[Bitcoin-development] HTTP REST API for bitcoind
Andy Parkins
andyparkins at gmail.com
Tue Jul 23 10:02:06 UTC 2013
On Tuesday 23 July 2013 10:56:02 Pieter Wuille wrote:
> 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.
It must be involved to some extent. Certainly during a temporary fork, there
are two branches growing, and you have to be able, when verifying a new
transaction, to say which branch it's one... which branch of the blockchain.
Andy
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