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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Getting difficulty of a coin without having to download the entire blockchain?
by
Chrilleee
on 22/01/2014, 09:27:35 UTC
Blockexplorer.

Found this Abe 0.7: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=22785.0
But I don't think that is what I'm looking for, as it needs the blockchain to be downloaded:
Quote from: GitHub
...  You will need a copy of the block files (blk0001.dat, blk0002.dat, etc. in your Bitcoin directory or its blocks/ subdirectory). ...