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!

rose16:56

It's possible i've already corrupted the db by force killing, as I force killed the last time I shutdown the node. After force kill it wouldn't start, but I mv'd 'flush_lock' and it started fine. Will note i'm not confident this is the rzn for the current issue (fetch_history returning a blank), since I was already encountering it before i forced killed the node.