Andy Parkins [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2013-07-23 📝 Original message:On Monday 22 July 2013 ...

📅 Original date posted:2013-07-23
📝 Original message:On Monday 22 July 2013 20:42:45 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> URL: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2844
>
> Adding an HTTP REST API for bitcoind has been occasionally tossed
> about as a useful thing. Such an API would essentially provide a
> decentralized block explorer capability, enabling easy external access
> to transaction/address/block indices that we maintain.

This is excellent.

> The first two implemented API calls are simple, returning a block or
> TX given a simple query string based on block hash, e.g.
>
> GET /rest/tx/TX-HASH
> or
> GET /rest/block/BLOCK-HASH

One additional URL makes this pretty much perfect:

GET /rest/block-with-tx/TX-HASH

Construction of the transaction-hash-to-block database is something the full
client's have to do anyway, so this query is no harder than the others for
them to supply; but suddenly makes it possible for an SPV client to trace the
providence of any transaction without needing to maintain the entire chain.


Andy

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