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+These are scripts and small utilities developers or power-users might find interesting.
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+They are standalone, don't depend on each other and nothing depends on them.
+Neither the GUI nor the CLI should depend on these in any way.
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+The scripts use electrum as a python library, sometimes as a goal in itself, to showcase how to script something.