Super Testnet11d agoA project in 2018 called Webcoin built a bitcoin browser wallet in SPV mode
Details here: https://github.com/mappum/webcoin
To talk to bitcoin nodes, it relied on a TCP->Websocket proxy called Webcoin Bridge
Details here: https://github.com/mappum/webcoin-bridge
Is anyone running that bridge anymore?
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Super Testnet11d agoIt's annoyingly hard to use bitcoin's p2p layer from browsers. BTC nodes don't understand the handshakes browsers do when they make GET/POST requests, unless you use RPC, which is permissioned. It's cool that Webcoin found a way, but it only works if folks run the bridge software
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Super Testnet11d agoA few services make data from bitcoin's p2p layer *available* to browsers, e.g. block explorers, some electrum servers (including esplora servers), and block-dn. But it'd be great if browsers could talk to *any* node instead of placing the load directly on those limited services.
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