<p>I was looking to poke around about with some of the functions of <a href="https://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcointools" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcointools</a> but it claims to only work for earlier versions of bitcoin.  Am i just out of luck? or is there another solution?</p>

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2013-05-12T21:58:07.787Z
What functionality exactly do you want? Perhaps there are alternatives now.
Pieter Wuille
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2013-05-12T22:18:09.527Z
I think he just created those tools when the current version was 0.7.*. Chances are high that some or even most of them still work.
Steven Roose
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2013-05-13T00:30:59.590Z
You could always use [an earlier version](http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.2/)
Nick ODell
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2013-05-13T20:35:40.937Z
@NickODell RE: using older version see: http://bitcoin.org/may15.html
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2013-05-13T20:36:56.863Z
@PieterWuille i want to be able to search blocks. with bitcoin tools the command is: dbdump.py --search-blocks= ...
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2013-05-13T22:49:50.560Z
I think those tools were written around 0.3.2x. What do you mean by 'search blocks'?
Pieter Wuille
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2013-05-13T23:13:47.220Z
Print out all blocks involving transactions to the Bitcoin Faucet:
  dbdump.py --search-blocks=15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC
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I Want to be able to search the blockchain for all transactions for a certain public key.
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Bitcointools for v0.8+?
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# Bitcointools for v0.8+?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-05-12)

I was looking to poke around about with some of the functions of <https://github.com/gavinandresen/bitcointools> but it claims to only work for earlier versions of bitcoin. Am i just out of luck? or is there another solution?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: What functionality exactly do you want? Perhaps there are alternatives now.  
> **username_2**: I think he just created those tools when the current version was 0.7.*. Chances are high that some or even most of them still work.  
> **username_3**: You could always use [an earlier version](http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.7.2/)  
> **username_0**: @username_3 RE: using older version see: http://bitcoin.org/may15.html  
> **username_0**: @username_1 i want to be able to search blocks. with bitcoin tools the command is: dbdump.py --search-blocks= ...  
> **username_1**: I think those tools were written around 0.3.2x. What do you mean by 'search blocks'?  
> **username_0**: Print out all blocks involving transactions to the Bitcoin Faucet:   dbdump.py --search-blocks=15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC  
> **username_0**: I Want to be able to search the blockchain for all transactions for a certain public key.  

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