<p>Where can I download the bitcoin blockchain to do some offline analysis.</p>
<p>edit: Ideally I'd like to download <code>.txt </code> (or another file extension, e.g. <code>.dat</code>, as long as the contents are unencoded and human readable) files which I could parse and analyse myself.</p>
<p>edit edit: I've removed a couple of (bad) examples as it confused people.</p>

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2021-08-25T16:49:07.120Z
You’re not going to find a text representation because that would be many tens of terabytes. The Bitcoin client downloads all the data “unencoded”, you just have to parse it yourself.
Claris
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2021-08-25T17:26:20.223Z
Cool, so is the bitcoin client you mention the [bitcoin core](https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/). I would not want to run a node, but I would like to update the data occasionally. If using bitcoin core would have access to the data and would I be able to parse it myself? I appreciate that it is a large amount of data.
almair
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2021-08-25T18:15:45.527Z
Yes, you can just run the client whenever you want to update the downloaded blocks. Look at tools like bitcoin-iterate which can parse all 500 gigabytes in about half an hour on a fast machine.
Claris
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Where can I download the bitcoin blockchain to do offline analysis?
almair
# Where can I download the bitcoin blockchain to do offline analysis?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-08-25)

Where can I download the bitcoin blockchain to do some offline analysis.

edit: Ideally I'd like to download `.txt`  (or another file extension, e.g. `.dat`, as long as the contents are unencoded and human readable) files which I could parse and analyse myself.

edit edit: I've removed a couple of (bad) examples as it confused people.

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, blockchain, chainanalysis

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You’re not going to find a text representation because that would be many tens of terabytes. The Bitcoin client downloads all the data “unencoded”, you just have to parse it yourself.  
> **username_0**: Cool, so is the bitcoin client you mention the [bitcoin core](https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/). I would not want to run a node, but I would like to update the data occasionally. If using bitcoin core would have access to the data and would I be able to parse it myself? I appreciate that it is a large amount of data.  
> **username_1**: Yes, you can just run the client whenever you want to update the downloaded blocks. Look at tools like bitcoin-iterate which can parse all 500 gigabytes in about half an hour on a fast machine.  

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