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Title: Blockchain Research - Need TXT, CSV or similar
Post by: freedombit on April 01, 2014, 05:12:54 AM
I am interested in doing research on the blockchain, but want to work with raw data, and have a couple questions:

1) Is there a way to download the complete blockchain onto a local computer in a TXT, CSV or tab-delimited file? (I am not interested in mining, just looking at the data.)

2) Will most personal laptop computers have the processing power and memory capacity to run standard queries on the blockchain?

Thanks in advance for your help!

BTW - I think a website, app, or software tool that can allow the general public to do Blockchain research would be great to start creating more mass adoption. The more people understand, the more they are likely to trust the system. I looked around a bit, but didn't find anything.



Title: Re: Blockchain Research - Need TXT, CSV or similar
Post by: cp1 on April 01, 2014, 06:48:33 PM
There's 39 million transactions. That would be a large csv file.


Title: Re: Blockchain Research - Need TXT, CSV or similar
Post by: TwinWinNerD on April 02, 2014, 11:21:31 AM
There is a command in bitcoind to index ALL the transactions. Then you can query all the transactions into a database and dump them into csv.

But you can do the query directly in bitcoind also, works nice!


Title: Re: Blockchain Research - Need TXT, CSV or similar
Post by: freedombit on April 11, 2014, 05:56:09 AM
There is a command in bitcoind to index ALL the transactions. Then you can query all the transactions into a database and dump them into csv.

But you can do the query directly in bitcoind also, works nice!

Thank you!


Title: Re: Blockchain Research - Need TXT, CSV or similar
Post by: dexX7 on April 11, 2014, 10:53:43 AM
20 GB compressed, about 112 GB uncompressed database:

http://dumps.webbtc.com/bitcoin/

Infos:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zf0tu/blockchain_analysis_basics/


Title: Re: Blockchain Research - Need TXT, CSV or similar
Post by: freedombit on April 12, 2014, 05:28:39 AM
Awesome. Thank you.