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From: "Rob Golding" <rob.golding@astutium.com>
To: <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Getting trusted metrics from the block chain in an untrusted environment ?
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 14:03:08 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003e01cf0d43$86521550$92f63ff0$@golding@astutium.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP63atZBJqi6oN9EbPxzEo4qk5ZMgEKQ11NSPWmU65FypDdbzw@mail.gmail.com>

> My program should run on lightweight/embedded hardware. The execution
> environment provides access to the Bitcoin network but not enough
> resources to set up a trusted node along with my program. 

So you want to 'benefit' from the network without contributing to it ?

> I would need a way to ask an untrusted Bitcoin node to compute some
> 'metric request' on my behalf and having the result of that metric
> request validated by the network.

Not going to happen - why would anyone be interested in providing you 'free
compute resources' ?

> Is there any available or work-in-progress projects that would come
> close to this need ? Or should I do it myself ? :-)

Setup a node, create an API interface and have your 'app' use your API on
yoru node :p

Rob




      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-09 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-08 19:38 [Bitcoin-development] Getting trusted metrics from the block chain in an untrusted environment ? Clément Elbaz
2014-01-08 19:44 ` Clément Elbaz
2014-01-08 22:29   ` Clément Elbaz
2014-01-09 17:46   ` Clément Elbaz
2014-01-09 14:03 ` Rob Golding [this message]

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