I don't want to manually type every Block Address Hash PKscript , sigscript in a text file because it would take years and would need to be updated constantly.
⌛️How do I create a Dump File of the blockchain ?
I need all Blockchain data in text format is basically what I am saying and then I need to have that shown preferably in a gui program in which I can use Ctrl F to find specific transactions.
Creating a dump file will quickin the process on our project.
Thank you for replying,
Alice,
ZeroPointSpectra,
Madhatter
The bitcoin blocks are just compressed dump of the block-chain;
Most of us just 'roll our own' python scripts to take the compressed binary from the blocks and convert into human readable hex;
There are 100's of block-parsers, but most are not maintained and fail, so they die at block 10010001, or some non-sense, that's why its best to write your own one page python script to generate hex;
Do you want to dump the entire 500gb blocks? Do you realize converting them to ascii hex will be 10's of terrabytes of human readable data and very hard to manage on computers??
Most of the time with our small python code we do stuff like
for all transactions in all blocks ..
find address of transaction, if value of transaction > 1000 satoshi then print address
The above two lines will generate 400M lines of text of hex addresses, which you can then feed into another algo;
If you post a request for an example of a small one page python routine to do the above I will post; Keep it Simple Stupid is the law of the land;
On github its common to see 10M code files of block-chain parsers that don't even run 10% of the blocks before they die
First step is to define what you want from the blocks, back in the day a common was to dump the 'pristine', e.g. dump all BTC addresses that were mined +50 BTC, but never spent, that's the kind of DUMP that people do in the real world; Once you have that list, then if your a hacker of BTC blockchain, you know what addresses to look for.
