electrumx vs electrum

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electrumx		electrum
	Project
12	Mentions	1
413	Stars	0
2.2%	Growth	-
6.5	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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 2022-10-16.

Looking for attention on #475: Cake wallet doesn't work with Fulcrum electrum server
2 projects | /r/cakelabs | 16 Oct 2022

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.
Why does syncing a wallet to a public node happen almost instantly?
2 projects | /r/BitcoinBeginners | 12 Sep 2022

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
Electrum server for LTC node?
1 project | /r/litecoin | 10 May 2022
Electrum to Electrumx
3 projects | /r/Electrum | 26 Mar 2022

Take a look at https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx/tree/master/contrib/raspberrypi3 as reference.
Is the Electrum server being maintained?
1 project | /r/TREZOR | 17 Mar 2022
API for hot 🔥 wallet
1 project | /r/dogecoindev | 15 Feb 2022
Run an ElectrumX server if you want Electrum-VTC back
2 projects | /r/vertcoin | 10 Jan 2022

The backend server that Electrum wallet connects to is https://github.com/spesmilo/electrumx/
[software update/announcement] BYND is now supported on the main electrumx code base
1 project | /r/Beyondcoin | 22 Oct 2021
Is there an easy way to Create an Electrum Server on a Windows machine?
2 projects | /r/Electrum | 7 Sep 2021

Look at DEAMON_URL, but in a more general since, just read all the documentation first.
How to set up an Electrum Server on Windows machine?
2 projects | /r/btc | 6 Sep 2021

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 :)

electrum

Posts with mentions or reviews of electrum. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-10.

Run an ElectrumX server if you want Electrum-VTC back
2 projects | /r/vertcoin | 10 Jan 2022

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

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.

cake_wallet - The open source repository for Cake Wallet, a noncustodial multi-currency wallet, and Monero.com, a noncustodial Monero-only wallet. Need help? Check out https://guides.cakewallet.com

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

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.

electrum - Electrum Bitcoin Wallet

Fulcrum - A fast & nimble SPV Server for BCH, BTC, and LTC