Stephen Pair gasteve
bdonlan
/ bitcoin api proposal.txt
Created
February 26, 2011 14:59
A proposal for bitcoin daemon boundraries and API calls.
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| Daemons: | |
| * bitcoin-netd | |
| Communicates with the bitcoin P2P network, and maintains a copy of the block chain and pending txns. | |
| Has functions for querying the block and txn chain. | |
| No private data whatsoever. | |
| API: | |
| * GetStatus() - Returns current latest block ID and generation number | |
| * GetPendingTransactions() - Returns transactions not yet in a block [may have filter fields of some sort] |