First of all hi, I am totally new to bitcoin development. I did do some mining back in the days but now I am doing something new, researching graph theory and then mainly time evolving graphs.
What is better then actually use a live stream of transactions that make the graph between wallets? Well nothing really.
So what I am asking here is some directions on the easiest way to get all bitcoin block and transaction data and stuff it into a database, possibly with live updates.
At first I though of using the bootstrap.dat file and just read it line by line. However any research in the file on google doesnt hit any developer resources (like file encoding & structure) and mainly shows resources telling its use is outdated.
Some of the options I see are:
- Just downloading a wallet/node, let it sync and read all data files (no idea how yet but it must be somewhere on disk).
- I saw there are some python libraries (
https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib) that I can use to run the RPC interface? (probably end up downloading all data through that?)
- I saw that there is a RPC Cli? Not sure how it works or if it fits my purpose or if it is mainly useful to keep my database up to date.
PS I am quite the experienced programmer but just don't know C++.
Thanks in advance!
