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I wanted to scrape the whole ethereum blockchain in csv format. For this I reverse engineered and extended this code by vitalik: https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/uncle_regressions/block_datadump_generator.py

My version is here: https://github.com/ankitchiplunkar/analyzeEthereum

The problem is that I can download the blockchain till block 2,675,000 (EIP 155 hardfork) but after that I get the following error:

>>> tempTxDictionary = tempTx.to_dict() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/******/anaconda2/envs/pyethapp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ethereum/transactions.py", line 155, in to_dict d['sender'] = self.sender File "/home/******/anaconda2/envs/pyethapp/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ethereum/transactions.py", line 81, in sender raise InvalidTransaction("Invalid signature values!") ethereum.exceptions.InvalidTransaction: Invalid signature values!

On a closer look I can see that

tempTx.v = 37 or 38

The yellow paper says that "v" should be either 27 or 28 (equation 211). There is something different in how pyethereum/transactions.py is reading the block after EIP155.

What should I do to fix this?

PS: here is a simpler method to recreate the error

import rlp from ethereum.blocks import BlockHeader from ethereum.transactions import Transaction from ethereum import utils import csv gethDumpFileName = 'geth.dump' f = open(gethDumpFileName) pos = 3561286829 # position of block 2,675,002 f.seek(pos) prefix = f.read(10) _typ, _len, _pos = rlp.codec.consume_length_prefix(prefix, 0) blkdata = prefix + f.read(_pos + _len - 10) header = rlp.decode(rlp.descend(blkdata, 0), BlockHeader) headerDictionary = header.to_dict() i = 0 tempTx = rlp.decode(rlp.descend(blkdata, 1, i), Transaction) tempTx.v = tempTx.v -10 tempTxDictionary = tempTx.to_dict()

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  • The fact that the code can change like this and break your work is exactly why I chose to accomplish this same task by using the external interface to the node called the RPC. Have you looked the RPC? May 5, 2017 at 13:47
  • Yes you are right. I will use this (github.com/ConsenSys/ethjsonrpc) to scrape the block chain. May 10, 2017 at 8:35

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If i'm not misstaken, this is stated in EIP 155:

If block.number >= FORK_BLKNUM and v = CHAIN_ID * 2 + 35 or v = CHAIN_ID * 2 + 36, then when computing the hash of a transaction for purposes of signing or recovering, instead of hashing only the first six elements (ie. nonce, gasprice, startgas, to, value, data), hash nine elements, with v replaced by CHAIN_ID, r = 0 and s = 0. The currently existing signature scheme using v = 27 and v = 28 remains valid and continues to operate under the same rules as it does now.

So, if chainId = 1, then v becomes 37 or 38 which is the value you are seeing.

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