PayButton Indexer Update

Hi guys!

On Wednesday we completed the first version of the new app indexer (BCHC) intended to replace supersede BCHD.

We started integrating it into PayButton yesterday but will still require a bit more time to have that working + tested.

If you'd like to support the effort, we are still running a small flipstarter to cover the costs of having to hire a developer for this.

For those curious, here's a few areas that have been improved over the current pre-release of BCHD (in order of importance):

• Much more stable - no longer needing to periodically restart the indexer due to unrecoverable crashes
• Faster - for example, loading in addresses with lots of transactions is no problem; we plan on publishing some benchmarks that showcase the difference
• Minimal maintenance - simply upgrading the connected BCHN node is all that's required to stay in consensus; ABLA for example is already supported
• Fallback Support - it's trivial to connect multiple BCHC instances to a single app to better ensure 100% uptime if maintenance is needed
• Easier to use - includes a properly maintained JS library

There's more that we'd like to do but we think this is good for now given that the app usage on BCHD has been completely reset.

If you have other questions about the project, feel free to ask.