Work is progressing moving ElectrumSV from using the existing ElectrumX servers, to using our new reference server. A lot of the functionality in the reference server is complete, but one piece that isn’t is unspent output notifications. There is not a lot of discussion on this topic, so if you…

This is a proposal for how automated payment for API usage of a service could be achieved using payment channels. ElectrumSV wants to do this to compensate people who will run the services our users make use of, but perhaps others might have an interest in also supporting it. …

The potential future that BSV has ahead of it is way more technologically advanced than anything anyone is doing on it now. And that is in the immediate years ahead of us. It’s the early days. The hard grunt work of bootstrapping BSV is being done now, by the early…

As part of ElectrumSV’s work on preparing for when the ElectrumX indexers die, I’ve been looking at what we need to do, and in the longer term how we combine the SPV-oriented LiteClient model introduced by Steve Shadders at CoinGeek NY 2021 with the blockchain monitoring we need to do…

16th October 2021 Introduction We are seeing increasingly larger blocks on Bitcoin SV. Users still need to use the legacy technologies we inherited from Bitcoin Core, and without them they will be unable to restore their funds or hear about incoming transactions. The current way this works is by the kindness…

This article considers some additions to the ElectrumSV SDK, including an SPV channel server, a blockchain scanner and also frozen blockchains. These changes are necessary for ElectrumSV, but they also round out the functionality available in the SDK for any developers who use it. They are not the only changes…

One group of planned features on ElectrumSV’s roadmap is related to privacy. It’s been a while since I thought about these, so there’s value in revisiting them. Especially since payment protocols are a hot topic for Bitcoin SV these days. Potential best practices There are no formal best practices in Bitcoin SV application…

The death of seed words, ensuring historical coin access and wallet backups moving into the future.. — Introduction As always, I am not a Bitcoin expert. This document is the path forward for ElectrumSV based on my understanding of the subjects at hand. Consider it a draft proposal, soliciting feedback and additional ideas to help define a path to keep ElectrumSV on track to take part in Bitcoin…

One of the things my fellow ElectrumSV developer AustEcon and I did a long time ago was hook up the mypy static type checker to our CI (continuous integration) process so that it gets run every time we push a change to our source code repository. If the type checker…