Electrum stuff.

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+# Electrum stuff
+
+My corner for things related to Electrum.
+
+## How to connect an Electrum wallet to Umbrel-ElectrumRS
+
+I am running an ElectrumRS server as part of my personal Umbrel node, so it
+doesn't make much sense to keep my electrum wallets connected to random
+electrum servers of the internet that could be spying on me, right?
+
+These are the instructions on how to connect through the Android app. I'll try
+that first:
+
+    The following are the instructions Here's how to connect Electrum Wallet (
+    Android) to your Umbrel
+
+    Download Orbot on your phone.
+    Open Orbot, tap the gear icon under "Tor-Enabled apps" and add Electrum Wallet.
+    Tap "STOP", restart Orbot and turn on "VPN Mode".
+    Start Tor by tapping the big onion icon.
+    Open Electrum Wallet, tap the settings icon and select "Network".
+    Set "Auto-connect" to OFF.
+    Set the "Server" setting to ***************
+    Congratulations! You have successfully connected Electrum Wallet to your Umbrel. 
+
+    Unable to connect to Electrum Wallet (Android)? If Bitcoin Core has only
+    recently finished syncing, please try connecting again in ~24 hours. 
+
+Since I am a stupid user, I'm going to try it out even if the required 24 hours
+have not passed. Damned users.
+
+I followed the instructions and all went smoothly. I did an additional step:
+activating the `One-server mode`, because I have kind of deduced that even if I
+specified my own server, it was still connecting to others.
+
+Now, to check that it works as intented, I'm going to do two things:
+
+- Check live if my electrum app realises that a new block is coming in and
+  refreshes the number of confirmations in my last transaction live. 
+  - It worked like a charm!
+- Send a toy transaction from one of my wallets to one of the wallets I'm
+  watching in electrum to ensure it receives it live.
+  - It also worked like a charm1
+
+Big success!