Glenn Wolfe

Introduction to TXT

What if your application's entire database was a single, shareable file? Discover how the TXT protocol makes building peer-to-peer apps radically simple.

Introduction to TXT
#1about 5 minutes

A brief history of Planaria's Bitcoin development tools

The evolution of Planaria's tools is traced from early open-source projects to the professionalized "grid" infrastructure needed to handle on-chain data growth.

#2about 12 minutes

Querying the blockchain with the Grid API suite

An overview and demonstration of the core Planaria APIs, including Bitsocket for real-time data, Bitbus for historical queries, and BitFS for large file handling.

#3about 3 minutes

Understanding TXT as a peer-to-peer database management system

TXT is introduced as a database management system tightly coupled with Bitcoin, enabling portable, peer-to-peer applications using a simple SQLite file format.

#4about 7 minutes

Live demo of populating a TXT database with Bitpic

A practical demonstration shows how to use Bitpic to crawl Bitbus, populate a local TXT database, and create a portable 2.3 MB database file.

#5about 2 minutes

Exploring the future of peer-to-peer with POW Ping

A new experimental protocol called POW Ping is introduced as an extreme approach to peer-to-peer interactions, with more details to be released in the future.

#6about 13 minutes

Q&A on smart contract indexing, SPV, and databases

The discussion covers future plans for indexing smart contracts, the role of SPV in relation to Planaria's services, and whether TXT makes traditional databases obsolete.

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