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Radacoin

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Thanks a lot guys.

Question: I thought the difficulty is also included in the blocks ~~- but it seems not~~.

~~How can I calculate (historic) difficulty?~~

Reason I'm asking this: I wanna set up some charts for Alt-Coins.

edit: Found it myself: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty#How_is_difficulty_stored_in_blocks.3F

dserrano5

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Quote from: kjj on April 30, 2013, 11:32:06 AM

I haven't upgraded to 0.8 on my development box yet, so I haven't had a need to peer into the new block files. Are they the same format as the old ones, just smaller, or did they get changed?

Same format.

kjj

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I haven't upgraded to 0.8 on my development box yet, so I haven't had a need to peer into the new block files. Are they the same format as the old ones, just smaller, or did they get changed?

DannyHamilton

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Here's a good resource for understanding the basic structure of a block:

http://james.lab6.com/2012/01/12/bitcoin-285-bytes-that-changed-the-world/

nevafuse

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If you can read C++, then you can probably just look at the bitcoin-qt source code...https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

Otherwise the wiki may give you a better summary of how the block is parsed...https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Blocks

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind#Theory_of_Operation

Radacoin

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Hi guys,

can you please point me to the right direction on how to parse blocks? Block format, what the blocks, chainstate, database directories are for. Stuff like that.

P.S.
I know how to read code (C, Java, ...).

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