Ask HN: Making Bitcoind / litecoind / dogecoind multi-seat

2 points by spb 12y ago ↗ HN

I'm looking to make an ecosystem for building multiple apps (by multiple developers/teams) that can work with Dogecoin on a server, but I've hit a wall in how the Bitcoin server RPC API and its descendants are all designed to interact in effectively a single-user mode (every call acts on the same "wallet").

Would it be possible to put a server in front of a bitcoind (&c) instance, that could track the state of multiple users and limit them to API calls that could only affect themselves? And, if so, would that server need to run any bitcoin-specific logic (ie. logic that wouldn't apply to Litecoin, such as block rewards or SHA-256 hashing)?

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wmf 12y ago ↗

Maybe BitCore is closer to what you want. http://bitcore.io/

Personally I'd run a separate BitCore process per user or app, perhaps with a shared read-only no-wallet bitcoind providing the blockchain.

spb 12y ago ↗

That was actually my exact original intent, but I'm leaning toward giving up on it because:

- Bitcore has lots of Bitcoin-specific things

- I'd have to expose a wrapped RPC API anyway.