Reading Ethereum Geth database (LEVELDB)

Geth stores all blockchain data in LevelDB database that stores value in key-value pair. We normally do not need to access these data files because geth provides many utilities to interact with underlying data structure. But, just to understand how geth stores data, let's hack a little bit.

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06 Feb 2019

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