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From: Oliver Egginger <bitcoin@olivere.de>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] bitcoind as a library
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:22:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5478AF53.1010506@olivere.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJDKB7JoxiULAZ_22i6T0=LMw+78tmXRBs2HRoJJDAQSyQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Mem Wallet <memwallet.info@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Is there an intention that the various internal libraries could/should
>> be strengthened and heirachicalized such that they would be suitable for
>> 3rd party development of bitcoin related services and tools, or is that not
>> a goal, and some other project would have to fill such a role ?
> 
> The plan is to provide the consensus functionality as a library, the
> essential parts that make bitcoin bitcoin.
> 0.10 will have a basic transaction/script verifier available.
> In the version after that, I expect this will be extended to further
> utxo set management, but no API has been worked out for that yet.
> There are also plans to add a library for transaction signing.
> 
> However there is no goal to expose *everything* as a library.
> Certainly not wallet- or user interface related functionality.
> Specialized utility libraries would fill this purpose better.
> See for example https://github.com/bitcoin/libbase58 for base58 processing.


Sorry for the off-topic but while reading this I like to ask you for
picocoin, see:

https://github.com/jgarzik/picocoin

For a research project I'm looking for a C library to operate some block
chain analysis (parsing raw blocks and transactions). Has anyone of you
experience with picocoin for that? Are there any relevant limitations?

- oliver



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-28 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-27 17:27 [Bitcoin-development] bitcoind as a library Mem Wallet
2014-11-27 17:54 ` Wladimir
2014-11-27 20:07   ` odinn
2014-11-28 17:22   ` Oliver Egginger [this message]
2014-11-28 17:49     ` Btc Drak
2014-11-30 16:38       ` Jeff Garzik

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