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> You've a wealth of freely accessible data in the form of the 20GB blockchain, why rely on trusting a third party for their uptime, privacy and security? Exce
by runeks 12y ago
> You've a wealth of freely accessible data in the form of the 20GB blockchain, why rely on trusting a third party for their uptime, privacy and security?
Except an address index, which is the added value that most of these types of services provide (balance of an address, transactions associated with a particular address, etc.).
- nwh 12y agoNobody except for people running block explorers really needs this information. If you think you need it then you're probably using Bitcoin completely wrong. Address based indexes don't scale, which is why it doesn't create or even need one.