Getting nonces

[fevir]

Hi all,

Each block in the blockchain contains a nonce - a seemingly insignificant, yet important number for each block.

Assuming I'm running a full node and have a copy of the blockchain, what would be a (preferably easy) way to get a list (just plain text will do) of all nonces from the Genesis block up untill now?

Thanks!

Cheers,
Fevir

[achow101]

You can create a script which goes through each block and uses the getblockhash and getblock rpc commands. You can retrieve the json data for each block which includes a field for the nonce. Then just extract the nonce and save that to a file.

[fevir]

Thanks! I'll see if I can create such a script.