Skip to content
This repository has been archived by the owner on Jul 18, 2023. It is now read-only.

Implement different providers for Bitcoin block headers #7

Open
gcarq opened this issue May 3, 2016 · 2 comments
Open

Implement different providers for Bitcoin block headers #7

gcarq opened this issue May 3, 2016 · 2 comments

Comments

@gcarq
Copy link

gcarq commented May 3, 2016

Currently fetchd.py pulls Bitcoin block headers from blockr.io, as this is a single point of failure the script should implement an option to pull from a local Bitcoin node.

@ethers
Copy link
Contributor

ethers commented Sep 3, 2016

Yes, this needs improvement.

Another issue, currently affecting this script is using blockchain.info to get the latest block height:
data = make_request('https://blockchain.info/latestblock')

bci is currently missing blocks for 4hrs:
Home Welcome to Blockchain More...
Height Age Transactions Total Sent Relayed By Size (kB)
428046 4 hours 10 minutes 1647 10,815.28 BTC F2Pool 999.93
428045 4 hours 23 minutes 1493 7,279.14 BTC F2Pool 999.82
428044 4 hours 32 minutes 2434 12,737.90 BTC BitFury 998

@rainbreak
Copy link

Another fallback would be to talk to an electrum server.

Sign up for free to subscribe to this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in.
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

3 participants