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

From: Matias Alejo Garcia <ematiu@gmail•com>
To: fireduck@gmail•com,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
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Cc: shekharhiran@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Building a Bitcoin API and query system.
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:47:10 -0300	[thread overview]
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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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