I'm running a private bitcoin network and would like to reset the bitcoin blockchain data back to the genesis block.
I've tried deleting all the files in ~/.bitcoin/blocks and ~/.bitcoin/wallets but bitcoin-cli -testnet getblockchaininfo still shows existing blocks.
$ bitcoin-cli -testnet getblockchaininfo
{
"chain": "test",
"blocks": 10,
"headers": 10,
"bestblockhash": "000000008668c111d16fd895919969836292a61919c6150a0f9a1dd5cc41aa55",
"difficulty": 1,
"mediantime": 1526598651,
"verificationprogress": 6.116528714283428e-07,
"initialblockdownload": false,
"chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000b000b000b",
"size_on_disk": 2573,
"pruned": false,
"softforks": [
{
"id": "bip34",
"version": 2,
"reject": {
"status": false
}
},
{
"id": "bip66",
"version": 3,
"reject": {
"status": false
}
},
{
"id": "bip65",
"version": 4,
"reject": {
"status": false
}
}
],
"bip9_softforks": {
"csv": {
"status": "defined",
"startTime": 1456790400,
"timeout": 1493596800,
"since": 0
},
"segwit": {
"status": "defined",
"startTime": 1462060800,
"timeout": 1493596800,
"since": 0
}
},
"warnings": "This is a pre-release test build - use at your own risk - do not use for mining or merchant applications"
}
