I'm running Abe to create a blockchain SQL database, so I don't want the Bitcoin client to touch my copy of the blockchain at the moment. But I would like to query the blockchain with the bitcoind client. Is there a way to run bitcoind without connecting to other nodes?
2 Answers
I see two approaches:
- Use
--connect <hostname>
with the hostname set to something that doesn't exist. - Unplug from the network.
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5
Now there is an extra option to disable automatic connections at startup:
- CLI option
-noconnect
- Configuration option:
noconnect=1