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dcdpr opened this issue Mar 19, 2025 · 1 comment
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explain, in README, why no Electrum (electrs) support #8

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dcdpr commented Mar 19, 2025 •
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see GL 187, 136.
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dcdpr commented Mar 19, 2025

For our uses, we want the inputs to the tx, ie. the txouts from prior txs.

When we request a tx by txid, the "verbose" argument includes prior txs in some but not all variants. Yes in:

  • romanz/electrs (Electrum)
  • bitcoind (with -txindex)
  • Esplora (http).

No in:

  • blockstream/esplora/electrs

There is an open PR to move that No to a Yes, but it requires the underlying bitcoind to be run with the -txindex arg.

With bitcoind, we need to do additional work. We take all of a tx's inputs, and also request those txs. We need the previous tx's output, to get the current tx's input value.

Esplora http includes all this.

Because setting up Electrum servers still require a bitcoind with -txindex, and becuse the point of the software is to not rely on someone else's bitcoind, supporting Electrum protocol is almost no benefit. We entertain Esplora http, despite similar considerations, because it has some additional network efficiency.

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