Questions tagged [bitcoind]
This tag should be used for questions related to bitcoind, the command-line software for Bitcoin Core. It stands for "Bitcoin Daemon" where a daemon is any computer process which runs in the background ("service" in Windows terminology).
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How can I run bitcoind in pruning mode?
I read this comment:
You could consider running a pruning node, which is practically the
same as a full node (including security), except it throws away some
of the old history. Version 0.11 ...
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When should I use -reindex-chainstate and when -reindex
What is the difference between the options -reindex and -reindex-chainstate?
Is one of the options faster?
When should each option be used?
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How to safely shutdown bitcoind ?
Surprised this one hasn't been asked yet.
But how / what is the recommended best practice for shutting down bitcoind ?
Right now I'm manually killing the process with either sudo kill {pid} or if ...
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How to check if the block chain is up to date using bitcoind or json-rpc?
I read the full api method list and did not seem to find one.
I suppose there is no command specifically for that purpose, so what is the general way of doing this?
I would consider checking the ...
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What is the difference between the rpc port 8332 and port 8333?
What is the difference between the protocol and commands used on default ports 8332 and port 8333?
From what I gather, port 8332 is the RPC port, it's "sensitive", only allowed by local host by ...
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How to get an address's balance with the bitcoin client?
I want to see the balance of some address using bitcoind.
I set txindex=1 and did a -reindex to get all transactions indexed.
But still, there doesn't seem to be a way to get balances of an address. ...
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How does one attain 1,000+ connections like blockchain.info?
At this moment, blockchain.info has over 1,900 nodes connected to their bitcoin client.
I have been running an m1.small ubuntu 12.04 server and bitcoind for ~4 days straight now with no reboots. My ...
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In getrawtransaction, what is the vout integer in the vin list?
I'm working on trawling the bitcoin transactions coming in via getrawtransaction.
I haven't been able to find the neccessary documentation to describe the vout integer in the vin array:
{"txid"=>"...
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How to send bitcoin with a message attached
Is it possible to send bitcoins with an attached message with the transaction? If yes how to do it?
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What are the benefits of using btcd instead of bitcoind?
btcd 1.0 was released October 3, 2013. Why use it instead of bitcoind?
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How do I use walletnotify?
I have bitcoin daemon and I want to use the walletnotify option with a json-rpc call. Some of the examples use a "transaction.sh" file for walletnotify. What is it for?
What do I have to write in ...
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What's the difference between bitcoind and bitcoin-qt? Different commands?
This is a multi-part question, mainly do to contradictory information from different articles. It's got me all confused.
From my understanding, bitcoin-qt is just a GUI version of bitcoind - which ...
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How does Satoshi Dice's 'zero confirmations' transaction system work technically?
The popular bitcoin betting game Satoshi Dice sends back payments very fast, they don't wait for confirmations. The user sends money to Satoshi Dice and gets back winnings a couple of seconds later. ...
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How can I setup Bitcoin to be anonymous with Tor?
Bitcoin is billed as many things, among them its anonymity is highly regarded. While it is true that a transaction does not identify a user or wallet, recent news shows that there is the potential for ...
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How to know if bitcoind synced?
I installed the bitcoind and started it as daemon.
After 10hours I've tried "du -h"
ubuntu@ip-172-31-37-93:~/.bitcoin$ du -h
16K ./database
59M ./blocks/index
29G ./blocks
646M ./...
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How can I create a multi signature 2-of-3 transaction?
Can somebody help me with step-by-step list of how to create a multi signature 2-of-3 transaction?
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Ubuntu Linux -- How do I start bitcoind as a service to run automatically?
I've got a bunch of other services set up to boot automatically when my Ubuntu server starts (services like wicd-daemon and VPN), but I can't figure out how to set up the bitcoin daemon (bitcoind) to ...
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Is there a way to provide the walletpassphrase to bitcoind without exposing it on the cmdline?
With bitcoin 0.4.0 I have encrypted my wallet. Now when I would want to use bitcoind, the only way to send money is to provide my wallet decryption key on the cmd line first. I do not want to do that ...
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What is the use case of bitcoind ZeroMQ?
What is the use case of ZeroMQ implementation for bitcoind which will be merged into Bitcoin Core v0.12.0?
Block and Transaction Broadcasting With ZeroMQ
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/...
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How to check Bitcoind block chain download progress level
I have installed bitcoind on ubuntu server, and when I run screen -x for btc it says error -10 blockchain is downloading.
How do I know the progress level? currently 125600 blocks are downloaded, but ...
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When building bitcoind, I receive error "headers.h:36:20: fatal error: db_cxx.h: No such file or directory"
When building bitcoind on LinuxCoin (Debian based), I receive this error
"headers.h:36:20: fatal error: db_cxx.h: No such file or directory"
following the instructions at https://github.com/...
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bitcond v0.12.1. "UpdateTip: 6 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version"
I replaced my bitcoind from v0.11.2 to v0.12.1. Then I found "UpdateTip: 6 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version" in debug.log. This error occurs at new block generation. Can I ignore this? If ...
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How does the 'move' command work?
I have so far enjoyed the experience of learning about Bitcoins, mining, etc. I've setup a bitcoin daemon in hopes of developing a few apps and services in the near future. However, there is one thing ...
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rpc cookie authentication
I am getting a message when I start bitcoind :
Config options rpcuser and rpcpassword will soon be deprecated. Locally-run instances may remove rpcuser to use cookie-based auth, or may be replaced ...
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What are the minimal system requirements to run a full Bitcoin node?
I want to build a low profile system running as a full Bitcoin node, i.e. just running Bitcoin Core 0.9+ and pretty much nothing else. What is the minimal system (in terms of power consumption) that ...
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Check status of daemon?
I have started bitcoind on my linux box. How can I ask it what its status is? I assume it is downloading the blockchain and will continue to do so for hours or days. How can I find out where it is in ...
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What is rpcuser?
Can I just make up a value for rpcuser/rpcpassword in bitcoin.conf? Or do I have to set one up somewhere?
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Check which bitcoind version I am running
I have a version of bitcoind on my server and I can't remember which version it is.
How can I find out what version my bitcoind is ?
eg: ./bitcoind -version ..or such
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How to change the data directory with bitcoin-cli?
I am trying to change the data directory used by bitcoind and I am uder the impression that the command -datadir was removed as I can't find it with bitcoin-cli help, when I try to use it I get Too ...
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How to get all addresses - including the "change" addresses - from bitcoind?
I want to get all my addresses - including the auto-generated "change" addresses - from a running bitcoind somehow.
I haven't been able to do it in a simple way. "getaddressesbyaccount" and all the ...
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Where is the UTXO data stored?
When a new transaction is received it is added to the memory pool (after checking for conflicts). While mining, only the transactions which are in the pool are considered. What happens to the ...
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Why doc says importing private keys is so dangerous?
There are a lot of applications when someone would like to import a private key. However in wiki documentation they say it is very dangerous: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_import_private_keys
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All Bitcoin Public Keys with non-zero balance
I want to get a database or otherwise retrieve a set off all bitcoin public keys (not addresses) that have non zero balances.
What would be the easiest way to do that? Is there an API that could do ...
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How do I detect a double-spend?
As a vendor, how do you detect a double-spend? I'm happy to tell end-users that I'm proceeding with a transaction on 0 confirms, simply assuming everything is fine. I'm selling physical goods and so I ...
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Attacking Bitcoin with a supercomputer
The difficulty in Bitcoin is recalculated every 14 days. What if immediately after this difficulty adjustment someone targets Bitcoin nodes with a supercomputer and start creating new blocks?
Such ...
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Can Bitcoin-Qt be configured to trim the blockchain?
I run Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoin Armory on a laptop. I don't have the space to store the whole 20 GB (or however big it is now) blockchain.
I understand the need to run through the entire thing for ...
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How does bitcoind generate a new address if the wallet is encrypted
Suppose that my wallet is encrypted with a passphase and currently I have not provided bitcoind with the passphrase to access the private keys section of the wallet.
If I enter:
bitcoind ...
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How to store data on the blockchain?
I am wondering if it is possible to give someone a bitcoin transaction ID and with that he can read some hidden data, like the blockchain.info notes on transactions, but for real, stored in the ...
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How to generate SegWit address
How do I generate a SegWit address using Bitcoin Core CLI? Also will I be able to redeem those outputs and send them to a "legacy" address? If so, will this second transaction be accepted by older, ...
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How to add additional information to transaction?
I want to add some additional information to my specific transaction, so that I can send the additional information to blockchain.
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Running a store through Tor - what are the setup options available?
I am required to setup a store that will operate through Tor and accept Bitcoin payments only. I know I can run the standard client on the server and make it connect to peers only through Tor. However,...
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What is the bitcoind command to send all coins to another address?
I'm running bitcoind and I want to send all my coins to another address. What is the command for this?
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What is a step by step way to insert data in OP_RETURN?
I was following https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=453086.0
for creating a message in OP_RETURN. I am able to decode my raw transaction, but on signrawtransaction it gives
error: {"code":-22,"...
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What is the safest method managing a large number of receiving Bitcoin addresses?
Say I want to run a big project, where users can continually request new addresses to deposit Bitcoins in their online account. I suppose I will have to pre-generate thousands of Bitcoin key-pairs and ...
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How to get a bitcoin address's balance?
I know blockchain.info has an API: https://blockchain.info/q/addressbalance/134dV6U7gQ6wCFbfHUz2CMh6Dth72oGpgH
gets the bitcoin address's balance,but it's not open source and must connect to the ...
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Difference between bitcoin-tx, bitcoin-cli, and bitcoind?
I just pulled from the bitcoin github and compiled, and noticed that there were three executable generated:
bitcoin-cli bitcoin-tx bitcoind
I have not heard of bitcoin-tx before, what is it? What ...
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Is it possible to run more than one client instance on a machine?
Is it possible to run more than one Bitcoin client at the same time on the same machine? I tried to set different working ports, but it seems not to be working.
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Does the original Bitcoin client scale to contain millions of addresses?
We use the standard client in our business. The wallet already contains about 25k addresses. Will the wallet remain stable after the number reaches 100k or a million addresses? I was told that all ...
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How to findout the sender of a transaction
How do I find out which addresses are the inputs of a given transaction, given its transaction ID?
I know there is a way, as satoshidice.com uses this.
I would like to do this with own software and ...
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How do I configure the Bitcoin client for SSL on Windows?
Specifically I would like to connect to bitcoind from an outside system but I'm concerned about security. I've seen where others have said that SSL support is built into the Bitcoin client but how do ...
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