Make public SPV node with electrs?

[Geremia]

Can I configure electrs to be a public (port 500002) SPV node?

[Geremia]

config.md#connecting-an-electrum-client:

Connecting an Electrum client

To connect to your Electrs server, you will need to point Electrum to your server using the ip_address:port syntax. You will notice that most default servers in Electrum use the 50002 port (which is for SSL connections), while Electrs serves port 50001 and does not provide SSL out of the box.

You would need to either use a webserver to provide SSL (see SSL connection below), or connect without SSL. To tell Electrum to connect to your server without SSL, you need to add :t after the port (ie: localhost:50001:t). Please note that this is not secure and therefore recommended only for local connections.

Electrs will listen by default on 127.0.0.1:50001, which means it will only serve clients in the local machine. This is configured via the electrum_rpc_addr setting and if you wish to connect from another machine, you need to change it to 0.0.0.0:50001. This is less secure though, and the recommended way to access Electrs remotely is to keep listening on 127.0.0.1 and tunnel to your server.

🎩-tip: nc50lc

[romanz]

Please see #187 - I don't recommend exposing electrs to the public.

[Geremia]

@romanz Even with an Onion address?

[romanz]

As long as only trusted users are allowed to connect.