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Please run your copy of electrs with the --index-unspendables flag set to true #2961

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@supertestnet

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Per this PR: Blockstream/electrs#28 electrs can now index op_returns if the user runs it with the --index-unspendables flag as true. This allows people to query esplora for specific op_return data and get the txid that created that op_return, if it exists. I would appreciate it if this functionality was available on mempool.space.

Problem to be solved

I am making a protocol that relies on finding op_return data in bitcoin's blockchain, and currently the only web api I know of for querying this type of data is blockchair's. But blockchair's software stack is not open source and someday they will probably cease operations, plus their api is permissioned.

Proposed solution

If mempool.space runs electrs with the --index-unspendables flag as true, I can switch from using blockchair's api to using mempool.space, which is more censorship resistant because people can run their own copy of mempool.space.

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