List of Bitcoin blockchain APIs - page 2.

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Quote from: arnuschky on March 15, 2015, 12:55:17 PM

Quote from: ravetrader on March 15, 2015, 06:25:25 AM

Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on March 15, 2015, 06:11:58 AM

Quote from: ravetrader on March 15, 2015, 04:46:55 AM

what exactly do these limits at BlockTrail mean?

Code:

1 request per second
86,400 requests per day
Burst Capabilities
2 per second
Dedicated Email Support
We're here to help!

Does it mean, that my application is only allowed to check for one transaction in one second?

Assumed i have an online shop, and 4 customers send 4 payments at the same time, then i will be able to check only for the confirmation of one payment out of 4 at once?

What are the costs for the "Pro" package?

No. You can only make one request per second. Please check their page for knowing the rates.

well but thats the point, what is meant by "request"?

A request is a http request, that means, a single call to their API per second. Your example might still work if they allow to check multiple addresses etc in a single request. But yes, most likely you'll need the pro package.

It's maybe worth mentioning here that BlockTrail now implements a 'Fair Use Policy' - so it's totally FREE

https://www.blocktrail.com/pricing

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Quote from: coinpr0n on April 17, 2015, 04:58:05 AM

Quote from: arnuschky on April 16, 2015, 02:36:42 PM

Just discovered https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-node, which seems to be a more focused successor of BitPay's insight API using their "bitcore" API (http://bitcore.io/guide/). Looks pretty nice, if you're aiming at self-hosting!

Wow. It looks great. I got my node blockchain up to date so it might be a good time to try this one out. Thanks for it!

Seems like a total memory muncher, though. Always crashed on my machine due to low memory, but I was running insight in parallel Roll Eyes

Still wondering why anyone would do a database in nodejs...

Would love to see a list of differences for bitcore-node vs. insight, for now it seems a bit like a copy.

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Quote from: arnuschky on April 16, 2015, 02:36:42 PM

Just discovered https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-node, which seems to be a more focused successor of BitPay's insight API using their "bitcore" API (http://bitcore.io/guide/). Looks pretty nice, if you're aiming at self-hosting!

Wow. It looks great. I got my node blockchain up to date so it might be a good time to try this one out. Thanks for it!

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Just discovered https://github.com/bitpay/bitcore-node, which seems to be a more focused successor of BitPay's insight API using their "bitcore" API (http://bitcore.io/guide/). Looks pretty nice, if you're aiming at self-hosting!

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Added block.io, a high-level wallet provider that supports multisig

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BTW, Hello block is not available anymore. Unfortunately, because they were the only ones apart from Toshi that passed my list-of-unspents test. :\

I removed them from the list.

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Quote from: ravetrader on March 15, 2015, 06:25:25 AM

Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on March 15, 2015, 06:11:58 AM

Quote from: ravetrader on March 15, 2015, 04:46:55 AM

what exactly do these limits at BlockTrail mean?

Code:

1 request per second
86,400 requests per day
Burst Capabilities
2 per second
Dedicated Email Support
We're here to help!

Does it mean, that my application is only allowed to check for one transaction in one second?

Assumed i have an online shop, and 4 customers send 4 payments at the same time, then i will be able to check only for the confirmation of one payment out of 4 at once?

What are the costs for the "Pro" package?

No. You can only make one request per second. Please check their page for knowing the rates.

well but thats the point, what is meant by "request"?

A request is a http request, that means, a single call to their API per second. Your example might still work if they allow to check multiple addresses etc in a single request. But yes, most likely you'll need the pro package.

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Quote from: Muhammed Zakir on March 15, 2015, 06:11:58 AM

Quote from: ravetrader on March 15, 2015, 04:46:55 AM

what exactly do these limits at BlockTrail mean?

Code:

1 request per second
86,400 requests per day
Burst Capabilities
2 per second
Dedicated Email Support
We're here to help!

Does it mean, that my application is only allowed to check for one transaction in one second?

Assumed i have an online shop, and 4 customers send 4 payments at the same time, then i will be able to check only for the confirmation of one payment out of 4 at once?

What are the costs for the "Pro" package?

No. You can only make one request per second. Please check their page for knowing the rates.

well but thats the point, what is meant by "request"?

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Quote from: ravetrader on March 15, 2015, 04:46:55 AM

what exactly do these limits at BlockTrail mean?

Code:

1 request per second
86,400 requests per day
Burst Capabilities
2 per second
Dedicated Email Support
We're here to help!

Does it mean, that my application is only allowed to check for one transaction in one second?

Assumed i have an online shop, and 4 customers send 4 payments at the same time, then i will be able to check only for the confirmation of one payment out of 4 at once?

What are the costs for the "Pro" package?

No. You can only make one request per second. Please check their page for knowing the rates.

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what exactly do these limits at BlockTrail mean?

Code:

1 request per second
86,400 requests per day
Burst Capabilities
2 per second
Dedicated Email Support
We're here to help!

Does it mean, that my application is only allowed to check for one transaction in one second?

Assumed i have an online shop, and 4 customers send 4 payments at the same time, then i will be able to check only for the confirmation of one payment out of 4 at once?

What are the costs for the "Pro" package?

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Quote from: arnuschky on February 17, 2015, 05:05:33 AM

Quote from: Mitchell on February 16, 2015, 06:59:05 AM

Why isn't BlockTrail under "High-level wallet APIs"? They have a wallet function and everything Blockchain.info has.

As far as I can see, they have a data API just like everyone else. Actually, I thought about removing the "high-level wallet API". I fail to see the advantage over just having your own wallet, and using one of the many data APIs to process payments.

Not sure if this would fall under High-level wallet API but Block.io seems to be another service offering some APIs. I haven't looked at the docs yet but heard about them a couple times in the past few days.

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Quote from: Mitchell on February 16, 2015, 06:59:05 AM

Why isn't BlockTrail under "High-level wallet APIs"? They have a wallet function and everything Blockchain.info has.

As far as I can see, they have a data API just like everyone else. Actually, I thought about removing the "high-level wallet API". I fail to see the advantage over just having your own wallet, and using one of the many data APIs to process payments.

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Why isn't BlockTrail under "High-level wallet APIs"? They have a wallet function and everything Blockchain.info has.

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Quote from: RocketSingh on February 12, 2015, 03:27:43 PM

Is there any API offered by blocktrail.com that allows to Push a Tx, e.g. https://blockchain.info/pushtx ?

Others do offer this service: Hello Block, chain.com, toshi...
(Note that the "push" functionality might have different names such as "propagate", "publish", etc)

"Blockr", a block-explorer service, also offers this functionality even tough they don't have an API: https://btc.blockr.io/tx/push

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Quote from: btcbb on February 13, 2015, 08:27:54 AM

Quote from: RocketSingh on February 12, 2015, 03:27:43 PM

Is there any API offered by blocktrail.com that allows to Push a Tx, e.g. https://blockchain.info/pushtx ?

not in this format, no.

You may say if it is available in any other format...

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Quote from: RocketSingh on February 12, 2015, 03:27:43 PM

Is there any API offered by blocktrail.com that allows to Push a Tx, e.g. https://blockchain.info/pushtx ?

not in this format, no.

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Quote from: btcbb on February 12, 2015, 07:05:25 AM

Quote from: tzpardi on February 12, 2015, 04:30:18 AM

Thanks for answering, that's great, the multisig makes a perfect sense from security viewpoint. On the other hand what happens terms of transferring the coins if the service provider, in this case BlockTrail goes out of business? Since the service provider won't be able to sign the transaction how the coins can be transferred from my address? The BlockTrail website states that "You're always able to spend your coins using your primary key together with your backup key", is that means 2 keys from the three (which are my key, backup key and BlockTrail's key) are enough to perform a transaction?

I am actually planning to accept Bitcoin within our business and searching for an online wallet solution that offers a robust API as well. The Blockchain.info service is a great and matured solution, but I am concerned that Blockchain.info keeps full control over the wallet, while BlockTrail claims that they address this issue by letting users retain full control over the wallet. The BlockTrail API looks good as well, it seems the team at BlockTrail has done a great job so far.

Terms of the HD wallet, again, to mitigate the risk of the service provider BlockTrail goes out of business, should users make a backup of their wallet after every transaction or how can be the coins accessible in case if the BlockTrail servers aren't operational?

Hey Tzpardi,

Again excellent question. Even if a meteor falls down directly on BlockTrail HQ and we are no longer able to sign a transaction, you STILL have access to your coins because you have 2 out of 3 keys, and two keys are always necessary to sign your transactions. So if BlockTrail is not around, you take the second key that you kept in cold storage and you sign your coins using your own two keys. You can do this manually, but we'll also be adding a tool to our SDK to help you do this easily.

The beauty of HD wallet capabilities is that you never need to backup anything except for the 'master seed'. This is because using cryptography, you can recover all your addresses (and their keys) from this master seed. So essentially, after you've secured your master seed in a safe, you never need to make a backup ever again!

Is there any API offered by blocktrail.com that allows to Push a Tx, e.g. https://blockchain.info/pushtx ?

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Is this thread about apis or multi-sig?

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Quote from: tzpardi on February 12, 2015, 04:30:18 AM

Thanks for answering, that's great, the multisig makes a perfect sense from security viewpoint. On the other hand what happens terms of transferring the coins if the service provider, in this case BlockTrail goes out of business? Since the service provider won't be able to sign the transaction how the coins can be transferred from my address? The BlockTrail website states that "You're always able to spend your coins using your primary key together with your backup key", is that means 2 keys from the three (which are my key, backup key and BlockTrail's key) are enough to perform a transaction?

I am actually planning to accept Bitcoin within our business and searching for an online wallet solution that offers a robust API as well. The Blockchain.info service is a great and matured solution, but I am concerned that Blockchain.info keeps full control over the wallet, while BlockTrail claims that they address this issue by letting users retain full control over the wallet. The BlockTrail API looks good as well, it seems the team at BlockTrail has done a great job so far.

Terms of the HD wallet, again, to mitigate the risk of the service provider BlockTrail goes out of business, should users make a backup of their wallet after every transaction or how can be the coins accessible in case if the BlockTrail servers aren't operational?

Hey Tzpardi,

Again excellent question. Even if a meteor falls down directly on BlockTrail HQ and we are no longer able to sign a transaction, you STILL have access to your coins because you have 2 out of 3 keys, and two keys are always necessary to sign your transactions. So if BlockTrail is not around, you take the second key that you kept in cold storage and you sign your coins using your own two keys. You can do this manually, but we'll also be adding a tool to our SDK to help you do this easily.

The beauty of HD wallet capabilities is that you never need to backup anything except for the 'master seed'. This is because using cryptography, you can recover all your addresses (and their keys) from this master seed. So essentially, after you've secured your master seed in a safe, you never need to make a backup ever again!

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