[Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services

[Wladimir]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>> Something like `getutxos` or this proposal could be implemented as an
>> external application or script, instead of having to integrate
>> everything into bitcoind.
>
>
> Right, although getutxos needs access to the UTXO set which bitcoind already
> has. An external plugin would have to recalculate it from scratch which
> seems redundant.

Well to play the devil's advocate, you could set it up to query the
information back over RPC :-)

But yeah, I didn't mean getutxos specifically, it has a trivial
implementation anyway.

Wladimir