What's the diffrence between these two bitcoin.conf format?

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server=1
listen=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=X
rpcpassword=Q
rpcallowip=localhost
rpcport=Y

And

server=1
rpcuser=X
rpcpassword=Q
rpcallowip=localhost
rpcport=Y

I am a litlle confused, can these two conf file accepts solomining? And what's the difference between them?

Thank you for help

Tony Sanak · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-16 01:08:16Z

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Answering the second part of your question:

server=1 tells Bitcoin-Qt and bitcoind to accept JSON-RPC commands, so you can query it

listen=1 is a bitcoin listening mode

daemon=1 starts bitcoind in the background as a daemon

rpcuser=X and rpcpassword=Q is the user/password for rpc access

rpcallowip=localhost means you can access it through rpc only from your localhost IP machine, add external IP if you want to access it from outside

rpcport=Y is the rpc port to access it (localhost:Y), for bitcoind the default is 8332

AFAIK the second config won't work for rpc, you haven't specified rpcuser, and you will see the bitcoind output in the console (not a daemon).

answered Jul 16, 2020 at 1:08

Tony Sanak

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Thank you Tony, But about listen=1 is a bitcoin listening mode litening to what? To the rpc call?
– Hamita
Commented Jul 16, 2020 at 16:59
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It means, that your node accepts an incoming connection and uploads old blocks to other peers (when they are in the initial block download phase and later when propagation happens). Listening to rpc calls is defined by server=1.
– Tony Sanak
Commented Jul 16, 2020 at 19:38

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