May 6, 2021

Dear Eric, I am looking into the symmetry of accessing the persistence (safe_chain class), symmetrically between offline mode and online mode. I’m totally clear that I can access the chain ‘live’ from full_node.chain(). How should I access the persistence as a safe_chain instance, when I am not intending to go online? (My guesses: Either I can somehow start a full_node, but without running full_node.start() or full_node.run(), this way somehow getting the full_node.chain() but without starting any peer to peer work, OR i should separately create some kind of libbitcoin-database instance for this...) And then second question, how do I switch between that online and offline mode?