Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The mining bot client should analyze the detail information about miner operation, like:
- How much bitcoin other miners burnt in last cycle?
- Who won the block in last cycle? What is the VRF function returns in last cycle?
Describe the solution you'd like
The stacks-blockchain connect bitcoind, a test bitcoin node of bitcoin network. Because the burn operation will reflect to "sending commit info and certain bitcoin to a bitcoin address", so we could track the bitcoin address and see who and what another address sent in the last cycle.
Pascal in Blockstack Community gives me another option:
The stacks-blockchain is a blockchain infrastructure, it has a database behind the blockchain. He said I can use database operation to get the information stored in block(like transaction). But referred to "how much other miners paid", it should be fetched by bitcoind absolutely, because the consensus information could not be fetched in stacks-blockchain.
Describe alternatives you've considered
- If we could launch our own test node and synced with "bitcoind.krypton.blockstack.org". Then monitoring each block, get how much other miners burnt in the last cycle.
Additional context
- In the mainnet, we could run a bitcoin lite node to monitoring the confirm block related to stacks-mining.