I have an application that needs to makes queries to get address balances and transaction data from Bitcoin.
What are some possible solutions to this? It would be great if I didn't have to manage a full node if possible.
asked Jul 24 '20 at 17:23
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4Host your own node, and run some code that allows you to make these queries to it. If you are handling customer funds this is the responsible thing to do. – chytrik Jul 24 '20 at 20:44
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You can use a self-hosted (but low-burden!) instance of Esplora.
Blockstream is also exposing an instance for free (at the moment) at blockstream.info.
Disclaimer: if you take part of Bitcoin as an economic actor (as an application providing account balances may imply), you should really consider using your own source of truth and self-host the instance. It's just a docker to start and an nginx reverse proxy to set up after all :-).
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i forgot why i couldn't use blockstream.info for whatever technical reason. But is there another alternative? My main thing is checking if there is there a balance at an address and if an address has an outgoing or incoming transaction. – Patoshi パトシ Jul 24 '20 at 19:16
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There are APIs at all most famous explorer, on the top of my head: mempool.space (mempool.space/about), blockchair (blockchair.com/bitcoin), blockcypher (live.blockcypher.com/btc). That said, the best one I know of is Esplora's one (even though mempool.space is great for Bisq support). I'd be very interested in knowing what you couldn't use BS.info. – darosior Jul 24 '20 at 21:21
