Rust for Bitcoiners
  • About this repo
  • Why Current Rust resources are not enough?
  • Rust for Bitcoiners: Project-Oriented Course Outline
  • bitcoin_in_rust
    • Understanding bitcoin blockchain structure and storage capabilities
    • ch1
      • design
    • ch2
      • What is mining?
      • segwit
    • ch0
      • core_lib
        • hashing
  • bitdevs
    • playgrounds
  • Preface
    • archives
      • Introduction to the Clap crate
      • one_way_functions_examples
    • module_1
      • Immutable by default
      • How to represent numbers in Rust?
      • Introduction to Pointers
      • Arrays and Slices in rust
      • Function
      • Loops in Rust
      • Can you see why Rust is best fit for Bitcoin related applications?
    • module_2
      • Data Types
      • Enums
      • Method call syntax
      • Summary
    • module_3
      • What is Box?
      • 2_syntax_sugar_and_traits
      • Linked List in Rust
    • module_4
      • Developing Software for bitcoin
      • User Interaction in Rust through command line
      • Option and Result
      • Interacting with Bitcoin node using RPC
    • module_5
      • Traits
      • Parsing json data with serde
      • Overview of bitcoin crate
    • module_6
      • What is Rc?
      • When Unique mutable borrow rule is too restrictive
      • Deref Coercion
      • memory_model
        • 0_marker_traits
    • module_7
      • Multi-tasking Computers
      • How to cordinate multiple threads
      • Counting the total number of bitcoin transactions
  • rust-for-bitcoiners-2
    • office_hour_1
    • Course plan
    • assignments
      • Implement your own hashing algorithm
        • rust_hashing_code_detailed
      • a-5
      • Assignment 6
      • Bitcoin Protocol Development - Week 8: Connecting to P2P network
        • Tips on writing with rust
  • Course Outline
    • assignments
      • Bitcoin scripting Arithmetic using Rust
  • tutorials
    • Observing the fee trends using Rust
    • Privacy concerns of a Transaction and it's implication in Coinselection
    • Building_UTXO_Set
    • JSON_serialization_with_serde
    • de_se_rialization
      • Hex encoding
      • rust-bitcoin-crate
        • Private Key using bitcoin crate
  • c_and_rust
    • day1
      • day1
    • day2
      • Lifetimes in Rust
    • day3
      • Owning references vs Borrowing References
  • rust-for-bitcoiners-1
    • day1
      • Day1 plan
    • day2
      • Day2 plan
      • Summary of 2nd Lecture
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Counting the total number of bitcoin transactions

During the time of writing there was 855229 bitcoin blocks. If you have a bitcoin node running you can invoke the number threads equal to your hardware threads, each independently querying the bitcoin node to get the block data then count the number of transactions in it and update them in a shared counter.

A simple strategy could be, if you have 16 hardware threads then spawn 16 threads. Thread i should work on block heights whose remainder is i when divided by 16.

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