If bootstrap.dat is a concatenation of what you find in block.dat files, then the data is a repeating sequence of:
- Magic bytes: uint32 little endian
- Byte-count of the block: uint32 little endian
- Block: BlockCodec
Topic: Open Bootstrap.dat with VB.NET (Read 779 times)
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If bootstrap.dat is a concatenation of what you find in block.dat files, then the data is a repeating sequence of:
If bootstrap.dat is a concatenation of what you find in block.dat files, then the data is a repeating sequence of:
...the file is in a binary format. The small piece of text you see is the genesis block by Satoshi, he embedded it on purpose to make sure he did not "premine" a chain in secret, since it would have been impossible to predict the headline of The Times in advance.
I downloaded the torrent with the entire blockchain and tried to open bootstrap.dat.
With its 17GB it is obviously too large for most text editors, so I programmed a VB.NET app to do this.
Assuming encoding ISO-8859-1, I get this rather confusing line:
""ù¾´Ù ;£íýz{²zÇ,>gv�aÈÈŠQ2:Ÿ¸ªK ^J)«_Iÿÿ ¬+| ÿÿÿÿMÿÿ EThe Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banksÿÿÿÿ ò* CAgŠý°þUH'gñ¦q0·\Ö¨(à9 ¦ybàê aÞ¶Iö¼?Lï8ÄóUå ÁÞ\8M÷º �WŠLp+kñ _¬ ù¾´Ù× oâŒ""
Assuming UTF8 does not make much more sense either:
"���� ;���z{�z�,>gv�a�È�Q2:���K ^J)�_I�� �+| ����M�� EThe Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks���� �* CAg����UH'g�q0�\֨(�9 �yb�� aI��?L�8��U� ��\8M�� �W�Lp+k� _� ����� o�"
Will it work if I change the encoding on this VB.NET code?
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
With its 17GB it is obviously too large for most text editors, so I programmed a VB.NET app to do this.
Assuming encoding ISO-8859-1, I get this rather confusing line:
""ù¾´Ù ;£íýz{²zÇ,>gv�aÈÈŠQ2:Ÿ¸ªK ^J)«_Iÿÿ ¬+| ÿÿÿÿMÿÿ EThe Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banksÿÿÿÿ ò* CAgŠý°þUH'gñ¦q0·\Ö¨(à9 ¦ybàê aÞ¶Iö¼?Lï8ÄóUå ÁÞ\8M÷º �WŠLp+kñ _¬ ù¾´Ù× oâŒ""
Assuming UTF8 does not make much more sense either:
"���� ;���z{�z�,>gv�a�È�Q2:���K ^J)�_I�� �+| ����M�� EThe Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks���� �* CAg����UH'g�q0�\֨(�9 �yb�� aI��?L�8��U� ��\8M�� �W�Lp+k� _� ����� o�"
Will it work if I change the encoding on this VB.NET code?
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
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