# Gavin Andresen
# 2010-08-30 22:23:34
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=231.msg11709#msg11709

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Neither of those are feasible@p{--} both App Engine and Javascript don't allow arbitrary socket connections, and a full bitcoin client needs to maintain a persistent connection to at least one other bitcoin client to get transaction messages. @p{par}

"Background servers capable of running for longer than 30s" is a feature on Google's @p{(link}roadmap@p{link)}, so maybe a 100% App Engine bitcoin client will be possible in the future. @p{brk}