Re: [Electrum-discuss] [server] Broadcasting tx without bitcoind patch

[slush <sl...@ce...>]

I just created formal merge request for this stuff:

https://gitorious.org/electrum/server/merge_requests/5

slush

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 5:24 PM, slush <sl...@ce...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> one of the most ugly thing in server installation process is that
> patch of bitcoind for sending transactions to bitcoin network.
> Although it's quite easy for us, experienced bitcoin hackers to patch
> bitcoind and recompile it, I feel it might be a problem for many
> people wanted to run their own Electrum server.
>
> I have working pure-python code for broadcasting transactions directly
> to some bitcoin node, using P2P connection on port 8333, instead of
> current "importtransaction" RPC call. I prepared it for my Stratum
> server implementation and it works great, however it depends on
> Twisted framework. I know Thomas was against Twisted in the Electrum
> server implementation, but I have working solution and I don't have a
> time to rewrite it to non-Twisted version.
>
> For this reason I'm offering my version "as is" and it's up to core
> developers (currently I don't know who it is) if you'll use my
> proposal or you stick with current solution using bitcoind patch.
>
> "Fixing" send_tx is really easy now, because I released that library
> as PYPI module "sendtx". Eveyrthing you need to change in Electrum
> server to get it working is:
>
> a) Add "easy_install sendtx" to server installation guide
> b) Add "self.bitcoind_host = config.get('bitcoind','host')" to
> backends/Abe/__init__.py:AbeStore.__init__()
> c) Replace send_tx() method with following code:
>     def send_tx(self,tx):
>         import sendtx
>         return sendtx.process(self.bitcoind_host, tx)
>
> My Electrum node at california.stratum.bitcoin.cz is already using
> this patch, so you can try that it is really working :-).
>
> Best,
> slush