I want to download the entire bitcoin transaction history and store it in a database at my end to perform certain analysis. How do I get from the blk*.dat files to a useful format?
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possible duplicate of How can one download the initial Blockchain data files securely? – Highly Irregular Mar 07 '13 at 07:18
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@HighlyIrregular Edited to not be a straight duplicate. – Nick ODell Mar 07 '13 at 07:54
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1possible duplicate of How can I read information from the blockchain? – Stephen Gornick Mar 07 '13 at 08:43
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I want the transaction information is some kind of usable format. How do I make sense of this ?? – user1754257 Mar 07 '13 at 08:52
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I want which public key(s) sent how much bitcion to which keys at what time for all transactions starting from the inception till now.. – user1754257 Mar 07 '13 at 09:08
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@user1754257 Then clarify your question. You've got an edit button for a reason. – Nick ODell Mar 07 '13 at 21:58
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I wanted to do a similar thing to put all the transactions in the database (it was PostgreSQL for me, but you can use anything). After some research ended up using bitcoin abe and it worked great for me. Be patient though, it does take a long time - was several days in my case.
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