Electrs is running on port 60001.
echo '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "...
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High end electrum servers directly reading blk.dat files
These days, high end electrum servers directly read blk.dat files straight from Bitcoin Core's blocks folder in the process of creating their initial internal indexes. I guess they also do in the ...
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Getting a feerate estimate via the Electrum protocol
For example, I make this request to the Electrum server:
{ "id": 0, "method": "blockchain.estimatefee", "params": [ 1 ] }
and get response:
0.00254405
Here I ...
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Does a Raspberry Pi have enough CPU power to run a full node and an electrs server?
Very curious if anyone has this particular setup, currently am running the aforementioned on an old Acer laptop but it's struggling hard.
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Electrs server setup for local network
I have a machine (192.168.1.66) on a local network serving Electrs that's syncd to the tip (netstat -ntlp shows that electrs listening on 127.0.0.1:50001). But I have another machine (192.168.1.68) ...
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Local Esplora Not Compiling on Clean `new-index` Branch
I'm immediately failing to compile https://github.com/Blockstream/electrs on a clean branch of new-index as instructed in the README. The build is failing with the following error:
error: failed to ...
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How to get transaction fee info using Python from an Electrum server?
I can get a raw transaction and parse it using electrum and bitcoinlib fairly easily:
import bitcoinlib
from electrum.daemon import Daemon
from electrum.simple_config import SimpleConfig
class ...
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Most Secure Bitcoin Node Motherboard to avoid IME & PSP?
What is the correct motherboard model / CPU type to choose if your goal is to build a secure Bitcoin Node that has none of the exploit compromised back doors listed below by CPU type:
Intel ...
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More detailed historical trx info (fee, sat per byte, transferred value in trx, from, to) from electrumx server?
I run bitcoin full node and Electrumx server over it for getting historical data.
The methods that I frequently used were "blockchain.scripthash.get_history" and "blockchain.transaction....
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Interfacing with fulcrum personal server
I'm trying to interface with my fulcrum personal server that's connected to my node but having issues getting a json response from my RPC call.
To enable RPC commands my understanding in the fulcrum....
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Issues Installing Electrum Personal Server with Sparrow and Bitcoin Core
I'm trying to set up Electrum Personal Server (EPS) to work with Sparrow Wallet and Bitcoin Core. I've followed the standard procedures for the setup, but I've run into some issues.
Setup Details:
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Must a lightweight wallet be connected to the same servers that were used years ago to receive money
My question is back in 2016 i purchased bitcoin not knowing nothing about it forgot i even had it they were i believe segwit or bip39 anyways when i got back into trying to locate my wallets no data ...
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How can one query the mempool of an Electrum server?
How does one go about querying a public Electrum server’s mempool? Not just for a address, but the entire mempool.
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How do I setup an Esplora instance for local testing
How can I setup a local instance of https://github.com/Blockstream/electrs, for example to test/experiment with the Esplora backend for syncing BDK or LDK?
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How are transactions broadcast from a personal Electrum server? Through the full Bitcoin Core node? Or by the Elecrum server itself?
When wallet software is connected directly to bitcoind, you can see when the wallet connects to the node, broadcasts a transaction through the node, etc. by watching the bitcoind log. But when you ...
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Running Electrum wallet and full node on Windows. How to configure SSL with self-signed certificate
I have a full node running on Windows 10, I have Electrum wallet installed and I have BTC-RPC-EXPLORER set up.
The problem I have is that I can find no clear guide to setting up and installing a ...
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I think I was victim of a sybil attack
So I am currently working on a project using bitcoin.
I started with a full node that I tried to secure following the best practices available online.
Then, I set up an electrum server that was ...
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Connecting ElectrumX to external Bitcoin Core node
I have a (full) Bitcoin Core node on a Raspberry Pi (Umbrel) and I'm looking for a way to connect an ElectrumX install to it. Is this possible?
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What do electrumx peers do for the electrum server?
The documentation here https://electrumx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/peer_discovery.html explains how peers are announced to each other. To run an electrumx server you need a full node to populate the ...
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How to use `blockchain.scripthash.subscribe` from a tcp socket in Electrum server
As a personal exercise I want to write a minimal copy of BTCPayServer. I decided to use Electrum server instead of a node to fetch information from the network. My final goal is to be able to track ...
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SPV wallet connecting to personal bitcoin node
I have decided I want to run a bitcoin node both to support the network, learn more about how it works and also so I can participate while minimising trust in external parties. I have a bitcoin core ...
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How does Electrum get transaction input values?
https://electrumx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/protocol-methods.html#blockchain-transaction-get defines the api for getting txs. Vin values are not included, however. Is it possible to find these without ...
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Electrum Server running. Now what?
I finally found time to build a full bitcoind node and run electrs (not Electrum Personal Server).
What things can I do now? I know about only these:
Point my Electrum wallet client to my electrs, ...
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How does electrum interact with the underlying bitcoind service?
I am a bit confused regarding the bitcoind peers and Electrum X peers.
From what I understand, the electrum X protocol is built on top of the bitcoin blockchain, but I cannot quite wrap my head around ...
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