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!

rose19:38

Sorry to bother you guys, I've gotten setup with the latest libbitcoin-node but keep getting this error when running with a modified [database] path directory: "Database failed to start with error 'no such file or directory'". I'm trying to sync to an external HD that's mounted in /mnt/, so the config line looks like this: path = /mnt/hd/blockchain. It seems to be related to how paths are being resolved, since it works fine when I set a non-absolute path like "path = foo/blockchain". Any thoughts on how to resolve?