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How well does electrum scale with long term use and many UTXOs?

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Let's say I've been living in a bitcoin utopia for a decade and I've been using electrum for all my financial dealings during this time (e.g. to receive my salary, get paid for contract work, pay for groceries, pay rent, ..etc). Let's say for whatever reason my bitcoins are scattered evenly across 10k receive/change addresses; that is, each one of those 10K address holds some small amount of bitcoin.

Here are my two questions:

  1. Ignoring what would happen when I try to spend bitcoin, how well would electrum be able to handle this pathological use-case? Would it be able to monitor 10,020 addresses (10k + default gap limit) at once? Would remote electrum servers continue to serve my electrum wallet?

  2. Assuming I used electum normally where all my bitcoin would end up near where the gap limit is (i.e 10k - #UTXOs), does electrum still monitor the ~10k spent UTXOs?


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