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Bitcoin Mempool Statistics

Bitcoin Mempool Statistics

This is the code to create the mempool statistics for bitcoin that are online at https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/

Installation: Part 1 - Logging

You need to be running a bitcoin full node. It can be a pruned node or an archival node. I assume you have already set it up. You also need to support RPC to this node. Add rpcuser/rpcpassword to bitcoin.conf to enable this.

I recommend to create a new user mempool. Checkout this repository into his home directory:

sudo -H -u mempool bash
cd $HOME
git clone https://github.com/jhoenicke/mempool

Edit mempool.sh to adapt paths as necessary, especially the path to bitcoin-cli. Add a bitcoin.conf with rpcuser/rpcpassword settings to /home/mempool/.bitcoin, to be able to use bitcoin-cli. You can test your setup by running

bitcoin-cli getinfo

Install sqlite3 and create a new empty database. Then you can test your configuration by running mempool.sh

sudo apt install sqlite3
cd mempool
sqlite3 mempool.s3db < mempool-create.sql
./mempool.sh

You are almost ready now. Check that everything works. There should be a file mempool.log containing one line of statistics. There should be newly created files in /dev/shm/mempool that contain the dynamic date the webserver should serve. If everything looks fine add the following crontab entry (using crontab -e):

* * * * * /home/mempool/mempool/mempool.sh 

Installation: Part 2 - Web service

Install a web server of your choice. For refreshing/zooming you need php and php-sqlite. Then link/copy the web subdirectory to the web root. Finally link to the dynamic js files in /dev/shm/mempool.

cd $HOME/mempool/web/queue
sudo ln -s $HOME/mempool/web/* /var/www/html
ln -s /dev/shm/mempool/*.js $HOME/mempool/web/queue/