The Bitcoin blockchain parsing is taking far longer than I expected. RPC was so fast. I was going to recreate the sharedrop from the blockchain but this takes far too long. Hopefully this pass is enough to extract a valid JSON for a testnet. Otherwise I will likely remove BTC from testnet v1.
Problems -
What is a good cut-off point for dropping addresses? Every BTC address is not getting a piddling sharedrop. With the rate of parsing the DB with bitcoind we need to slurp the results in memory for pruning via this method in order to correct our release lag.
I would like to continue posting my "diary" here but it would appear we need to post more on bitcointalk. This does not fit in with my timezone but we will see.
I found a simpler way to do Nov 5th snapshots via a bitsharestalk thread.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=11084 The downside is we are trusting the data presented but we may or may not use this in the live chain.
We started with a base of build_sharedrop.py and will create a sharedrop json from that.
We still need to recruite delegates. On the assumption the underlying protocol is sound then few Delegates are needed for the first round.