Wladimir [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2014-08-08 📝 Original message:On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2014-08-08
📝 Original message:On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>> Something like `getutxos` or this proposal could be implemented as an
>> external application or script, instead of having to integrate
>> everything into bitcoind.
>
>
> Right, although getutxos needs access to the UTXO set which bitcoind already
> has. An external plugin would have to recalculate it from scratch which
> seems redundant.
Well to play the devil's advocate, you could set it up to query the
information back over RPC :-)
But yeah, I didn't mean getutxos specifically, it has a trivial
implementation anyway.
Wladimir
📝 Original message:On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>> Something like `getutxos` or this proposal could be implemented as an
>> external application or script, instead of having to integrate
>> everything into bitcoind.
>
>
> Right, although getutxos needs access to the UTXO set which bitcoind already
> has. An external plugin would have to recalculate it from scratch which
> seems redundant.
Well to play the devil's advocate, you could set it up to query the
information back over RPC :-)
But yeah, I didn't mean getutxos specifically, it has a trivial
implementation anyway.
Wladimir