This project is an indexer for Bitcoin and Bitcoin forks. It takes advantage of the P2P protocol in Bitcoin to fetch blocks and transactions.
The indexer need a couple of information to be specified in a config.toml file : database info and one peer to the network. To create a config file copy config.example.toml into config.toml.
config.toml example
[database]
host = "localhost"
user = "postgres"
password = "wow"
dbname = "blockchains"
[peer]
ip = "127.0.0.1"
port = 8333
To find a peer we can do a nslookup on the dns seed of the network we wnat to index. For the port it is the p2p port used by this specific network (e.g bitcoin mainnet is 8333 and fordogecoin testnet it is 44556).
In the contrib/ folder there is a docker-compose.yml file to start any indexer. First we need to create a config file matching the network we want to index (e.g config.dogecoin-mainnet.toml).
Then run the docker compose command.
$ docker compose up postgres indexer_dogecoin_mainnet
or to start them all
$ docker compose up
