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

2014-01-09 Thread Clément Elbaz
Hi Rob, Thank you for answering. > So you want to 'benefit' from the network without contributing to it ? > Not going to happen - why would anyone be interested in providing you 'free compute resources' ? Not free. As I stated in my second email ("some more thoughts" etc.), it seems really fitt

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

2014-01-09 Thread Rob Golding
> 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 a

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

2014-01-08 Thread Clément Elbaz
Hello all, It seems there was a problem with my first email (thank you Mark for the heads up), so I'll copy paste it there : --- Hello all, I'm designing a program that needs some metrics computed from the Bitcoin block chain (some address balances, or the occurrence or not o

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

2014-01-08 Thread Clément Elbaz
Some more thoughts : If no such project exist yet, I thought it could work with an alternate, small and fixed-length 'metric request block chain' of some sort. It would temporarily stores structures defined as [metric request | current block number when request was made | hash of the response] in

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

2014-01-08 Thread Clément Elbaz
Hello all, I'm designing a program that needs some metrics computed from the Bitcoin block chain (some address balances, or the occurrence or not of a specific transaction). The kind of infos you get from http://blockchain.info/, provided you trust this website (my program do not). My program sho