1 Electrum-server for the Electrum client
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4 * Author: Thomas Voegtlin (ThomasV on the bitcointalk forum)
10 * The server indexes UTXOs by address, in a Patricia tree structure
11 described by Alan Reiner (see the 'ultimate blockchain
12 compression' thread in the Bitcointalk forum)
14 * Te server requires bitcoind, leveldb and plyvel
16 * The server code is open source. Anyone can run a server, removing
17 single points of failure concerns.
19 * The server knows which set of Bitcoin addresses belong to the same
20 wallet, which might raise concerns about anonymity. However, it
21 should be possible to write clients capable of using several
27 1. To install and run a server, see README.leveldb. For greater
28 detail on the installation process, see HOWTO.md.
30 2. To start the server, use the 'start' script. If you do not have a
31 database, it will propose you o download it from the Electrum
34 3. To stop the server, use the 'stop' script. It will shutdown the
42 Electrum-server is made available under the terms of the [GNU Affero General
43 Public License](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html), version 3. See the
44 included `LICENSE` for more details.