What do you call these letter identifiers after the port number? I saw the :s and another guide had a :t
Am I supposed to use :t to run it through Tor or something?
The letter is basically the
protocol identifier, though for each protocol there's a default port. It's not something related to Tor.
supported protocols (“t” = tcp@50001, “h” = http@8081, “s” = tcp/tls@50002, “g” = https@8082; non-standard port would be announced this way: “t3300” for tcp on port 3300)
I read that Bitcoin Core stores your wallet data (xpub etc) unencrypted on the desktop. Is there a setting to prevent that so only Electrum is handling the wallet data?
1. xpub is not a security concern.
2. I guess that it cannot work without that info in Bitcoin Core (that was my missing bit and one of the reasons I've dropped EPS), but, as we said in the past, maybe you consider switching to Electrs server which doesn't care/works as good no matter how many wallets you use in Electrum (and doesn't need any wallet info in Bitcoin core)
Also, is there a way to close the command line window of EPS once it's running? X-ing it out closes the server currently.
Did you try Ctrl-C?