Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Double spend detection to speed up transaction trust

From: Matt Corallo <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:38:25 +0200

On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 16:07 -0400, Andrew Schaaf wrote:
> One double-spend fighting option is for each mining pool to offer a realtime feed of accepted TXs.
> 
> I am hoping to complete the following later this month:
> 	
> 	(1) A minimal bitcoind patch that writes raw accepted TXs and BLOCKs to stdout with a prefix of ("2naXaRQj--TX\n%d\n" % (data_length))
> 		(Proof-of-concept done — I'll submit a pull request with "--print-accepted-txs-and-blocks" when I get a chance to clean it up)
> 	
> 	(2) A minimal NodeJS app which invokes bitcoind as a subprocess, parses the TXs and BLOCKs, and offers a realtime feed

They already do if they provide the IP of their node (or a proxy node on
top of theirs which would be recommended for security).  This has been
my whole point the entire time.

Matt