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in SteemLeo • 5 years ago (edited)

I'm not sure what you mean by a dedicated p2p network. Steem Engine streams the whole blockchain right? I'm saying if all you want is a subset of data from a subset of custom_jsons, the right plug in would let you do that without the whole chain. The plug in would only need to be implemented once, then anyone (i.e. non-C++ devs) could use it. In fact Steem Engine could use it too.

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    Or maybe a plug in that allows push or pull of relevant IDs to support indexing externally without needing to stream the entire blockchain.

    Pushed to only registered IP addresses that are interested in those IDs. One way to implement this would be something like a p2p network. Although this comes with its own set of problems to solve (security, authentic inventory).

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      Right. If you are using RPC to a node now, you are trusting the node to be providing authentic data.

      A plugin to retrieve just the data you need inherits the same same trust requirement but with a lot less overhead. This is even true if using your own node on your own hardware, since retrieving all the data over RPC (only to discard 90%+ of it) is itself pretty expensive.

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