Topic: Blockchain Address data (Read 918 times)

Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 11:57:53 AM

Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 12:31:37 PM

Nope, the wallet.dat contains the private/public key pairs that belong to your bitcoin addresses. The balance on those addresses is extracted from the blockchain, by incremently adding and substracting all transactions to and from said addresses.

Simply put the private key is THE single proof that an address belongs to you. Without providing it no funds can be sent from the address.

When I update the bitcoin-QT, it takes long to be updated because all the current blockchain info gets downloaded. Is not it ? Then where that data is stored ? Not it wallet.dat ?

Default is

Code:

win: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin
linux: ~/.bitcoin/
max: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

There is your wallet.dat and in the subdir "blocks" are all the blocks.

Not quite exactly. The blk*.dat files in the "blocks" subdirectory are the raw Bitcoin blocks, and the files in the "index" subdirectory is just the LevelDB database with the block metadata.

Well well well ...thanx for all your reply ...but I'm getting more confused. I have already downloaded the blockchain. So all address data should be in my machine. I just need a very simple thing now. I want the addresses which has more than n bitcoin. Cant I get it without connecting to the internet ?

If you start Bitcoin Core, with the already downloaded blockchain data, you can view the balance of the addresses in your wallet accurate up to the time of the last block that you have downloaded.
Without internet access, you cannot have totally up-to-date balance information.

Why addresses in my wallet ? I want the balance of everyone's wallet. I understand they'll be up to date till I last synced.

Wallet.dat is like your wallet. It shows your balance. Block files are the data files with everyone else's balances, a.k.a. the blockchain.

Exactly, so how do I retrieve the address balances in descending order from the block files ?

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Quote from: Injust on April 08, 2014, 12:29:02 PM

Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 12:27:36 PM

Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 11:57:53 AM

Quote from: Injust on April 08, 2014, 12:29:02 PM

Nope, the wallet.dat contains the private/public key pairs that belong to your bitcoin addresses. The balance on those addresses is extracted from the blockchain, by incremently adding and substracting all transactions to and from said addresses.

Simply put the private key is THE single proof that an address belongs to you. Without providing it no funds can be sent from the address.

When I update the bitcoin-QT, it takes long to be updated because all the current blockchain info gets downloaded. Is not it ? Then where that data is stored ? Not it wallet.dat ?

Default is

Code:

win: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin
linux: ~/.bitcoin/
max: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

There is your wallet.dat and in the subdir "blocks" are all the blocks.

Not quite exactly. The blk*.dat files in the "blocks" subdirectory are the raw Bitcoin blocks, and the files in the "index" subdirectory is just the LevelDB database with the block metadata.

Well well well ...thanx for all your reply ...but I'm getting more confused. I have already downloaded the blockchain. So all address data should be in my machine. I just need a very simple thing now. I want the addresses which has more than n bitcoin. Cant I get it without connecting to the internet ?

If you start Bitcoin Core, with the already downloaded blockchain data, you can view the balance of the addresses in your wallet accurate up to the time of the last block that you have downloaded.
Without internet access, you cannot have totally up-to-date balance information.

Why addresses in my wallet ? I want the balance of everyone's wallet. I understand they'll be up to date till I last synced.

Wallet.dat is like your wallet. It shows your balance. Block files are the data files with everyone else's balances, a.k.a. the blockchain.

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Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 12:27:36 PM

Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 11:57:53 AM

Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 12:27:36 PM

Nope, the wallet.dat contains the private/public key pairs that belong to your bitcoin addresses. The balance on those addresses is extracted from the blockchain, by incremently adding and substracting all transactions to and from said addresses.

Simply put the private key is THE single proof that an address belongs to you. Without providing it no funds can be sent from the address.

When I update the bitcoin-QT, it takes long to be updated because all the current blockchain info gets downloaded. Is not it ? Then where that data is stored ? Not it wallet.dat ?

Default is

Code:

win: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin
linux: ~/.bitcoin/
max: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

There is your wallet.dat and in the subdir "blocks" are all the blocks.

Not quite exactly. The blk*.dat files in the "blocks" subdirectory are the raw Bitcoin blocks, and the files in the "index" subdirectory is just the LevelDB database with the block metadata.

Well well well ...thanx for all your reply ...but I'm getting more confused. I have already downloaded the blockchain. So all address data should be in my machine. I just need a very simple thing now. I want the addresses which has more than n bitcoin. Cant I get it without connecting to the internet ?

If you start Bitcoin Core, with the already downloaded blockchain data, you can view the balance of the addresses in your wallet accurate up to the time of the last block that you have downloaded.
Without internet access, you cannot have totally up-to-date balance information.

Why addresses in my wallet ? I want the balance of everyone's wallet. I understand they'll be up to date till I last synced.

Injust

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Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 11:57:53 AM

Nope, the wallet.dat contains the private/public key pairs that belong to your bitcoin addresses. The balance on those addresses is extracted from the blockchain, by incremently adding and substracting all transactions to and from said addresses.

Simply put the private key is THE single proof that an address belongs to you. Without providing it no funds can be sent from the address.

When I update the bitcoin-QT, it takes long to be updated because all the current blockchain info gets downloaded. Is not it ? Then where that data is stored ? Not it wallet.dat ?

Default is

Code:

win: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin
linux: ~/.bitcoin/
max: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

There is your wallet.dat and in the subdir "blocks" are all the blocks.

Not quite exactly. The blk*.dat files in the "blocks" subdirectory are the raw Bitcoin blocks, and the files in the "index" subdirectory is just the LevelDB database with the block metadata.

Well well well ...thanx for all your reply ...but I'm getting more confused. I have already downloaded the blockchain. So all address data should be in my machine. I just need a very simple thing now. I want the addresses which has more than n bitcoin. Cant I get it without connecting to the internet ?

If you start Bitcoin Core, with the already downloaded blockchain data, you can view the balance of the addresses in your wallet accurate up to the time of the last block that you have downloaded.
Without internet access, you cannot have totally up-to-date balance information.

BitCoinDream

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Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 11:57:53 AM

Nope, the wallet.dat contains the private/public key pairs that belong to your bitcoin addresses. The balance on those addresses is extracted from the blockchain, by incremently adding and substracting all transactions to and from said addresses.

Simply put the private key is THE single proof that an address belongs to you. Without providing it no funds can be sent from the address.

When I update the bitcoin-QT, it takes long to be updated because all the current blockchain info gets downloaded. Is not it ? Then where that data is stored ? Not it wallet.dat ?

Default is

Code:

win: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin
linux: ~/.bitcoin/
max: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

There is your wallet.dat and in the subdir "blocks" are all the blocks.

Not quite exactly. The blk*.dat files in the "blocks" subdirectory are the raw Bitcoin blocks, and the files in the "index" subdirectory is just the LevelDB database with the block metadata.

Well well well ...thanx for all your reply ...but I'm getting more confused. I have already downloaded the blockchain. So all address data of the last time I synced should be in my machine. I just need a very simple thing now. I want the addresses which has more than n bitcoin. Cant I get it without connecting to the internet ?

Injust

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Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 11:57:53 AM

Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 11:57:53 AM

Nope, the wallet.dat contains the private/public key pairs that belong to your bitcoin addresses. The balance on those addresses is extracted from the blockchain, by incremently adding and substracting all transactions to and from said addresses.

Simply put the private key is THE single proof that an address belongs to you. Without providing it no funds can be sent from the address.

When I update the bitcoin-QT, it takes long to be updated because all the current blockchain info gets downloaded. Is not it ? Then where that data is stored ? Not it wallet.dat ?

Default is

Code:

win: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin
linux: ~/.bitcoin/
max: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

There is your wallet.dat and in the subdir "blocks" are all the blocks.

Not quite exactly. The blk*.dat files in the "blocks" subdirectory are the raw Bitcoin blocks, and the files in the "index" subdirectory is just the LevelDB database with the block metadata.

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Quote from: BitCoinDream on April 08, 2014, 11:57:53 AM

Nope, the wallet.dat contains the private/public key pairs that belong to your bitcoin addresses. The balance on those addresses is extracted from the blockchain, by incremently adding and substracting all transactions to and from said addresses.

Simply put the private key is THE single proof that an address belongs to you. Without providing it no funds can be sent from the address.

When I update the bitcoin-QT, it takes long to be updated because all the current blockchain info gets downloaded. Is not it ? Then where that data is stored ? Not it wallet.dat ?

check size of your bitcoin folder. it's all in it.
blockchain should be in folder "blocks" (buch of files blk*.dat)

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Nope, the wallet.dat contains the private/public key pairs that belong to your bitcoin addresses. The balance on those addresses is extracted from the blockchain, by incremently adding and substracting all transactions to and from said addresses.

Simply put the private key is THE single proof that an address belongs to you. Without providing it no funds can be sent from the address.

When I update the bitcoin-QT, it takes long to be updated because all the current blockchain info gets downloaded. Is not it ? Then where that data is stored ? Not it wallet.dat ?

Default is

Code:

win: %APPDATA%\Bitcoin
linux: ~/.bitcoin/
max: ~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory

There is your wallet.dat and in the subdir "blocks" are all the blocks.

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