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Topic
Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 4 from 1 user
Re: An API for returning blocks and transaction with illegal content filtered
by
Donneski
on 17/09/2025, 09:58:17 UTC
⭐ Merited by vapourminer (4)
I think the main risk here is not just altering data but the precedent it sets. Once you create an API that edits blockchain responses, you’ve basically introduced a middle layer of truth that people have to trust. Bitcoin’s whole foundation is that the data is verifiable and final, no one edits it for you.

If you're creating a service to sanitize for legal reasons, that's fair but it should be clear to the end user that they’re interacting with a filtered view. That way, you keep the trust model intact without creating confusion or accidental reliance on a modified dataset.