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Title: Intraday network Data
Post by: Enomisss on August 03, 2019, 08:58:57 AM
Hi guys, i'm a Finance Student from Italy, my name is Simone
I'm doing some research on Bitcoin network, and i have some question for which i hope some of you can help me:
The question is: how can find or in other words how i can access to data of bitcoin network such as hashrate, num of transactions, mempool size, num of unique address ecc.
I know that there are lot of database for that, but i found only daily updated data.
What i need to know is if there is a way to access to this data for a higher frequency such that minutes, or hour; and if Is there a way to access to that kind of data directly from the network without pass trough data providers?

Hoping i explain well, thanks in advance for any help.
MS


Title: Re: Intraday network Data
Post by: BrewMaster on August 03, 2019, 09:25:37 AM
data of bitcoin network such as hashrate, num of transactions, mempool size, num of unique address ecc.

your easiest option is to use some block explorers that already list the information you are looking for. blockchain.com and blockchair.com are two of them that have lots of these things. for example if you look in blockchain.com's charts you find a lot of options.
there is also https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/ which shows memory pool
and https://statoshi.info/ which has a lot of charts.
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-hashrate.html has interesting hashrate charts

and if Is there a way to access to that kind of data directly from the network without pass trough data providers?
for that you'll have to do what they did. run a full node, download the whole blockchain, have high connection count and analyze all the data that you receive.


Title: Re: Intraday network Data
Post by: fillippone on August 05, 2019, 09:32:35 PM
Bitcoin is a decentralised network.
Don't trust, verify.
So why rely on other's data , when you can produce every data you need by yourself.
As other have suggested just fire a full node with statoshi and you'll be able to produce all the data you need just by yourself.

https://statoshi.info/


Just take care that all information based on the blockchain are unique and exactly the same other node will se.
Other information , like mempool size, or any other mempool related information, or transaction "first seen" time are based on what YOUR node see. These information are different from every provider (Block streams feed their block explorer with different nodes in different part of the world).

Buon lavoro!


Title: Re: Intraday network Data
Post by: Enomisss on August 12, 2019, 04:01:00 PM
thanks guys,  ;) your answer are been very helpful for me. This is my thinking too, but the problem is that i'm not familiar with the blockchain and mining, and so i was not able to run a full node for example.
I think that reading trough the forum i can find some helpful guide on how to do it.
Soon i can i ll try to do it, and extract such informations.


Title: Re: Intraday network Data
Post by: fillippone on August 12, 2019, 04:15:47 PM
thanks guys,  ;) your answer are been very helpful for me. This is my thinking too, but the problem is that i'm not familiar with the blockchain and mining, and so i was not able to run a full node for example.
I think that reading trough the forum i can find some helpful guide on how to do it.
Soon i can i ll try to do it, and extract such informations.


If you are from Italy, you can find my guide in my signature on how to setup and run a full node with a simple hardware.
Or you can just use a spare PC to setup and run a simple Statoshi node.