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Title: How to parse blocks Post by: Radacoin on April 30, 2013, 12:52:01 PM Hi guys,
can you please point me to the right direction on how to parse blocks? Block format, what the blocks, chainstate, database directories are for. Stuff like that. P.S. I know how to read code (C, Java, ...). Title: Re: How to parse blocks Post by: nevafuse on April 30, 2013, 01:51:26 PM If you can read C++, then you can probably just look at the bitcoin-qt source code...https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin)
Otherwise the wiki may give you a better summary of how the block is parsed...https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Blocks (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Blocks) https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind#Theory_of_Operation (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind#Theory_of_Operation) Title: Re: How to parse blocks Post by: DannyHamilton on April 30, 2013, 04:11:11 PM Here's a good resource for understanding the basic structure of a block:
http://james.lab6.com/2012/01/12/bitcoin-285-bytes-that-changed-the-world/ Title: Re: How to parse blocks Post by: kjj on April 30, 2013, 04:32:06 PM I haven't upgraded to 0.8 on my development box yet, so I haven't had a need to peer into the new block files. Are they the same format as the old ones, just smaller, or did they get changed?
Title: Re: How to parse blocks Post by: dserrano5 on April 30, 2013, 07:33:27 PM I haven't upgraded to 0.8 on my development box yet, so I haven't had a need to peer into the new block files. Are they the same format as the old ones, just smaller, or did they get changed? Same format. Title: Re: How to parse blocks Post by: Radacoin on May 02, 2013, 07:25:05 AM Thanks a lot guys.
Question: I thought the difficulty is also included in the blocks Reason I'm asking this: I wanna set up some charts for Alt-Coins. edit: Found it myself: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty#How_is_difficulty_stored_in_blocks.3F |