From d46afa5b6ea667e528114be204bc558100bfdcbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eagle[TM] Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:29:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] HOWTO: minor formatting + headline change --- HOWTO.md | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/HOWTO.md b/HOWTO.md index 1bc47c0..31b0c2b 100644 --- a/HOWTO.md +++ b/HOWTO.md @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ our ~/bin directory: $ chmod +x ~/src/electrum/server/server.py $ ln -s ~/src/electrum/server/server.py ~/bin/electrum-server -### Step 3. Download Bitcoind stable from git & patch it +### Step 3. Download Bitcoind stable & patch it In order for the latest versions of Electrum to work properly we currently recommend bitcoind 0.8.5 stable. 0.8.5 can be downloaded from github or sourceforge and it needs to be patched with an electrum specific patch. @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ If your server gets a lot of traffic and you have a limited amount of RAM you ma more often. Two more things for you to consider: + 1. To increase security you may want to close bitcoind for incoming connections and connect outbound only 2. Consider restarting bitcoind (together with electrum-server) on a weekly basis to clear out unconfirmed -- 1.7.1