not sure on the question, when you have your tx ID, then you can list the tx details with "bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction". I don't see if you want to search all transactions in blockchain (then you don't need a tx ID), or if you have a tx ID and search for details of it... – pebwindkraft – 2017-11-02T08:19:18.253

I implicitly implied getrawtransaction in my sub-optimal solution. It doesn't tell you which tx spends the txos of the transaction, but it tells you which block contains the transaction. – nopara73 – 2017-11-02T12:02:21.460

sure? I think it does not show the block. The "vin[]" structure contains a link to the previous tx ID, and the previous tx vout number. I wonder what you mean by txo of "the" transaction. I am not aware of an identifier for a transaction output. In a tx we have usually the vin[] structure, from where to move Satoshis, and a vout[] structure, where the Satoshis shall go to. Can you perhaps rephrase with vin, vout, or previous transaction, previous input? So we can better follow your idea? – pebwindkraft – 2017-11-02T14:43:22.043

1) Yes, it shows the block. 2) While there is no identifier for the transaction output, the spender transaction identifies it with a txid-index pair. My point is, if I have a transaction, then based on the vin[] one can track all transaction down backwards all the way to the coinbase, since vin[] has previous outputs (txid-index pairs). While the reverse does not work: from the vout[] I cannot go forward, since vout[] is amount-scriptPubKey pairs. – nopara73 – 2017-11-03T21:15:23.860

ah, ok, got it. I am not aware on an easy solution. You would have to take a vout[], decompose the scriptPubKey and it's address, search for this address in the blockchain (or a block explorer) within the time frame of the tx (or block height), take this tx number, take the vout[], decompose... This is tough work, basically your own block explorer. What comes to my mind is this: what happens when a bitcoin tumbler, a cross chain tx, or an exchange comes into the game - then the tracks with their attributes loose their meaning... but certainly a funny experience... – pebwindkraft – 2017-11-03T22:28:43.260

1have you solved this puzzle? – lzl124631x – 2018-10-04T06:58:40.130

You can't with Bitcoin Core. I hacked around by parsing the whole chain and build an index table for my specific purpose, (I don't need mempool, nor non-bech32 addresses) which makes things much faster (only a few weeks to build this intex table) so I doubt it'd be useful to you, but here's the code: https://github.com/zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi/blob/master/WalletWasabi/Services/IndexBuilderService.cs You can do it with libbitcoin though. At the end of this presentation I asked questions regarding it and the presenter discusses the pros and cons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtB4YUneiEE