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I then started looking at the getblockstats RPC for some additional stats while I figure out a way around this problem. RPC in bitcoind expected to be released in Bitcoin Core 0.17. It gives several useful statistics for any given block. First, we derive some extra stats like "percentage of X that are Y" from the stats "X" and "Y" for the sake of convenience (the bitcoind patch doesn’t include these to give users the option to not have them and because they are trivial to compute). After exploring these options, I decided I could probably get most of the stats needed for the dashboard through RPCs from bitcoind. The main difference was that my code had the additional overhead of thousands of RPCs. Without any network connections, a full node doesn’t really have anything to do except respond to RPCs. Second, we turned off the network connection of the node using noconnect and nolisten. Using go-pg you can define a table schema based off of the definition of a type, and even add constraints like notnull by just tagging the relevant struct fields in Go. I chose go-pg as a Postgres driver basically at random. I looked at other databases people were using for Grafana dashboards and Postgres also seemed fairly commo
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Once the switch to Postgres was done, the dashboard graphs came up much faster in Grafana. There are also a ton of Go packages that implement Postgres drivers, which is helpful because I wrote the program for collecting stats in Go. I also patched the btcd RPC client for convenience to allow usage of getblockstats in the code I wrote. "unilaterally define crypto market structure" with headline-grabbing enforcement actions and vowed to "defend our platform vigorously," the company wrote in a post on its website on Monday. The rest of this post will be about my experience building the dashboard. I will say that InfluxDB worked just fine for queries at smaller time-scales. In the dashboard, we want to be able to show historic trends, which means making queries that might ask for years worth of data. More energy efficient algorithms, like proof-of-stake, have been in development over recent years. This code worked pretty well for smaller blocks, but when I tried using it to get the stats of a more recent block - which often have over a thousand transactions - I quickly noticed a problem. Both iterate through all transactions in a block, and for each transaction they collect stats while iterating through its inputs and outputs.