Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on April 23, 2021, 08:42:43 AM

I have been experimenting with electrum as a wallet since I learnt about bitcoin, a year ago, and I can admit that it's the simplest and most useful one. I'd like to run my own electrum server, but not for privacy reasons, just for exercise. I also have bought a Windows VPS that isn't being used at the moment, so why not providing it to the electrum community?

I picked electrumx, because it's the most popular implementation. It seems that I can't install it on windows, only on unix. The thing is that I don't have an Ubuntu installed right now. Could this work with Windows 10 on an Ubuntu LTS?

Other questions too:

Is the same procedure if I want to run a testnet server? I don't have the storage for downloading the entire blockchain.
How does it return the balance of address(es) instantly? On Bitcoin Core it has to rescan the blockchain (which will take a lot of time).
Will I be shown on others' network servers? If no, how can I be shown?

Hello,

Please share some more informations, I also wanted to start with electrum, but failed to install and run. Lets help us each other if you are also at the beginning.
And the VPS is hardware or software or rented? Because I heard that is possible, personally I didnt saw such a witchcraft

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Thanks!

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