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In this example we will ask the bitcoin network for the merkle block number 442603. In order to do this we need to send a filterload message and then we have to send a getdata message using the inventory type MSG_MERKLEBLOCK. The peers should reply with a merkleblock message for the requested bloc...

IMPORTANT This is just an example code, do not use in production. In order to download an header chain we have to send a getHeaders message. In this example we will require as much as possible headers after the 40000th one.The peer will respond with batch of 2000 headers so, we have to take the la...