Bitcoin full node and query server

Sep 2, 2025

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Hello, I'm running libbitcoin-explorer with a local libbitcoin-server. Both libbitcoin-explorer and libbitcoin-server are version 3.8.0. I'm able to fetch the block height 848141 (using bx fetch-height), so it seems the explorer and server are connected correctly and the server is reading from the blockchain datastore. However, when I run "bx fetch-history 134HfD2fdeBTohfx8YANxEpsYXsv5UoWyz" it returns: transfers "", and it should return more detailed info per https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-explorer/wiki/bx-fetch-history. Do I need to re-index the blockchain datastore? Perhaps there is some indexing missing? The entire datastore directory is 918GB, so I suspect it is fully synced and indexed already... but I'm probably missing something. Any help is appreciated!

neillm16:43

When I run that command against my own server (mainnet1.libbitcoin.net), I see this:

$ ./bx fetch-history 134HfD2fdeBTohfx8YANxEpsYXsv5UoWyz
transfers
{
    transfer
    {
        received
        {
            hash 97e06e49dfdd26c5a904670971ccf4c7fe7d9da53cb379bf9b442fc9427080b3
            height 247683
            index 1
        }
        spent
        {
            hash b7354b8b9cc9a856aedaa349cffa289ae9917771f4e06b2386636b3c073df1b5
            height 247742
            index 0
        }
        value 100000
    }
}

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