Re: [bitcoin-dev] Building a Bitcoin API and query system.

From: Blockchain Group <shekharhiran@gmail•com>
To: Matias Alejo Garcia <ematiu@gmail•com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Building a Bitcoin API and query system.
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:04:04 +0530	[thread overview]
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Thanks, I'll check it out.

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 9:17 PM Matias Alejo Garcia <ematiu@gmail•com> wrote:

> Hi Sumit,
>
> Take a look at https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore/tree/v8.0.0, it is a
> bitcoin indexing API server, with several modules, like a block explorer, a
> wallet module, etc. It is built using Node.js.
>
> matías
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:43 PM Joseph Gleason ⑈ via bitcoin-dev <
> bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
>> For what it is worth, electrum has a lot or possibly all of what you are
>> talking about since the electrum servers are designed to quickly answer the
>> queries of light clients.  So right now, you could sync up an electrum
>> server or use an existing public one and send queries to it with json-rpc.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx/blob/master/docs/protocol-methods.rst
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 5:36 AM Blockchain Group via bitcoin-dev <
>> bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I am C++ & Node.js developer. I want to propose making a new Bitcoin API
>>> that supports fast quering of Bitcoin blocks and transactions without the
>>> need for syncing with all previous nodes.
>>>
>>> In a typical case where I want to build a full fleged Bitcoin explorer
>>> cum wallet system on my end with external APIs, I need to sync my node and
>>> then query for the information I need to show separately. I am proposing a
>>> unified method of finding/quering the blockchain data with a standardized
>>> template containing minimal information about the actual mined block or
>>> transaction yet satify the need of what I want to query.
>>>
>>> I am working on making a template and a support mechanism on Node.js. I
>>> want to propose it as an improvement (BIP). It will be a great help to
>>> future web developers who want to make something similar.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Sumit Lahiri.
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> --
> Matías Alejo Garcia
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