Title: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: bfever on August 25, 2012, 10:05:57 PM Announcing The BiRD, short for "Bitcoin Relational Database".
It is an alternative "medium-weight" Bitcoin client for Windows with the following main features:
To provide an alternative, medium-weight client to developers of new Bitcoin applications with a simple interface based on a MySQL database. Nevertheless, up-to-date data including unconfirmed transactions are available (to counteract any double spend attempts). History: First release v0.1.0 alfa Current weak(er) points:
More information can be found at the website UBiCard.org (http://www.ubicard.org/index.php/tech-client), including download of the compiled version and snapshots of the database at different block heights. It will be part of a larger project including a smart card (for storing the private keys and sign transactions) and a GUI client managing the wallets, cards and payments. Any feedback/questions is much appreciated. Thilo von Braun Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: paraipan on August 25, 2012, 10:40:57 PM Interesting, will be watching closely the progress of this project
Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: apetersson on August 25, 2012, 10:46:16 PM i like the idea of easy sql selects locally. enables many interesting applications.
so it is a rpc client? or does it use p2p commands? if it ONLY stores the unspent ouputs, how does it react to chain reorganisations? Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: justusranvier on August 25, 2012, 11:16:57 PM
Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: bfever on August 26, 2012, 07:13:27 AM so it is a rpc client? or does it use p2p commands? It uses the bitcoin p2p protocol: setting up a connection using TCP 8333, sending version/verack messages and getting data using getblocks and so on.(just like an original Satoshi client) if it ONLY stores the unspent ouputs, how does it react to chain reorganisations? The standard data flow (no chain reorganisation) is as follows:
If a chain reorganisation happens, the received block does not append to the end of the block chain but some blocks (mostly 1 or 2) deeper down the chain. As BiRD maintains a chain list (and full block data) of the latest 10 blocks as explained above, it can remove the obsolete (orphaned) blocks and accept the new block instead. Only if a chain reorganisation should occur more then 10 blocks deep, BiRD will not be able to cope that, but then there is probably something bigger going on (as in attack of the block chain). Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: Seal on September 11, 2012, 07:41:52 AM Interesting project. I could see how this could benefit a number of services.
So is this pitched towards existing developers of bitcoin apps/sites? What's your personal goal for the service? Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: bfever on September 12, 2012, 08:29:41 PM So is this pitched towards existing developers of bitcoin apps/sites? What's your personal goal for the service? I started developing this client about a year ago when the official client was version 0.3.24 something. The reason being simple: after a few tries, I couldn't get to compile it on Windows, and I need(ed) some extra features which weren't available at that time:
Why do I need those features ? Well, I'm working on a smart card that is able to sign bitcoin transactions with a setup similar to this: smartcard <-> GUI client <-> BiRD <-> Bitcoin Network So that's my personal goal. In fact, the project is nearly ready for its first release (but I don't like vapourware, so I did not announce anything yet). In short, the GUI client does the following:
But I think many kind of applications (websites, even smartphone apps) can benefit from BiRD (being a much easier interface to the block chain), so I decided to make it open-source and available to everyone (it's EUPL). Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: eb3full on September 12, 2012, 09:13:49 PM I think choosing MySQL for this was a bad idea. Hopefully it's not too late to switch to something else. Why not SQLite?
How does this cope with orphaned blocks? Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: ThomasV on September 12, 2012, 09:25:24 PM congratulations! cool project.
it would be nice to use this as a backend for the Electrum server. (currently, the Electrum server can use bitcoind+abe or libbitcoin) Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: dooglus on September 19, 2012, 05:38:33 AM It is an alternative "medium-weight" Bitcoin client for Windows Do you have plans to make it available for any other operating systems? Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: crazy_rabbit on February 05, 2013, 03:12:17 PM This is quite interesting. Has there been additional progress on BiRD? Has there been any thought to implementing something like MongoDB?
Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: nimda on March 16, 2013, 01:32:53 AM It is an alternative "medium-weight" Bitcoin client for Windows Do you have plans to make it available for any other operating systems? Does this prune all spent outputs? Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: ralree on March 17, 2013, 08:27:11 PM Have you heard the news?
About the BIRD? https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2WNrx2jq184 Title: Re: [ANNOUNCE]The BiRD Post by: Wed on May 09, 2013, 06:48:51 PM It sounds very interesting. I will follow this
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