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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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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 full node connected with the initial block…
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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 the transactions received by an address, but so far…
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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 on how exactly they interact. I get it that…
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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: Bitcoin Core version: 25.0.0 Electrum Personal…
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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 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 connect your software wallet to the Electrum server…
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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 connected to the full node and on top of which I linked…
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Full explanation of what Electrum Server / Electrs does for data availability?

I am working on an on-chain data model in a corporate data warehouse setting. All data must live on an internal system where it can be easily joined to other datasources, and support a variety of high performance analytics use cases. The model will…
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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 is showing on my wallets someone told me somthing…
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How to communicate with ElectrumX servers using command line tools

I would like to be able to get some response from ElectrumX/Fulcrum servers using Linux command line tools. I know I can query servers using Python and other programming language but I wonder if it's easily possibly in bash or similar shells. Python…
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Running Electrum In a Docker Container

I'm using the Sparrow Wallet and would like to run the Electrum server with Docker. I've tried these, but didn't have luck (I am a developer who has used Docker before, but I didn't have a lot of time to…
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Running electrum wallet and full node on windows. How to confiigure 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 certificate so SSL can be used on the electrum server…
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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 database. It makes sense that the clients can…
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