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Based on bitcoind, I noticed several derivative work like bitpay insight has the ability to push new block and transaction realtime to browser.
Reading document of bitcoind I see that bitcoind have blocknotify which let me achieve similar thing for block. But there is no equivalent for transaction. I would like to be notified whenever a new transaction is sent to my node, how can I do it with bitcoind?
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Have a look at the Bitcoin Core ZMQ possibilities. Using blocknotify (or walletnotify) seems very inefficient (the fork a new process each time).
ZMQ does allow to have a IPC push channel from Bitcoin-Core to your client application (from there you could emulate a websocket or something that talks to your web-clients).
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/zmq.md
ZMQ is fast and relatively reliable, although has currently no wallet features (you can't get notification on wallet events, only on "global" events [new tx, new block]).
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It's called -walletnotify.
-walletnotify=<cmd> Execute command when a wallet transaction changes (%s in cmd is replaced by TxID)
