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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: Chrilleee on January 21, 2014, 05:39:36 PM



Title: Getting difficulty of a coin without having to download the entire blockchain?
Post by: Chrilleee on January 21, 2014, 05:39:36 PM
I hope this forum is the correct for my question, else I hope it's being moved to its correct one.

I would like to know if there's any way in which I can check the difficulty (and hashrate if possible) of some coin, without having to download the entire blockchain for that coin? That is, I'm only interested in the last block of the coin, that holds the current status of the coin.
Is there any known way to do this? I don't count looking at some pool's status page or online blockchain explorers as being a solution.


Title: Re: Getting difficulty of a coin without having to download the entire blockchain?
Post by: ChekaZ on January 21, 2014, 05:40:52 PM
Blockexplorer.


Title: Re: Getting difficulty of a coin without having to download the entire blockchain?
Post by: Chrilleee on January 22, 2014, 09:27:35 AM
Blockexplorer.

Found this Abe 0.7: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=22785.0
But I don't think that is what I'm looking for, as it needs the blockchain to be downloaded:
Quote from: GitHub
...  You will need a copy of the block files (blk0001.dat, blk0002.dat, etc. in your Bitcoin directory or its blocks/ subdirectory). ...