having trouble setting up Electrum Personal Server with my Bitcoin Core node and Electrum wallet on Mac. followed a bunch of tutorials but when I launch EPS, I get some messages, then an error pops up after a few seconds. it’s odd because the wallet addresses look correct, they start with 1. tried creating new certificates too, but still no luck. anyone faced this and can help out?
Electrum Personal Server Installation Issues with Bitcoin Core
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the problem is that recent Bitcoin Core versions don’t create legacy wallets by default. so, your EPS wallet is probably a descriptor wallet. to fix this, close everything, start Bitcoin Core with deprecatedrpc=create_bdb. then create a new wallet using "disable_private_keys=true", "blank=true", "descriptors=false", and make sure to set "load_on_startup=true". name it whatever you want and update that in your EPS config.ini. just a heads up, be cautious with future updates to Bitcoin Core since v29.0 won’t support this.
also, just a side note for you, OP. EPS hasn’t had a new release in about 2.5 years. it’s light and easier to work with, but kinda tricky if you need to set up more Electrum wallets since you’ll need EPS to create new wallet.dat files in Bitcoin Core and that rescanning takes forever.