[Bitcoin-development] Getting trusted metrics from the block chain in an untrusted environment ?

Rob Golding rob.golding at astutium.com
Thu Jan 9 14:03:08 UTC 2014


> My program should run on lightweight/embedded hardware. The execution
> environment provides access to the Bitcoin network but not enough
> resources to set up a trusted node along with my program. 

So you want to 'benefit' from the network without contributing to it ?

> I would need a way to ask an untrusted Bitcoin node to compute some
> 'metric request' on my behalf and having the result of that metric
> request validated by the network.

Not going to happen - why would anyone be interested in providing you 'free
compute resources' ?

> Is there any available or work-in-progress projects that would come
> close to this need ? Or should I do it myself ? :-)

Setup a node, create an API interface and have your 'app' use your API on
yoru node :p

Rob





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