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Title: Open Bootstrap.dat with VB.NET Post by: Zetler on April 21, 2014, 08:26:08 AM I downloaded the torrent with the entire blockchain and tried to open bootstrap.dat.
With its 17GB it is obviously too large for most text editors, so I programmed a VB.NET app to do this. Assuming encoding ISO-8859-1, I get this rather confusing line: "" ;z{z,>gvaÈQ2:K ^J)_I +| M EThe Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks * CAgUH'gq0\֨(9 yb aI?L8U \8M WLp+k _ o"" Assuming UTF8 does not make much more sense either: "���� ;���z{�z�,>gv�a��Q2:���K ^J)�_I�� �+| ����M�� EThe Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks���� �* CAg����UH'g�q0�\֨(�9 �yb�� aI��?L�8��U� ��\8M�� �W�Lp+k� _� ����� o�" Will it work if I change the encoding on this VB.NET code? System.Text.Encoding.UTF8 Title: Re: Open Bootstrap.dat with VB.NET Post by: Sukrim on April 22, 2014, 12:19:26 AM ...the file is in a binary format. The small piece of text you see is the genesis block by Satoshi, he embedded it on purpose to make sure he did not "premine" a chain in secret, since it would have been impossible to predict the headline of The Times in advance.
Title: Re: Open Bootstrap.dat with VB.NET Post by: danneu on April 22, 2014, 12:24:45 AM View it in hexadecimal for a better representation of the data.
If bootstrap.dat is a concatenation of what you find in block.dat files, then the data is a repeating sequence of:
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