<p>They are rare because Electrum and all the other wallets using the protocol do not support it client-side, so nobody setting up an ElectrumX server has any incentive to enable this. ElectrumX requires you to enable individual protocols explicitly. Furthermore, as you can see in <a href="https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx/blob/7e37f3b0537f4ffe6724e07939e58fe71dbd56d2/docs/changelog.rst#version-1120-13-may-2019" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the changelog</a> they have only been supported since May 2019.</p>

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Janus Troelsen
<p>Couldn't find a single one. Only TCP or TLS.
Am I looking in the wrong place? ( <a href="https://1209k.com/bitcoin-eye/ele.php?chain=btc" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://1209k.com/bitcoin-eye/ele.php?chain=btc</a> )</p>

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Why public Electrum servers serving on websocket (WS) are so rare?
Igor Korsakov
# Why public Electrum servers serving on websocket (WS) are so rare?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-03-14)

Couldn't find a single one. Only TCP or TLS.
Am I looking in the wrong place? ( <https://1209k.com/bitcoin-eye/ele.php?chain=btc> )

**Tags:** electrum, websockets


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### Answer by username_1 on 2020-03-14. Score: 1

They are rare because Electrum and all the other wallets using the protocol do not support it client-side, so nobody setting up an ElectrumX server has any incentive to enable this. ElectrumX requires you to enable individual protocols explicitly. Furthermore, as you can see in [the changelog](https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx/blob/7e37f3b0537f4ffe6724e07939e58fe71dbd56d2/docs/changelog.rst#version-1120-13-may-2019) they have only been supported since May 2019.


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