speed-up synchronization
as user
grab the latest snapshot of the Bitcoin blockchain
wget https://prunednode.today/latest.zip wget https://prunednode.today/latest.signed.txt cat latest.signed.txt sha256sum latest.zip # 5b8f662040ea993a0aec3fe9808b1aa4c38061df98974cd2be5449926a967a6d snapshot230103.zip
and deploy it before starting the daemon for the first time
mkdir ~/.bitcoin/ unzip -d ~/.bitcoin/ latest.zip rm -f latest.zip
as user
grab the latest and official protocol implementation
wget https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-22.0/bitcoin-22.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz wget https://bitcoin.org/laanwj-releases.asc md5sum bitcoin-22.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz # c263822f9d12a1f22f087e6858559bbe tar xzf bitcoin-22.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz cd bitcoin-22.0/ cp -ai bin/* /usr/local/bin/ cp -ai include/* /usr/local/include/ cp -ai lib/* /usr/local/lib/ cp -ai share/* /usr/local/share/ vi /etc/ld.so.conf /usr/local/lib ldconfig
as user
which bitcoind bitcoind -version screen -S bitcoind bitcoind -daemon -prune=550 pgrep -a bitcoind netstat -lntup | grep bitcoind watch du -sh ~/.bitcoin/blocks/ ~/.bitcoin/chainstate/
check its sync status
tail -F ~/.bitcoin/debug.log
and wait until you’ve reached progress=1
as user
stop
bitcoin-cli stop
status
bitcoin-cli getmemoryinfo bitcoin-cli getrpcinfo bitcoin-cli uptime bitcoin-cli getnetworkinfo bitcoin-cli getpeerinfo bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo bitcoin-cli getdifficulty
start
bitcoin-cli start
did we get the last block? are we truly up-to-date?
wget -q -O- https://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount; echo bitcoin-cli getblockcount
once your node is in sync, you might want to open the service to the world
vi /etc/nftables.conf
# bitcoind
iif $nic tcp dport 8333 accept
systemctl reload nftables.service
as for 8332/tcp, it is only enabled on localhost by default
https://bitcoin.org/en/download
https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node
https://blockgeeks.com/install-bitcoin-core/
https://en.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/Bitcoind
FW https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node
FW https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#what-is-a-full-node ==> 7GiB
FW https://bitcoin.org/en/posts/how-to-run-a-full-node
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/799/can-i-download-the-whole-block-chain-from-somewhere
https://blockchains.download/bitcoin/
https://github.com/Blockchains-Download/Bitcoin/releases
https://github.com/Blockchains-Download/Bitcoin
https://flo.sh/download-bitcoin-blockchain-bootstrap/#donation ==> not for free
https://prunednode.today/ ==> OK
[fw] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5177528.0
[fw] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0
https://www.linux.org/threads/installing-bitcoin-on-kali.29678/
https://blockgeeks.com/guides/how-to-install-blockchain-on-ubuntu/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/h06stx/can_you_predownload_the_whole_blockchain_before/
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/37815/how-to-know-if-bitcoind-synced
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/37496/how-can-i-run-bitcoind-in-pruning-mode
https://news.bitcoin.com/pros-and-cons-on-bitcoin-block-pruning/
https://coinguides.org/bitcoin-blockchain-pruning/
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/84918/bitcoind-daemon-error-connecting-to-the-server