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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 07:37:47 -0400
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To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Core 0.10 release schedule
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Melvin Carvalho
<melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you think it would a reasonable idea to put down some thoughts and
> proposals in a BIP?

It would certainly be nice to start with a document that reflects the
new REST interface.  That makes a good starting point for further
discussion.

In general the interface exports what information is already
available.  As Wladimir notes, there is no plan to turn this into a
full fledged block explorer, if that implies adding indices etc.

Feedback on the HTTP headers and form, and additional thoughts &
proposals are welcome.  My pull request is intended to present
something minimal, that is easy to review and merge.  My own list of
further to-dos includes

* last-modified and etag headers
* export UTXOs a la Mike Hearn's getutxos query
* eventually rebuild the RPC server to something multithreaded a la
https://github.com/jgarzik/rpcsrv

PR #2844 @ https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2844

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/