Quote from: mmortal03 on June 12, 2017, 11:41:58 AM

Quote from: marcus_of_augustus on June 12, 2017, 01:25:36 AM

Quote from: JWU42 on June 02, 2017, 11:12:13 AM

No to the first question.

ThomasV has stopped development of electrum-server and is encouraging all to use ElectrumX. The main advantages of ElectrumX are the smaller DB and mainly the much faster sync time if building the db from genesis block. It is literally 100+X faster.

This is interesting. Can ElectrumX be used on top of a current local blockchain (Core)? Or roughly how long will it take to sync entire blockchain up from scratch on ElectrumX (e.g relative to core)?

You must connect it to a Core node over RPC, so it doesn't sync independently. If the Core node is already synced and local, it'll take at least a few days to get ElectrumX synced. I started syncing mine on a slower computer (but with an SSD), and it's taken mine about a week.

thnx, exactly the info I was after.