Got my full node. How do I now leverage it and start analyzing data? \ stacker news ~bitcoin

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Do anyone have a guide on how to work with your own full node and do analysis? Like how to extract blocks, transactions etc.

Any great blogs containing examples etc?

bitcoin-cli help

^ this is your friend. Use it to explore the many features of bitcoin-core.

Note: you'll need txindex=1 listed in your bitcoin.conf file if you want to have a queryable index of all transactions available.

bitcoin.stackexchange.com might be of interest to you, you'll likely find some relevant examples and explanations there.

As a suggestion- you should now try setting up a lightning node! That enables a lot of bitcoin functionality.

Thanks, I will dive right into it! I already set up a lightning node as well. It’s truly an amazing technology.

Nice job!

Try some of the commands in bitcoind