electrumx VS specter-desktop

The issue initially cropped up because of a bug where I can't use electrumx (which works fine with Cake) with litecoind 0.21.2+. It looks like electrumx might be fixed soon but, except for it not working with Cake, I've really come to like using Fulcrum and wouldn't necessarily switched back if they worked together.

If you'd like OP, you can set up your own electrum server alongside your bitcoin node. There's a view options, someone already mentioned electrs, but there's also the original electrumx and fulcrum

Take a look at https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx/tree/master/contrib/raspberrypi3 as reference.

The backend server that Electrum wallet connects to is https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx/

Look at DEAMON_URL, but in a more general since, just read all the documentation first.

Here you go: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx/ You'll need python 3.7 or later, and LevelDB https://github.com/google/leveldb Both available for Windows so it should work fine :)

https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow

You can for example use it to run specter-desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) on top for example, to use your hardware wallet with improved privacy or even mix them together to create multi-sig setups.

Also, the functioning of your hardware wallet isn't dependent on this corporations still existing. There is various free and open source software that lets you manage your hardware wallet, and even combine them to make multi-sig wallets (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) . This lets you access all information via your own Bitcoin node, no third party system required, fully decentralized.

Take a look at Specter Desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) , which is a web interface for Bitcoin Core that lets you use basically every hardware wallet directly with your node.

Specter Desktop v1.14.1 (Released: 08th December 2022) - https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases

Alternatively you can purchase multiple devices from different manufacturers and create a multisig wallet that requires multiple signatures from multiple devices. Wallet software like Specter-Desktop can help you with this. They also have a DIY signer https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-diy

What you can do is to use one or more of this hardware wallets with your own node and a software like specter-desktop (https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop) on top. This way you are completely self sufficient.

It is most likely an issue that is solved in the upcoming version of Specter; you might be interested in trying this prerelease, or wait for the official release: https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop/releases/tag/v1.13.1-pre1

Specter runs in Electrum, but you can technically set it up to be run through a web browser, as long as you're hosting the service yourself.

Specter Desktop v1.9.4 - Release page - Upgrade guide UIUX: Overhaul of UTXO list, handling of locked UTXOs and scrollbar added to tx-table web component; + various bug fixes, chores and docs. See release page for full notes.