electrs VS electrumx

Compare electrs vs electrumx and see what are their differences.

electrs

An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust (by romanz)

electrumx

Alternative implementation of spesmilo/electrum-server (by kyuupichan)
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electrs electrumx
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8.5 0.0
15 days ago 3 months ago
Rust Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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electrs

Posts with mentions or reviews of electrs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-06.

electrumx

Posts with mentions or reviews of electrumx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-01.
  • Wasabi vs Electrum
    4 projects | /r/WasabiWallet | 1 Nov 2022
    To gain some privacy by using Electrum you should set up Tor on Network preferences or by installing your own Electrum server via Electrum Personal Server, ElectrumX or Electrs.
  • "No More Byte to Read" Errir
    3 projects | /r/WasabiWallet | 8 Oct 2021
    Your own full node is not enough as far as I know, you need either Electrum Personal Server or ElectrumX or Electrs.
  • Is there an ElectrumX server for BCH?
    6 projects | /r/btc | 29 Jun 2021
    https://github.com/Electron-Cash/electrumx - is discontinued. They refer to use the main code from: https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx But since May 2020 they removed all the code except for BSV.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing electrs and electrumx you can also consider the following projects:

electrum-personal-server - Maximally lightweight electrum server for a single user

electrs - An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server in Rust

specter-desktop - A desktop GUI for Bitcoin Core optimised to work with hardware wallets

LndHub - Wrapper for Lightning Network Daemon. It provides separate accounts for end-users

bwt-electrum-plugin - Electrum plugin for Bitcoin Wallet Tracker, a lightweight personal indexer for bitcoin wallets. Allows connecting Electrum to a Bitcoin Core full node backend.

raspibolt - RaspiBolt v3: Bitcoin & Lightning full node on a Raspberry Pi

electrumx - Alternative implementation of spesmilo/electrum-server

LevelDB - LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.