Gavin Andresen - 2011-01-03 16:22:55

Mirroring all of the information that bitcoin keeps about transactions inside your bitcoin-oriented web app is probably not the right way to go.

It violates the zero/one/infinity principle, and you're likely to have subtle bugs if (when?) the two copies get out of sync.

See:  http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/doku.php?id=accounts   for "best practices".  If you're willing to share what kind of thing your web app is doing, I'd be happy to brainstorm other approches, too...