Ask HN: Can Bitcoin ledger be synced from GCP Bigquery dataset

Posted by itprofessional4 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:39AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am trying to setup a bitcoin full node on GCP but instead of syncing the ledger from bitcoin network using bitcoind which takes substantial time, I was wondering if there is a workaround to sync it from the Bitcoin data set available on GCP and accessible via BigQuery.

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Re:Ask HN: Can Bitcoin ledger be synced from GCP Bigquery da... by alcio on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:50AM (#23005352)

Using a full node, you not only sync the history, but also validate it. In recent days, on a modern machine with a good internet connection, it takes less than 12hrs to achieve this.

If you don't care about validating the history, I guess using BigQuery would work but I don't know how to achieve it.

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Re:Ask HN: Can Bitcoin ledger be synced from GCP Bigquery da... by cft on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:36AM (#23005981)

Bitcoin core uses leveldb to store blockchain data. Short of writing your own node, you would have to import bigquery data into leveldb.

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Re:Ask HN: Can Bitcoin ledger be synced from GCP Bigquery da... by whb07 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:40AM (#23006006)

just buy a raspberry pi 4 and a 500 gb - 1 tb flash card and set it up. Seems like a much more fun and cheaper endeavor!

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