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Caesure: a python bitcoin server/node

name

It's a pun on the words Caesar and Seizure. "Render unto Caesar..."

requirements

  1. shrapnel
  2. Cython
  3. secp256k1 (optional)

install

$ sudo python setup.py install
$ mkdir /usr/local/caesure/

Make sure the /usr/local/caesure directory is writable by the user that will be running caesure.

To avoid a long startup time, fetch a copy of the blockchain and convert it. [see below for instructions]

status

Handles incoming & outgoing connections, does parallel blockchain download. Caches metadata for quick startup. Many-worlds ledger implementation nearly finished.

See TODO.txt for more detail on status.

design

Since this uses shrapnel, it leaves out Windows users, but still allows bsd, darwin/osx, & linux.

The target platform is a well-connected machine (i.e., in a colocation facility) with fast disk and lots of memory. [As of October 2014, the process size is approximately 3GB. I would recommend at least 6GB of memory, the more the merrier.]

Note: you should be using a 64-bit system. Although it should be possible to run most of the system in 32-bit mode, consider it an unsupported configuration, because of the memory requirements.

Performance-sensitive code is written in Cython, including packet codec, b58, hexify, etc...

The script engine is mostly done. Needs some work on failing constraints like stack size, sig count, etc.

The current plan is to have a pruning ledger in memory (with journalling-style checkpoints to disk). Without a ledger, this code is not a full forwarding node, and thus by default the 'relay' flag in the outgoing version packet is set to False.

See TODO.txt & ledger.py for details.

usage

$ scripts/caesure -h::

usage: caesure [-h] [-o OUTGOING] [-i INCOMING] [-s IP:PORT] [-c IP:PORT] [-m]
               [-a] [-r] [-u USER:PASS] [-v]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTGOING, --outgoing OUTGOING
                        total number of outgoing connections
  -i INCOMING, --incoming INCOMING
                        total number of incoming connections
  -s IP:PORT, --serve IP:PORT
                        serve on this address
  -c IP:PORT, --connect IP:PORT
                        connect to this address
  -m, --monitor         run the monitor on /tmp/caesure.bd
  -a, --webui           run the web interface at http://localhost:8380/admin/
  -r, --relay           [hack] set relay=True
  -u USER:PASS, --user USER:PASS
                        webui user (will listen on INADDR_ANY)
  -v, --verbose         show verbose packet flow

Connecting to a local bitcoind::

$ scripts/caesure -o 1 -i 0 -c 127.0.0.1:8333 -m -a

Start up a node with 20 outgoing connections and 0 incoming (i.e., no server)::

$ scripts/caesure -o 20 -i 0 -c -m -a

Start up a node with 100 outgoing connections and 100 incoming::

$ scripts/caesure -o 100 -i 100 -m -a -s 1.2.3.4:8333

Once up and running, caesure will start downloading the block chain from the network if necessary.

You can monitor its progress via the web ui:

http://127.0.0.1:8380/admin/status

Or via the back door / monitor:

[from another terminal]

$ telnet /tmp/caesure.bd

telnet to a unix socket is bsd only, on linux try:

$ nc -CU /tmp/caesure.bd

you'll get a python prompt:

>>> db = G.block_db
>>> len(db.blocks)
10123
>>> 
>>> len(db.blocks)
18539
>>> 
>>> len(db.blocks)
66029
>>> 
[...]

bootstrap.dat

I recommend that you download the blockchain bootstrap.dat file (via bit torrent), and use that as your starting point. The format of the bootstrap.dat file is nearly identical to caesure's native format, and can be converted in-place::

$ python scripts/convert_bootstrap.py bootstrap.dat
$ mv bootstrap.dat /usr/local/caesure/blocks.bin

You should be able to find the torrent here: https://bitcoin.org/bin/blockchain/

testnet

Testnet support is currently missing, it's not hard to add it back in if needed.

logging

Caesure uses a binary (fast, machine-readable) logging system, using the ASN1 capabilities of shrapnel. In utils/catlog.py is a tool that can be used for decoding/processing the logfile. It can be combined with "tail -f" to tail the logs, e.g.::

$ cat /usr/local/caesure/log.asn1 | catlog | less
$ tail -f /usr/local/caesure/log.asn1 | catlog | less

fun with the block chain

Rather than running a client, you can just start up python and play with the block database. The block database is written in append-only mode, so it's safe to open it read-only from another process, even while the client is running.

$ python -i caesure/block_db.py::

  >>> db = BlockDB()
reading metadata...done 5.62 secs (last_block=302294)
reading block headers...starting at pos 19149083102...(302294)done. scanned 17 blocks in 0.00 secs
>>> db.last_block
302310
>>> db.by_num(_)
<__main__.BLOCK object at 0x800f090d0>
>>> b = _
>>> b.transactions[1]
<__main__.TX object at 0x800e30fa0>
>>> tx = _
>>> tx.dump()
hash: e8751d4130d77cdc3746dc6cce32e00f57b1abf9cef84104a5764cefc933f38b
inputs: 2
  0 0c8c368d00fe30e30426d3759bbb0c0244242d53eb1935ab6ac9e6b7e39e5356:1 ['0x3045022100f0a0e4c2bfd414e8232ae98a4ba564d0040338e8a94e563d6ab599900e2c93dd022054b68c96da5ba2e68bc46a9b65cd230028aa66caa83d85be9e7d155838a44c7e01', '0x04bb8234d9fbc26ad8e9c328805f8ff77cc3857ac3875ad56c74203b93fffe33a868cb870841128c0ce43838929be16da0a369c683c3d2e7fc395e4a21ae6faf30'] 4294967295
  1 540cff744f98351c7c8459b85a52ca6ab3a6c2b9cdcaf8aec1e4ad2c58cae2df:0 ['0x304502203aca08e12b347d6056f88367434d6ac9fb097eb0d6b677e7987c2122f8d8989402210088cf9838a9ccbd0878b44c381aedb1b8c4e84deeda04964aa4e53e8d9e086c2801', '0x0455d41ff12fbe28a8112d3027f100a80fe16a877b69e9fc66062777ece4d2327c9b7607f056afd4b59014b42daab284e09b64f92fff498e068bcee41752c5e26d'] 4294967295
2 outputs
  0 39.52026906 ['OP_DUP', 'OP_HASH160', '0x67a5b321d47682682249a4baa1cf53de4f6d2701', 'OP_EQUALVERIFY', 'OP_CHECKSIG']
  1 47.87863094 ['OP_DUP', 'OP_HASH160', '0x96a852c7f06db0d93e4bfac314b979976d1095cc', 'OP_EQUALVERIFY', 'OP_CHECKSIG']
lock_time: 0
>>> tx.inputs[0]
((<0c8c368d00fe30e30426d3759bbb0c0244242d53eb1935ab6ac9e6b7e39e5356>, 1), 'H0E\x02!\x00\xf0\xa0\xe4\xc2\xbf\xd4\x14\xe8#*\xe9\x8aK\xa5d\xd0\x04\x038\xe8\xa9NV=j\xb5\x99\x90\x0e,\x93\xdd\x02 T\xb6\x8c\x96\xda[\xa2\xe6\x8b\xc4j\x9be\xcd#\x00(\xaaf\xca\xa8=\x85\xbe\x9e}\x15X8\xa4L~\x01A\x04\xbb\x824\xd9\xfb\xc2j\xd8\xe9\xc3(\x80_\x8f\xf7|\xc3\x85z\xc3\x87Z\xd5lt ;\x93\xff\xfe3\xa8h\xcb\x87\x08A\x12\x8c\x0c\xe488\x92\x9b\xe1m\xa0\xa3i\xc6\x83\xc3\xd2\xe7\xfc9^J!\xaeo\xaf0', 4294967295)
>>> parse_script (_[1])
[(0, '0E\x02!\x00\xf0\xa0\xe4\xc2\xbf\xd4\x14\xe8#*\xe9\x8aK\xa5d\xd0\x04\x038\xe8\xa9NV=j\xb5\x99\x90\x0e,\x93\xdd\x02 T\xb6\x8c\x96\xda[\xa2\xe6\x8b\xc4j\x9be\xcd#\x00(\xaaf\xca\xa8=\x85\xbe\x9e}\x15X8\xa4L~\x01'), (0, '\x04\xbb\x824\xd9\xfb\xc2j\xd8\xe9\xc3(\x80_\x8f\xf7|\xc3\x85z\xc3\x87Z\xd5lt ;\x93\xff\xfe3\xa8h\xcb\x87\x08A\x12\x8c\x0c\xe488\x92\x9b\xe1m\xa0\xa3i\xc6\x83\xc3\xd2\xe7\xfc9^J!\xaeo\xaf0')]
>>> pprint_script (_)
['0x3045022100f0a0e4c2bfd414e8232ae98a4ba564d0040338e8a94e563d6ab599900e2c93dd022054b68c96da5ba2e68bc46a9b65cd230028aa66caa83d85be9e7d155838a44c7e01', '0x04bb8234d9fbc26ad8e9c328805f8ff77cc3857ac3875ad56c74203b93fffe33a868cb870841128c0ce43838929be16da0a369c683c3d2e7fc395e4a21ae6faf30']
>>> tx.outputs[0]
(3952026906L, 'v\xa9\x14g\xa5\xb3!\xd4v\x82h"I\xa4\xba\xa1\xcfS\xdeOm\'\x01\x88\xac')
>>> parse_script (_[1])
[(2, 118), (2, 169), (0, 'g\xa5\xb3!\xd4v\x82h"I\xa4\xba\xa1\xcfS\xdeOm\'\x01'), (2, 136), (3, 172, 'v\xa9\x14g\xa5\xb3!\xd4v\x82h"I\xa4\xba\xa1\xcfS\xdeOm\'\x01\x88\xac')]
>>> pprint_script (_)
['OP_DUP', 'OP_HASH160', '0x67a5b321d47682682249a4baa1cf53de4f6d2701', 'OP_EQUALVERIFY', 'OP_CHECKSIG']
>>> 

fetch a block by number::

>>> db.num_block[135000]
set([<00000000000001bf349e3e8195f95a080ea17efe012cf7f512664829f9d3772d>])

>>> db.by_num(135000)
<__main__.BLOCK object at 0x800f090d0>

dump all its transactions::

>>> for tx in b.transactions:
...     tx.dump()
... 

Note: you can also do all the above via the back door of a running caesure instance.

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