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I currently use the importaddress wallet RPC on Bitcoin Core to rescan the transaction history related to an address, which I then query using listtransactions. The address import takes about a hour as it necessitates to rescan the whole block chain.

Is there a faster way to query the historical transactions associated with an address using Bitcoin Core?

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    Hey, i've edited your post to make it clearer. It contained two questions though so i only kept the first one. Could you open a new question to ask about the providers?
    – Antoine Poinsot
    Commented Oct 26, 2023 at 8:01

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You can rescan an address, or a bunch of addresses as defined by a range descriptor, using the scantxoutset RPC command. This will give you the current UTxOs paying to this (set of) address(es).

However, to rescan the transaction history you will have to use a watchonly wallet and perform a block chain rescan.

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  • Actually I need to preprocess block chain addresses and rescan all balanced bitcoin addresses so far such that user does not sense slow rescan process. How do it?
    – mjdimn
    Commented Oct 26, 2023 at 17:32
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The fraction of the problem solved for me by using Electrumx server. Electrumx rescan block files and indexed trx history information to the another database. It taken about 3 days. Therefore, I could get trx history and some other blockchain information using RPC call or opening web socket connections to the electrumx server.

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