Bitcoin full node and query server

May 22, 2026

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evoskuil19:49
Total time start to completion, 1 day for system math/test, 1 day for database archival/query/test, 1 day for Electrum subscriber method/test.
12 replies · pmienk, evoskuil, eynhaender · last May 23, 2026
pmienk19:51
so... they take 3 days to viably serve up to a wallet? fully validated?
evoskuil19:56
These are my estimated times to implement the additional electrum method in libbitcoin.
pmienk19:56
ahh, cool
pmienk19:57
time to eating their lunch
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evoskuil19:57
what was the other optional index were were talking about adding recently?
evoskuil19:58
If I was going to do one table addition I would do them both, wouldn't take much more time.
pmienk20:00
I don't recall, it was in the meeting yesterday?
evoskuil20:04
No, last couple weeks.
eynhaender20:24
inscriptions
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evoskuil20:31
How did I forget 🙄
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eynhaender20:32
lol
evoskuil18:15
I looked into this indexation more closely, and the real cost is the computational cost of a linear scan of essentially the entire tx history (a subset of all taproot txs) for every query. This is the same essential problem as stealth payments had, but this is heavily parallelizable, and can complete the history scan in like 10 seconds currently. But that requires an external dependency for server. Clean C++ MIT dependency, but a dependency nonetheless. OTOH as a personal server the problem is entirely manageable on a CPU.
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