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helium / blockchain-http

An http API for the helium blockchain database
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use recent_activity as proxy for whether a Hotspot is online #389

Closed cokes518 closed 2 years ago

cokes518 commented 2 years ago

Instead of relying on gossiped data (that can take hours/days to update) to infer if a Hotspot is online or not, we should use activity.

If a Hotspot has had any of the following activity in the past 180 blocks (or 3 hours), consider it online, otherwise, display unknown.

Challenger Beaconer Witness Data Transferred

madninja commented 2 years ago

Instead of relying on gossiped data (that can take hours/days to update) to infer if a Hotspot is online or not, we should use activity.

If a Hotspot has had any of the following activity in the past 180 blocks (or 3 hours), consider it online, otherwise, display unknown.

Challenger Beaconer Witness Data Transferred

So would we still have the special case fake "online" after onboarding?

cokes518 commented 2 years ago

it was decided that we will not have a special case of fake "online" after onboarding. hotspots will be offline until they get a snapshot and start having on-chain activity, at which point they will say "online".

madninja commented 2 years ago

it was decided that we will not have a special case of fake "online" after onboarding. hotspots will be offline until they get a snapshot and start having on-chain activity, at which point they will say "online".

And "online" is inferred to mean any on-chain activity in the last 24 hours (of blocks), yeah?