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# Electrum Server in Rust
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[](https://travis-ci.com/romanz/electrs)
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An efficient re-implementation of Electrum Server, inspired by [ElectrumX](https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx)
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and [Electrum Personal Server](https://github.com/chris-belcher/electrum-personal-server/).
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The motivation behind this project is to enable a user to run his own Electrum server,
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with required hardware resources not much beyond those of a [full node](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Full_node#Why_should_you_use_a_full_node_wallet).
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The server indexes the whole Bitcoin blockchain, and this index enables fast queries for any given user wallet,
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allowing the user to keep real-time track of his balances and his transaction history using the [Electrum wallet](https://electrum.org/).
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Since it runs on the user's own machine, there is no need for the wallet to communicate with external Electrum servers,
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thus preserving the privacy of the user's addresses and balances.
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## Features
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* Supports Electrum protocol [v1.2](https://electrumx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/protocol.html)
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* Maintains an index over transaction inputs and outputs, allowing fast balance queries
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* Fast synchronization of the Bitcoin blockchain (~5 hours for ~184GB @ June 2018) on modest hardware (without SSD)
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* Low index storage overhead (~20%), relying on a local full node for transaction retrieval
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* Efficient mempool tracker (allowing better fee [estimation](https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/59c1d03f018026ac301c4e74facfc64da8ae4708/RELEASE-NOTES#L34-L46))
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* Low CPU & memory usage (after initial indexing)
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* [`txindex`](https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook/blob/develop/ch03.asciidoc#txindex) is not required for the Bitcoin node
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* Uses a single [RocksDB](https://github.com/spacejam/rust-rocksdb) database, for better consistency and crash recovery
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## Usage
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Install [latest Rust](https://rustup.rs/) (1.26+) and [latest Bitcoin Core](https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/) (0.16+).
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```bash
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$ sudo apt update
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$ sudo apt install clang
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# Allow Bitcoin daemon to sync before starting Electrum server
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$ bitcoind -server=1 -daemon=0 -txindex=0 -prune=0
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# First build should take ~20 minutes
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$ cargo build --release
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$ cargo run --release -- -v -l debug.log
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[INFO] Config { log_file: "debug.log", log_level: Debug, network_type: Mainnet, db_path: "./db/mainnet", rpc_addr: V4(127.0.0.1:50001), monitoring_addr: V4(127.0.0.1:42024) }
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[DEBUG] BlockchainInfo { chain: "main", blocks: 527673, headers: 527677, bestblockhash: "0000000000000000001134b741f53f4e49e9f8073e41af6d8aaad3b849ebeee4", size_on_disk: 196048138442, pruned: false }
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[DEBUG] opening ./db/mainnet with StoreOptions { bulk_import: true }
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[DEBUG] applying 0 new headers from height 0
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[INFO] best=0000000000000000001134b741f53f4e49e9f8073e41af6d8aaad3b849ebeee4 height=527673 @ 2018-06-16T04:03:53Z (527674 left to index)
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# <initial indexing takes a few hours>
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[DEBUG] applying 527674 new headers from height 0
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[INFO] starting full compaction
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# <full compaction happens once, and may take ~1 hour>
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[INFO] finished full compaction
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[DEBUG] closing ./db/mainnet
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[DEBUG] opening ./db/mainnet with StoreOptions { bulk_import: false }
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[INFO] RPC server running on 127.0.0.1:50001
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# The index database is stored here:
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$ du db/
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36G db/mainnet/
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# Connect only to the local server, for better privacy
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$ electrum --oneserver --server=127.0.0.1:50001:t
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```
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## Monitoring
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Indexing and serving metrics are exported via [Prometheus](https://github.com/pingcap/rust-prometheus):
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```bash
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$ sudo apt install prometheus
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$ echo "
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scrape_configs:
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- job_name: electrs
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static_configs:
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- targets: ['localhost:42024']
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" | sudo tee -a /etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
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$ sudo systemctl restart prometheus
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$ firefox 'http://localhost:9090/graph?g0.range_input=1h&g0.expr=index_height&g0.tab=0'
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```
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