Spectrum - Specter Desktop + Electrum
This is a electrum-adapter. It exposes a Bitcoin-Core style API while using an electron API in the backend. It might be useful in specific usecases, e.g. having better performance when connecting to a electrum-server via Tor. In order to do that, it needs a Database. Quite easily you can use a kind of builtin SQLite. Depending on your usecase, you might want to use an external DB.
Note! Requires embit from master branch. (Still true?!)
Get this to work with something like that:
python3 --version # Make sure you have at least 3.8. Might also work with lower versions though
virtualenv --python=python3 .env
. ./.env/bin/activate
pip3 install -e .
# If you have a electrum server running on localhost:
python3 -m cryptoadvance.spectrum server --config cryptoadvance.spectrum.config.LocalElectrumLiteConfig
Check the config.py for the env-vars which need to be exported in order to connect to something different than localhost.
Then connect Specter-Desktop to rpc port 8081 with any credentials
TODO:
- refill keypool when address is used or new address is requested
- flask
debug=Trueflag creates two electrum sockets that notify twice - this causes duplications in the database - reconnect with electrum on disconnect
- add support for credentials / cookie file for RPC calls
Development
Before your create a PR, make sure to blackify all your changes. In order to automate that, there is a git pre-commit hook which you can simply install like this:
pre-commit install