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Re: Complete chainstate export from 2018-10-15 as torrent.
by
aplistir
on 16/10/2018, 22:04:28 UTC
So, is there any demand for regular exports of this data?

I worked some days on the first one i made at 2018-10-10, the latest one was from 2018-10-15, is there any demand for regular updated files?
I will usually put them just in a torrent because i don't want to set up a website for it or so....
Aynone? Wink

There is demand.
I am one of those, who is interested in downloading that data regularly. But only about once in 3-6 months.


it looks like a nice project, although I find it mostly "helpful" to the dreamers that think they can brute force wallets Smiley

Examining blockchain has other uses too. I used the data in studying "Satoshis mining  pattern" and things like that. Was quite interesting.

I also find it interesting to monitor really old bitcoin addresses for unusual traffic. Eg. Following old zombie coins coming back to life, which sometimes happen.

For those things I have separate files of old addresses that are easy to go through with a script comparing them to the "current" chainstate.
 
For my small needs it would be enough to get a smaller database of only the addresses containing more than 10 BTC (most really old addresses have more than 10BTC in them.)  Filesize of such a smaller database is only about 7Mb

Unfortunately I am currently in a country that has expensive internet and  wont be downloading much until things get better.  (I have to pay 1€/Gb for the net.) Otherwise I would have my own node and get the data myself.

But yes. there is demand, and thanks for the good work  Smiley