diff --git a/contrib/.gitignore b/contrib/.gitignore
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+*.json
diff --git a/contrib/getUtxos.js b/contrib/getUtxos.js
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+'use strict';
+// pulls some rando utxos that can be used for testing
+
+var levelup = require('levelup');
+var leveldown = require('leveldown');
+var Encoding = require('../lib/services/address/encoding');
+var fs = require('fs');
+var outputFile = '/tmp/large_amounts_utxos.json';
+var addresses = [];
+
+var dbLocation = process.argv[2];
+
+console.log('Using db location: ', dbLocation);
+
+var addressPrefix = new Buffer('0006', 'hex');
+
+var startAddress = new Array(35).join('0');
+var endAddress = new Array(35).join('f');
+
+var store = levelup(leveldown(dbLocation), {
+  keyEncoding: 'binary',
+  valueEncoding: 'binary'
+});
+
+var encoding = new Encoding(addressPrefix);
+
+var start = encoding.encodeUtxoIndexKey(startAddress);
+var end = encoding.encodeUtxoIndexKey(endAddress);
+var res = {};
+var limit = 18000000;
+var count = 0;
+
+var stream = store.createReadStream({
+  gte: start,
+  lte: end
+});
+
+
+stream.on('data', function(data) {
+  count++;
+  limit--;
+  if (limit <= 0) {
+    stream.emit('end');
+  }
+  var key = encoding.decodeUtxoIndexKey(data.key);
+  if (res[key.address] >= 1) {
+    res[key.address]++;
+  } else {
+    res[key.address] = 1;
+  }
+});
+
+stream.on('end', function() {
+  Object.keys(res).map(function(key) {
+    if (res[key] > 1000) {
+      addresses.push(key);
+    }
+  });
+  fs.writeFileSync(outputFile, JSON.stringify(addresses));
+  console.log('total utxo count: ', count);
+  console.log('done');
+});
+