Electrum server on Windows (or VirtualBox, or, even better, WSL)

[ABCbits]

2. I could use some suggestions for the block explorer to install. Is it mempool.space or is there any better/easier one?

Based on my past experience, BTC RPC Explorer is easy to install. While mempool.space have lots of dependency (such as Electrum Server & MariaDB), this one only require you to install Bitcoin Core and Node.js.

[NeuroticFish]

Based on my past experience, BTC RPC Explorer is easy to install. While mempool.space have lots of dependency (such as Electrum Server & MariaDB), this one only require you to install Bitcoin Core and Node.js.

BTC RPC Explorer seems to not know if a transaction has RBF or not. Since I'll use it for my transactions, it's not that bad. Correction: it does know if RBF is on, but it shows the info only for unconfirmed transactions.
As a minus, the look & feel is not that great. On the other hand, it doesn't have yet another database, which is very nice - having 3 databases for the same thing (just because electrum server and blockchain explorer are made by different people) is counterproductive.

I may give it a try, let's see how hard it is to install/configure. Thank you.


Update: in under 1h I've got this also running. Impressive! Thank you for the hint!

[MixMAx123]

You have brought Electrumx to run? Can you help me with that? I also installed the RPC Explorer, but it needs Electrumx to display addresses.
I fails to successfully start ElectrumX.

[NeuroticFish]

You have brought Electrumx to run? Can you help me with that? I also installed the RPC Explorer, but it needs Electrumx to display addresses.
I fails to successfully start ElectrumX.

I've installed Electrs, not ElectrumX. Electrs install went very easy on Debian under WSL.
BTC RPC explorer seems to be happy with Electrs.

I plan to write down the steps -  probably in the week-end.

[MixMAx123]

Good tip, thank you!