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Building a BDK walkthrough style book
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Add Page: Architecture of the BDK Ecosystem #43

Open thunderbiscuit opened 1 month ago

thunderbiscuit commented 1 month ago

This issue tracks the addition of a first page to the Architecture Section of the book.

@llfourn had previously volunteered to write it, and I think he'd be the perfect person to do it indeed.

Here are some ideas on what I thought it could contain (just some suggestions):

  1. Not about the historical "why", or how it was built in the past and why we needed to break those up. This is for another page, or maybe best for a blog post on the bitcoindevkit.org website.
  2. As I see it the 9 crates break into 4 families (plus a 5th wheel):
    1. Wallets (wallet)
    2. Chain data (chain + core)
    3. Persistence (file_store + sqlite)
    4. Blockchain clients (bitcoind_rpc + electrum + esplora)
    5. Hardware signers (hwi) -> potentially being deprecated

I think it'd be great to have the page be about how (a) the 4 families come together, (b) why they are separate, and (c) why that's a good thing.

LLFourn commented 3 weeks ago

My plan would like to focus on the design of chain and reference how other things in how they connect to it.

thunderbiscuit commented 2 weeks ago

Sounds good to me!

LLFourn commented 22 hours ago

I started working on this a bit :)