Not certain if blockchain.info posts belong on this forum, but they don't seem to have one of their own, so here goes.
I have been trying to understand the blockchain.info json queries.
But the more I play around with it, the more it confuses me.
I do two queries as follows (with $bitcoin_address obviously replaced with a valid address)
http://blockchain.info/address/$bitcoin_address?format=json&limit=50&offset=0
http://blockchain.info/address/$bitcoin_address?format=json&limit=50&offset=45
What I expected was to receive 2 blocks of 50 transactions in json format. (This indeed happened)
But what I also expected was that the last 5 transactions of the first query would overlap with the first 5 of the next query.
Is this correct? Because it does not seem to be the case.
I also tried it without the JSON bit, just looking at the normal bitcoin.info pages. Still not getting the expected overlap.
So can someone explain to me
(1) am I missing something obvious?
(2) am I misunderstanding the query?
(3) what sequence are used for the transactions? My assumption was that they are sorted according to the timestamp.
Thanks for any replies.
