[Bitcoin-development] HTTP REST API for bitcoind
Pieter Wuille
pieter.wuille at gmail.com
Tue Jul 23 09:56:02 UTC 2013
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Andy Parkins <andyparkins at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is actually no such index being maintained by default, and doing so
>> is an unnecessary burden IMHO (you need to enable -txindex since 0.8 to
>> get this). Of course, if enabled, it can be exposed.
>
> Wow. I'm surprised at that. How does a newly received transaction have its
> inputs verified then? Multiple linear brute force searches of the block chain
> for every new transaction? Or is it that transactions are only recorded if
> they were in a block, and just their presence indicates they're valid?
The block chain is not involved at all to verify transactions, it's
just a historical
record to serve to other nodes, and to do wallet rescans with.
For validation, a separate database with just unspent transaction
outputs is used (around 230 MB now).
--
Pieter
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