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It's not that difficult, just a bit annoying, to get the full Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains running locally and create a database-type access. You will proba

It's not that difficult, just a bit annoying, to get the full Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains running locally and create a database-type access. You will probably spend more time waiting for the download to finish than actually writing code. Bitcoin is a little harder than Ethereum because of the format changes and that might require using an older version (at least that's what I did).

Drdrdrq 8y ago
It's not trivial, that's for sure. And it is not download times that kill you, it is recomputing that is really slow, and you need it if you want full history. You really want to have SSDs. The export itself is quite fast though.
- zone411 8y ago
  Yes, an SSD is needed for sure. I just called it a download because that's when bitcoind/geth do their validation/sync.
  - Drdrdrq 8y ago
    Sure, just wanted to make it clear, since download of that 1TB (?) could be much faster.