The obvious question is why involve a blockchain at all. I don't think there is a coherent answer to that question.
The second is why are we asking people to poll for information instead of broadcasting it to them via something like webhooks? It's much easier to notify people of updates rather than have them constantly ask for updates.
This suddenly becomes less questionable after Trump wants to legally challenge the election. Blockchain is an immutable and public database, the popular blockhains have economic incentives to be kept alive/running for the operators and protects against censor, so its an obvious place to store public data that needs/should be audited.
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This API is confusing for multiple reasons.
The obvious question is why involve a blockchain at all. I don't think there is a coherent answer to that question.
The second is why are we asking people to poll for information instead of broadcasting it to them via something like webhooks? It's much easier to notify people of updates rather than have them constantly ask for updates.
This suddenly becomes less questionable after Trump wants to legally challenge the election. Blockchain is an immutable and public database, the popular blockhains have economic incentives to be kept alive/running for the operators and protects against censor, so its an obvious place to store public data that needs/should be audited.