Thanks. The ICP is the crux of the issue with the hosting at the moment. We're working on it.... red tape is enormous and we don't want to rock the boat too early.
understandable.
so where will you be putting those servers?
if you're serving the mainland, then this is critical (us and eu are really out of the question)
i've done extensive testing in hong kong and singapore (still need to test from taiwan)
hong kong had the best performance, but signapore had the best infrastructure.
On the blockchain.info api... Let's see. It will be costing me more than self hosting since they charge transaction fees on moves. The record to date of people running their own isn't great. I'm prepared to fall back on my own.
no it is not. but there in lies the challenge.
not a c programmer so i can't make any sense of bitcoind, but check out
bitcoinj as well as
bitcoinjs-server.