Changing Bitcoin client

[fed-franz]

(Before I put myself on developing something useless...)
Is it possible to leverage an SPV client (e.g.: picocoin), instead of the full node Bitcoin-Core?
In other words, do you think I can modify the lib to make use of a lightweight client?

[gidgreen]

I believe the answer is yes because the underlying protocol is designed to work with lightweight clients. But you can check by searching for OP_RETURN_bitcoin_cmd in the code and checking that your SPV client can provide the same functionality as those calls.

[fed-franz]

This is very helpful.
It seems that it makes use of the RPC service of bitcoind (Bitcoin Core).
Unfortunately I don't know SPV clients providing this type of service. (If you're aware of any please tell me)

Anyway, since it also has the option of working through the command line program, I could try to modify it to make it work with some other client providing the same raw data.

Thanks!