Location of Block-Database

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Austio (OP)

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July 15, 2011, 12:18:22 PM

Does anyone know the location of the Block database?

rail233

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July 15, 2011, 12:27:15 PM

It's P2P - therefore on the machine of everyone who runs the Bitcoin client.

Austio (OP)

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July 15, 2011, 01:08:43 PM

But your computer grabs those blocks and computes hashes on them...where is that stored

rail233

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July 15, 2011, 01:16:47 PM

It's stored in the same location as the wallet file. See below link for OS specific info.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

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