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"Timothy M. Redaelli" <timothy@fsfe.org>
Subject:
Re: NEW: net/electrs
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Date:
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 15:24:30 +0100

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  • Timothy M. Redaelli:

    NEW: net/electrs

    • Timothy M. Redaelli:

      NEW: net/electrs

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:27:11 +0100
"Timothy M. Redaelli" <timothy@fsfe.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Electrs is an Electrum Server in Rust.
> 
> The motivation behind this project is to enable a user to self host an
> Electrum server, with required hardware resources not much beyond those
> of a Bitcoin full node (net/bitcoin).
> The server indexes the entire Bitcoin blockchain, and the resulting
> index enables fast queries for any given user wallet, allowing the user
> to keep real-time track of balances and transaction history using the
> Electrum wallet.
> Since it runs on the user's own machine, there is no
> need for the wallet to communicate with external Electrum servers, thus
> preserving the privacy of the user's addresses and balances.

Hi,

I know it's my first port on OpenBSD, but I'm expert in packaging
stuff (I maintain some packaging on RHEL and Fedora and I was a Gentoo
Developer, Archlinux Trusted User, FreeSBIE developer, etc) so, if I
did something wrong just tell me and I'll fix that.

Thank you