Marco Argentieri

Hey @kdmukai thanks for opening this issue. Do you know [every transaction broadcasted through the POST /tx endpoint](https://github.com/vulpemventures/nigiri#broadcast-a-raw-transaction-and-automatically-generate-a-block) on the Esplora service or `nigiri push `, automatically mines a block?...

> When I broadcast a tx via Sparrow, @kdmukai Do you know what Sparrow uses to broadcast tx? Does it require a Bitcoin JSONRPC to be available or uses a...

ah-ha I see, they use Electrum protocol over TCP, not Esplora REST. I think we could extend [nigiri-chopsticks](https://github.com/vulpemventures/nigiri-chopsticks/) HTTP passthrough to also monitor the Electrum port and mine the block...

Electrs exposes Electrum JSONRPC server over raw TCP, not JSONRPC over HTTP. I concur that the best thing would be to listen on an additional port for TCP on chopsticks:...

Interesting! let me try to replicate: Are you on Mac (Intel or Apple chip?) or Linux?

It seems bitcoin core has trouble syncing: can you try `nigiri stop --delete && nigiri start` again?

Does just waiting ie. 5 seconds help? I can't replicate the issue on Mac Apple chip

oh thank you so much for the debug! Will dive into it over next days

Can you try this latest release and see if it fixes on your side? https://github.com/vulpemventures/nigiri/releases/tag/v0.4.14

Thank you for reporting this @philippem We mostly test on MacOS, could be that there is some mismatches between bash/zsh etc.. The installer script is open source https://github.com/vulpemventures/nigiri-installer-script/blob/master/index.sh would you...