should be used for questions related to raw data
Any question related to raw, unprocessed data used by various programs.
Raw data is important for developers to test their system whether it conforms to the standards and produces the correct results.
Questions tagged [raw-data]
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What is TxIn's sequence?
I'm currently trying to generate the genesis block with my code and I've stumbled upon the TxIn sequence field that is not explained in the Protocol Specification wiki page, nor does it seem to appear in the block explorer. What is the way the value…
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How is the whitepaper decoded from the blockchain (Tx with ~1000x m of n multisig outputs)
The whitepaper is apparently encoded at 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713, which is an m of n multisig Tx with 947 outputs (just under the scriptsig limit of 20kB!).
Using the Blocktrail Python SDK, I get a list of the…
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Redeeming a raw transaction step by step example required
I am looking, specifically, for a step by step example transaction of sending Bitcoin which uses an actual transaction (How To Redeem A Basic Txn, from a few years back, does a great job of outlining most steps of sending a raw txn but does not use…
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Is there a historical timeseries of market depth & transactions available?
Has anyone stored the historical market depth & tick data from MtGox? Is it available publically? Would be useful if you were making a bot.
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Reliable, efficient way to parse the blockchain into a SQL database
I need to generate a SQL database (preferably SQLite3) of every transaction that has occurred in the blockchain. Is there an efficient way to do this using open-source software? I'm attempting to do it myself using a Haskell script that makes system…
Mike
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Anyone know of an API I can get historical price time series for multiple coins
I'd like to build some historical price charts, to use in my cryptocoin portfolio tracking app, using time series data (with HighCharts js).
Anyone know of an API that provides this price data, preferably for multiple coins (btc, ltc, eth, etc)?
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Where can I get all historical trades BTC price data?
Where can I get all historical trades BTC price data?
(There are some similar questions, but I am looking for high-resolution data, while the previous questions asked for lower resolution data, such as daily prices.)
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How to store data on the blockchain?
I am wondering if it is possible to give someone a bitcoin transaction ID and with that he can read some hidden data, like the blockchain.info notes on transactions, but for real, stored in the blockchain forever.
I had this idea but I don't think…
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How much out of order are the blocks stored in the blk*.dat files?
To be more exact: Given two blocks A and B, with heights A < B, but with positions in the blk file (we'll call them pA and pB) pA > pB.
What is the maximum amount of blocks that there could be stored in a blk*.dat file, between pB and pA?
For…
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How do I read peers.dat file to get a list of all peers seen or that bitcoind has connected to?
In version 0.8.6 of Bitcoin, I see that peers.dat file is a custom database format declared in db.h:317 (class CAddrDB) and defined in dh.cpp:485. Any ideas on how I could go about reading the data from peers.dat with PHP or Python? I'd like to keep…
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Is there a user-friendly tool for creating and signing raw transactions?
The title stands for itself.
The only tool for doing so I know of is the bitcoind daemon, but it is for from user-friendly.
A web-tool in JS would be ideal or a simple CLI tool with clear documentation.
Steven Roose
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UXTO DB structure
After update Bitcoin Core to version 0.15, chainstate database changed format of data.
Old prefix of key has been 0x63, now 0x43, and key/value are different
Where is the new format described, or can someone have work on…
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How to retrieve all addresses with non-zero balance and their balances?
I'm looking for a way to retrieve all address balances of addresses with a non-zero balance in the blockchain.
Is there a software tool that can calculate the balances in an accessible format?
Or perhaps I can download them somewhere?
With an…
Steven Roose
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Where can I download BTC historical ticker data?
Where can I download historical data for Bitcoin price for mtgox?
In this 2 Year old thread:
Where can I get historic data series of Bitcoin prices?
The described solution is as follows:
download this tool and use…
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Anyone know of an API for RSI and other indicators?
I am looking for Relative Strenght Index and other market indicators API's for cryptos. I don't think TradingView provides one but maybe you know one?
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