[Mining] Statistics about tari HOT 9 OPEN

@alex1307 @CjS77

I assume blockchain stores the information about mined coins by each node
should we assume that this information is available from backend and we can just request it?

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question pending about "all" and "yearly" filters
answer included in description

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There are 2 ways of getting "blocks mined" information:

• By querying UTXOs that are both coinbase UTXOs and are mined / confirmed. (This gets you history)
• By signing up for notifications. We currently only allow notifications via a shell script, but are looking into piping the events directly to the Tauri FE (This gets you live events)

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@alex1307 - We should add Tauri commands that make this a simple call. The FE should not be wrangling this data.
Bear in mind that the historical events call is somewhat expensive, so some discussion on the API would serve us well.

How often will you be requesting the full history?
Can we assume the FE caches previous calls, so we can return new changes since a given timestamp?

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since I don't think historical data ever changes in blockchain, it wouldn't hurt us to save the data somewhere

is it possible to make an API that would return results with daily resolution, called for specific windows, e.g. from=2022-04-01&to=2022-04-30?
FE could then save the results internally and make sure never to call for that window again (assuming the window is in the past)
and then when the user changes filters on the statistics view, and we don't have data to show to them, we would call the api for missing windows?

I don't know how the UTXO is queried and how expensive this API is, so all suggestions are welcome.

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@CjS77 @alex1307 do you have any new info on this?

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@alex1307 is still busy with this.

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ok, I'll put backend integration on hold and wait till we get any info on the interface (y)

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backend contract: GET method from=<Date>&to=<Date>&interval='monthly'|'yearly'|'all'

interval is optional, if not provided, data will be returned with values per day
if it is provided, it will combine data yearly -> values per month, all -> values per year

UPDATE:
frontend will listen on transaction events and store them in sqlite (after #46 implements it)

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