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November 9, 2017, 8:49pm
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Sorry, what I meant when I said that it had been used before was that you’ve used it on both blockchain.info and coinb.in (unless I misnderstood).
Yes, unfortunately that is the case as far as I am aware. Check out the following couple of links and don’t hesitate to read through https://forums.counterparty.io/c/support/knowledge-base or make a thread in the support section if you need help setting that up.
It’s an optional start-up argument to Bitcoin executable (and/or configuration file) which adds another index of the blockchain to one’s Bitcoin setup.
Prior to Nov 9, 2014 txindex was the only blockchain index that Counterparty used. After that, in order to support multisig without relying on Web APIs (which were sometimes unreliable), an addrindex became necessary.
To recap:
txindex is an index of all transactions on the blockchain
addrindex is an index of all addresses on the blockchain
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# Bitcoin Core with ``addrindex`` Patch
Bitcoin Core is used by Counterparty to interact with the Bitcoin blockchain.
## Download
Depending on your OS and other preferences, download one of the binaries or source code from the link below. Optionally you can verify the file's checksum and author's PGP signature. These binaries are built deterministically.
[https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases)
## Installation
### Windows Installer
Unlike the Linux binaries, the Windows packages are installers. Uninstall any older version and download and install a 32-bit or 64-bit version. A 32-bit version consumes slightly less memory and is recommended for regular desktop use.
* 32-bit: `C:\Program Files (x86)\Bitcoin`
* 64-bit: `C:\Program Files\Bitcoin`
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