Yep... relying on the indexers can be a bit of a pain. It's…

staub · February 3, 2026

Yep... relying on the indexers can be a bit of a pain. It's 3rd party access to the blockchain... and not resilient like the p2p, small-world network Bitcoin is designed to offer.
Hopefully modern browsers will one day implement the BCAT (B://) protocol, or similar, like _unwriter had done with the Bottle browser. I think using that protocol, with direct links to content, I don't think you even need an indexer to grab stuff on-chain. Indexers I think are only required for searching. Surprised somebody hasn't built a Chrome extension to handle this...

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KURO · February 4, 2026

Yes, one of my next goals is to create self-contained blockchain art that doesn't rely on indexers. Recently, my recursive interactive art (the mechanism for retrieving on-chain data) stopped working. I think it's probably due to a bug in ordfs .network (although my coding mistakes also played a part...).
However, at this point, I don't think there's any other way to fix it than to set up my own node.
https://app.treechat.com/p/3faedba5-51ad-42e2-a1a4-dcfba94e246e

mikey · February 23, 2026

I remember BCAT, unwriter thats how i put my first video onchain. this one is 100MB, and in BCAT format. 2019 still there and works
https://plugins.whatsonchain.com/api/plugin/main/54dd9fe306fa8cdecd4e955ec5cb7332044f6b5ed8806cd500c728b53963323e/0?chain=bsv