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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
To: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 08:06:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0PQYOOXoniDJFvb4Cy=-0cbh5bxWrYQO72mCAo-zXBJnQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJCbCRQP_w3g-0qtA6K8qrf6ywNfJ9d1367gSTfgCwgU2Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net> wrote:
>> I'd like to see a mechanism whereby a Bitcoin node can delegate processing
>> of unknown messages to an external process, so a P2P node can be composed
>> out of separated programs, but such a service would be indistinguishable at
>> the network layer from one provided by Bitcoin Core itself, so a service bit
>> would be appropriate for those.
>
> This diverges from the topic but seems like a good idea to me in
> general, not so much as replacement for jgarzik's proposal.
>
> Something like `getutxos` or this proposal could be implemented as an
> external application or script, instead of having to integrate
> everything into bitcoind.

Seconded.  Command plug-ins and such seem like an idea worth exploring.

We don't need to shove everything into bitcoind.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-08 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-08  3:38 Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08  9:45 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08  9:56   ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 10:01     ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 10:15       ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 10:26         ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 10:41           ` Christian Decker
2014-08-08 11:22             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 11:33       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 11:38         ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 11:59           ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 12:06             ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2014-08-08 12:11             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 12:15               ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 12:11             ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 12:15               ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 12:16               ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 12:34               ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 13:55                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 12:04           ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 12:13             ` Mike Hearn

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