Wednesday, November 14, 2018

how to watch bitcoin transactions? looking for a friend..

I'd like to watch bitcoin transactions (incoming and outgoing) for a specific set of addresses, asynchronously. Blockcypher has a REST-API that works fine, as well as a WebSocket API that doesn't really work at all (see also here).

I also created a fiddle. The only events that work are `ping` and `unconfirmed-tx`.

Is there any other event-based API that actually works, or do I really have to run my own full node?

PS - Go ahead and abuse my blockcypher API key ;)

The reason I included it is, because without the key not even the `unconfirmed-tx` event works. Also it's a free-tier key, so you won't be able to do anything fancy with it. :)


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