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Questions tagged [txindex]

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Why does Bitcoin Core support a transaction index but not an address index?

Bitcoin Core has the CLI option -txindex to maintain a full transaction index for RPC calls. That sounds useful for some use cases, like for a blockchain explorer. It seems perfectly logical then that there should also be an option to enable an…
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What is the current size of txindex folder when txindex=1 set?

Due to reputation limitations, I cannot ask for an update on this question: How much extra disk space does txindex=1 require? What is the current size of the txindex folder when txindex=1 is set in the bitcoin.conf file on a fully synced full…
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Non indexing bitcoin and output lookup

Using bitcoin's RPC and txindex=0 is it possible to tell the difference between an existing output being already spent and a non existing transaction output (or transaction id)? Looking at gettxout it's not enough as it would return empty data in…
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LoadBlockIndexDB: transaction index disabled

I'm trying to run bitcoind on a Raspberry Pi 3 but I'm stuck on an error. The raspberry has a Hdd for storage with a fully indexed blockchain that was synced on my laptop and than copied to the Hdd (txindex=1). When calling the log file I get this…
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Pruned Bitcoind Backend for LND with txindex enabled for version > v0.13.0

I'm looking to prune a bitcoind node that will be used by LND. https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/commit/410b30b9caaf59a78a29d8b924e14395b7daa59d From the LND commit recently by Kixunil. Note that since version 0.13 pruned nodes are…
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Does Bitcoin Core automatically reindex when you enable txindex on a synced full node?

I sync'd a Bitcoin node with Bitcoin Core Qt GUI. Hundreds of GB, naturally. I realized I needed txindex on for Lightning node stuff, so I changed the configuration file via the GUI to include txindex=1. I launched it on my Mac and then slapped…
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How do I get a full transaction index with Bitcoin Core?

How can I sync bitcoin full node so that I can access all details of transactions occurring on other nodes and other wallets also, like blockchain.info. I have synced a full node using below commands, but that's giving details of node wallet…
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How to use -txindex to enable blockchain transaction queries?

I am trying getting the raw of transaction. But I am getting the following error with following command and RPC call as well. bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction ad844933ceb9cf990fd75ebd2f6731527885e31d1a4c9ea292db235bcd64bdbe Error No such mempool…
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Txindex=1: how to recognise the blockchain with this option?

This might be a dumb question: I started the Bitcoin daemon for an initial blockchain download. It immediately started downloading, I edited the Bitcoin.conf file with txindex=1. Stopped and restarted the daemon. How can I be sure the blockchain has…
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How do you set txindex to 1?

I am using bitcoin.rpc.RawProxy to connect to bitcoind and scrape the data. But I am getting an error when I gettransaction and I have to reindex the blockchain. Thus I am wondering how I set the txindex to 1 so I can reindex and continue.
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How can I get the whole info for a transaction whose outputs are spent?

I use the RPC method getrawtransaction to get the whole info for a transaction. But if I understood right, it works only for transactions which contain at least one unspent output. How can I get the whole info as provided by getrawtransaction for a…
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Does 'listunspent' work for any address is `txindex=1`?

The listunspent Bitcoin Core RPC method by default works only for addresses loaded in the wallet. Does it work for any address if the node has full index (txindex=1)? (Technically it could I think, but since this is a 'wallet' RPC, it may be…
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Can I use the Bitcoin Core CLI to learn the block height at which a transaction was mined?

I am interested in figuring out at what height a transaction was mined, but I cannot find the right command to extract this information. Perhaps it's not possible? My Bitcoin Core was not involved as sender or receiver of the transaction.
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Transfer Bitcoin Core data into a database

I've downloaded Bitcoin data locally via the Bitcoin Core app install and sync. I'm looking to build a system though which users can query their account balance. I'm thinking of building a simple web interface to accept a wallet address and in the…
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Get raw transaction from tx id without txindex=1

I'm trying to get the raw transaction hex string of a transaction that I know the id from. I would like to do that without using txindex=1. As I assume the transaction is unspent (and confirmed) I'm doing the following steps: bitcoin-cli gettxout…
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