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chris-belcher / electrum-personal-server

Maximally lightweight electrum server for a single user
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Suggested changes to readme #80

Open chris-belcher opened 5 years ago

chris-belcher commented 5 years ago

Two changes to the readme suggested by a user

from: "Run electrum-personal-server /path/to/config.cfg to start Electrum Personal Server. The first time the server is run it will import all configured addresses as watch-only into the Bitcoin node, and then exit. If the wallets contain historical transactions you can use the rescan script (electrum-personal-server-rescan /path/to/config.cfg) to make them appear."

to: "Run electrum-personal-server /path/to/config.cfg to start Electrum Personal Server (example: $ /Users/anonanon1/Library/Python/3.7/bin/electrum-personal-server /Users/anonanon1/Desktop/electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.1.6/config.cfg). The first time the server is run it will import all configured addresses as watch-only into the Bitcoin node, and then exit. If the wallets contain historical transactions you can use the rescan script (electrum-personal-server-rescan /path/to/config.cfg) to make them appear. (example: $ /Users/anonanon1/Library/Python/3.7/bin/electrum-personal-server-rescan /Users/anonanon1/Desktop/electrum-personal-server-eps-v0.1.6/config.cfg )

from: "Edit the file config.cfg to configure everything about the server. Add your wallet master public keys or watch-only addresses to the [master-public-keys] and [watch-only-addresses] sections. Master public keys for an Electrum wallet (which start with xpub/ypub/zpub) can be found in the Electrum client menu Wallet -> Information."

to: "Edit the file config.cfg to configure everything about the server. Add your wallet master public keys or watch-only addresses to the [master-public-keys] and [watch-only-addresses] sections. Master public keys for an Electrum wallet (which start with xpub/ypub/zpub) can be found in the Electrum client menu Wallet -> Information. Please make sure the # marks are removed for any lines you want to be recognized by the script."

BSQman commented 5 years ago

I had issues with the install on Linux with installing with pip. I was able to fix it by restoring config.cfg_sample file. Once i restored the file in the directory, pip3 install --user . worked and after install I was able to go back and change config.cfg_sample to config.cfg.