- Author: Thomas Voegtlin
- Language: Python
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The server indexes UTXOs by address, in a Patricia tree structure described by Alan Reiner (see the 'ultimate blockchain compression' thread in the Bitcointalk forum)
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The server requires VERGEd, leveldb, and plyvel
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The server code is open source. Anyone can run a server, removing single points of failure concerns.
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To install and run a server, see INSTALL. For greater detail on the installation process, see HOWTO.md.
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To start and stop the server, use the 'electrum-server' script
Electrum-server is made available under the terms of the MIT License.
See the included LICENSE
for more details.