On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Lars Pensjö <lars.pen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a good idea if GOA could support Bitcoin? > With that, I don't mean a full blockchain. I haven't looked at the > protocol, but support for generating addresses and support for information > about confirmations (and maybe some more things) would be nice. That would > make it easy to create a web site that allows transactions in bitcoin, > generating a new address for each transaction. > You can already run bitcoin libraries on App Engine, and those libraries should provide most, if not all of the functionality you need. For instance, see https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine-go/kAby7T0kkoA/EVVnhSHx9FoJ If you need to access the whole blockchain, that's quite a bit of data. You'll need to open up a Compute Engine machine, download and continuously update the blockchain, and create an API to pipe requests between GCE and your App Engine application. ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL App Engine Code Samples: http://www.learntogoogleit.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
