Having multiple electrum servers prevents sybill attacks on the network so unlike non-economic Bitcoin nodes honest users running electrum servers is a net public good.
Multiple applications are using electrum server as their self-hosted back-end API.
Code from: https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx
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Having multiple electrum servers prevents sybill attacks on the network so unlike non-economic Bitcoin nodes honest users running electrum servers is a net public good.
Multiple applications are using electrum server as their self-hosted back-end API.