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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon C-Otto

Use (local) node as provider

Open C-Otto opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

If the user can provide a trusted bitcoind (or similar) instance, on-chain details should be retrieved locally instead of using public APIs. Besides the speed benefit this also increases privacy. If enabled, consider not persisting the information in the BitBook database.

C-Otto avatar Apr 08 '21 15:04 C-Otto

Even with txindex=1, bitcoind does not provide addresses for the inputs of transactions, which is necessary to traverse backwards. Furthermore, the most demanding feature is to get all transactions that somehow feed into / take from a given address. This, sadly, is something bitcoind does not support, at all.

C-Otto avatar Jan 24 '22 16:01 C-Otto

Reopening, as this can be done with (for example) electrs running in addition to a local bitcoind.

C-Otto avatar Feb 05 '22 13:02 C-Otto