Hi,
I am using one of the bitcoin Ruby libraries out there (
https://github.com/lian/bitcoin-ruby) and I can use it to construct a valid transaction, and get the raw data thereof. I want to then publish that transaction to the bitcoin network.
Are there any scripts or tools that can run on a server to publish an arbitrary valid transaction? Does someone offer a service to do as much?
In other words, imagine I had created the following transaction (I just grabbed it from blockexplorer.com), how do I go about publishing it to other bitcoin nodes?
{
"hash":"a3ac439de09be35adaf9849e37b497c19b23f1f8d832b0a84902f7b0044ed531",
"ver":1,
"vin_sz":1,
"vout_sz":2,
"lock_time":0,
"size":259,
"in":[
{
"prev_out":{
"hash":"3e62a213b7706b14346a710f2a0b95cbf58ebaec6f76286d29526ac8058c171a",
"n":0
},
"scriptSig":"3046022100e0999e9fe9c7b4736fd5dd8907b29b35b0816b8b3103f5b17a8a25eb81d8e8a002210
08090d5f89529667dcdaf1a8bef995ceca30a2e3da4b6c0771325c0dddece45bb01 04ae3bbf874401fdef5001c91a7d6668df16b4517b14e8ede95cef45223496dea7e4fd776083fef
941664417924424891e55a4f77973062d982c644987d3b5936b"
}
],
"out":[
{
"value":"380.00980000",
"scriptPubKey":"OP_DUP OP_HASH160 34896b26f47edae1ad757ccc7ec248c9aafa3a1b OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG"
},
{
"value":"49.99020000",
"scriptPubKey":"OP_DUP OP_HASH160 a2483d6845de9892fb9bf57924b32f6698f1d0f1 OP_EQUALVERIFY OP_CHECKSIG"
}
]
}
Note: I've been told the Ruby library above can do it, but I don't know much about building services that connect to other computers and send data back and forth, and so even after looking at the code I don't understand what I'm supposed to do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
~Mat
