brk/crates/brk_parser/README.md

BRK Parser

A very fast and simple Rust library which reads raw block files (blkXXXXX.dat) from Bitcoin Core node and creates an iterator over all the requested blocks in sequential order (0, 1, 2, ...).

The element returned by the iterator is a tuple which includes the:

• Height: Height
• Block: Block (from bitcoin-rust)
• Block's Hash: BlockHash (also from bitcoin-rust)

Example

src/main.rs

Requirements

Even though it reads blkXXXXX.dat files, it needs bitcoind to run with the RPC server to filter out block forks.

Peak memory should be around 500MB.

Comparaison

	biter	bitcoin-explorer (deprecated)	blocks_iterator
Runs with bitcoind	Yes ✅	No ❌	Yes ✅
Runs without bitcoind	No ❌	Yes ✅	Yes ✅
0..=855_000	4mn 10s	4mn 45s	> 2h
800_000..=855_000	0mn 52s (4mn 10s if first run)	0mn 55s	> 2h

Benchmarked on a Macbook Pro M3 Pro