'irc' is used to determine whether the IRC thread will be started or the Electrum server will run in private mode. In private mode, ./server.py peers will always return an empty list.
-'host' is a fqdn of your Electrum server. It is used both when binding the listener for incoming clien conections, and also as part of the realname field in IRC (see below).
+'host' is a fqdn of your Electrum server. It is used both when binding the listener for incoming client connections, and also as part of the realname field in IRC (see below).
'ircname' is a short text that will be appended to 'host' when composing the IRC realname field:
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