A lightweight, reliable transaction indexer integrated into Core would’ve been a game-changer compared to duct-taping Electrum or relying on third-party infra. Instead, dev attention drifted, and we’re left with bloat, memes, and fragmentation.

Wen next bitcoin.review sir ?

Fulcrum is pretty good.

Isn't their thing allegedly reducing the codebase?

libbitcoinkernel should hopefully make that more feasible

Blockstream and mempool forks of electors work quite nicely.

https://jump.ohstr.com/nevent1qqspzj8tcx9xu6ypqzy984p7dlzppea2nwthcmf6n9rdjp26a0jgvpqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqygpwkqap7vtv8nuujq8875mwu289fp35jpnmuqv2jed8cl99knml8sazrtl8 I think there is some momentum towards that. The chain interface + the work being done on parallelizing indexing might also ...