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Heartbleed: When will bitcoind 0.9.1 be released for Ubuntu 12.04? [duplicate]

I am running bitcoind 9.0 on a server (without GUI) with Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) When I enter in my shell bitcoind getinfo I get { "version" : 90000, "protocolversion" : 70002, ...
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Cannot allocate memory

EXCEPTION: 11DbException Db::get: Cannot allocate memory bitcoin in ProcessMessage() Downloaded 250k blocks, now it won't run anymore i'm running ubuntu 12.04, I have 20GB HD and 1gb ram. any way to ...
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Setup cgminer on Ubuntu 12.04 (im getting libudev.so.1 not found error)

I have read and read and read over the internet but noone seems to have problem like this. Im trying to setup cgminer on my Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) desktop but i failed. Downloaded cgminer from url ...
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Help - Running R9 290x graphics card headless in Linux

Running Ubuntu 13.10. When I hook up the card to a monitor through HDMI, cgminer detects the card. When I unplug the HDMI cable from the monitor, the system throws a blank screen. I can ssh in from ...
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Is wallet.dat transferable between OS?

Am I able to transfer my wallet.dat from Ubuntu QT to Windows QT by backing up the file and pasting in the other operating system?
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cannot get bitcoind working on ubuntu 12.04

i was previously using ubuntu 10.04 and i tried to install bitcoind. this failed and i upgraded to ubuntu 12.04. when i run bitcoind it still doesn't work: $ bitcoind ************************ ...
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Can the Bitcoin client be used without any incoming ports being opened?

I am running bitcoind on the latest Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzel on amazon's EC2 network. The security group I have attached to the box only allows port 22 so I can login via ssh. How is bitcoind ...
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Miners dogpiling on one device

I've built a mining rig running Ubuntu 11.10 with 3 Radeon 6850 GPUs. When I run ./poclbm.py without any arguments, it returns the list of available devices as... [0] Barts [1] Barts [2] Barts [3] ...
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Bitcoin Core Unbuntu Custom Data Directory Does not Navigate to Secondary Internal Hard Drive

I have a laptop computer with 2 solid state internal 1000 GB hard drives. I have the operating system installed on drive 1 and I have the secondary drive formatted (ext4 file system), partitioned and ...
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Automatically restarting bitcoind five minutes after reboot on ubuntu

How can I run bitcoind automatically five minutes after restart? So far I have crontab set up to reboot my computer every morning at 4AM (it runs into issues when it stays on for more than a couple ...
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Electrum + Trezor - Rename address labels only allows one label to be defined

Using Electrum 2.3.3 on Ubuntu 14.04.2 with a Trezor (firmware 1.3.3), I'm having trouble with the account labels. When I rename an account, it displays the new label. However, when I rename another ...
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upgrading bitcoind (-qt) from 0.9.3 to 0.10

I have version 0.9.3 of bitcoind (-qt) on my Ubuntu server and I want to upgrade to 0.10.0, I just want to keep the blockchain and I have nothing in my wallet. from https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0....
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Error While making windows.exe using gitian build?

Actually I'm making a logos windows exe (logosd and logos-qt) following the release process, which is mention on below path on any coin you can find that path, I'm working logos LGS Coin that's why I'...
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How I make a portable version of Bitcoin for Ubuntu?

I want to create a bitcoin wallet executable file in Ubuntu with all its dependencies. So when use that file from some other system it will work perfectly. How I make a portable version of Bitcoin ...
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Multi GPU mining broken since upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04

This is related to scrypt mining. I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and after a bit of a hassle I have got almost everything working, except my mining. The issue seems to be a mismatch between OpenCL and ...
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How to securly move bitcoins from a wallet.dat file to a paper wallet? [duplicate]

I have an old wallet.dat file with a few Bitcoins. It is stored in an isolated computer that is not connected to the internet. I would like to get rid of the wallet.dat file, and move all the ...
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JSON-RPC "couldn't connect to server" via bitcoind CLI (curl works fine)

This is an odd one. I am running bitcoind 0.9.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 and have this behaviour: Doesn't work: $ bitcoind getinfo error: couldn't connect to server (timeout after 30s) Works fine: $ curl -...
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What compatibility issues might be expected when using the MegaCoin wallet on Wine? [closed]

Installing a wallet under linux is sometimes difficult without an up-to-date tutorial for users who are not familiar with linux. I found that it is pretty easy to install wine on Ubuntu 12.04.4 ...
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Dogecoin wallet console use full commands? [duplicate]

I am looking for a list with Dogecoin wallet commands that I can run into linux terminal. The interface seems useful, my pretty basic. For example, how can I check which is my wallet version? This ...
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Bitcoin Mining Through VPN

I'm fairly new to bitcoin and mining and am currently using a very restrictive ISP(port forwarding is not permitted). Therefore, it is not possible to connect to the bitcoin network(port 8333 is ...
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Using bfgminer on an Intel GPU on Ubuntu 12.04

I am currently running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on an i5 core and Ivy Bridge GPU. Using bfgminer I have successfully mined on my CPU, but my GPU is never recognized. I have installed OpenCl for Intel ...
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ATI GPU for mining with display attached to integrated graphics?

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and I'd like to attach my monitor to the onboard Intel graphic and have my GPU (ATI 67xx) for mining solely. So far I'm struggling with setting up the ATI GPU. Do I need to ...
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Help setting up phoenix miner on Ubuntu 12.04 - getting a seg fault

I'm roughly following this guide. The only big difference is I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and I used the latest version of the ATI Drivers. (I have the same cards as the guide, 2x HD5830's) When I try ...
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What causes the wallet functions to be disabled?

I have run bitcoind as a server on one host. On a second host, I have configured bitcoin-cli to interact with bitcoind. However, all wallet commands are now disabled with this new configuration. ...
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Ubuntu. (blockchain of version 0.9.3 compatible with 0.10.1?)

I have version 0.9.3 of bitcoind on my Ubuntu server and I want to upgrade to 0.10.1, I have nothing in my wallet. Does the blockchain 0.9.3 compatible with 0.10.1? Do I have anything to keep from ...
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Building Bitcoin Core on Linux/Ubuntu with Visual Studio Code

Does anyone developing Bitcoin Core use VSCode for compilation and debugging on Linux/Ubuntu? How can one configure VSCode to compile Bitcoin Core?
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How to Bitcoin Core daemon start automatically each time your reboot your computer.?

In the official document of bitcoin.org, they ask to use an init script instead of cron job, see the init scripts directory in Bitcoin Core’s source tree. But the link is not working Bitcoin Core’s ...
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My Bitcoin-QT directories are empty? (Ubuntu)

According to Bitcoin-QT (I am using the snap store version) my Datadir is /home/(username)/snap/bitcoin-core/common/.bitcoin and my Blocksdir is home/(username)/snap/bitcoin-core/common/.bitcoin/...
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Configure esplora to point to the bitcoind servers ip address - Part 2

Continuing on from this post: Configure esplora to point to the bitcoind servers ip address Trying to run cargo run --release --bin electrs -- -vvv --daemon-dir ~/.bitcoin, but it kept saying that ...
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free up space by deleting blocks

I've run into an issue where a bitcoin partition reached 100%. I created a new partition and try to move the whole Bitcoin directory over, but I seem to be handicapped by "no space left on device" ...
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How to update and older version of electrum on ubuntu 17?

I used the following commands to install electrum: sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-pyqt5 python3-pip sudo pip3 install https://download.electrum.org/3.0.5/Electrum-3.0.5.tar.gz For ...
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Bitcoind becomes non-responsive over JSON-RPC, have to manually restart all the time

I run bitcoind on AWS on Ubuntu. The machine has 4Gb of memory and free shows some of it remains free. Enough disk space too. Yet, I have to manually restart bitcoind quite often, because sending ...
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Neither cgminer nor BFGminer detect my Zeusminer Blizzard. (Ubuntu/Linux/Mint)

I'm having trouble getting my Zeusminer Blizzard running; neither cgminer nor BFGminer detect it. Here are the results of lsusb: Bus 001 Device 025: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. ...
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Two GPU's But Only One Will Mine In cgminer

I have a rig with two GPU's set up in it. Both are ASUS and one is a R9 280x and the other is a HD 7790. Both appear when I run the command: sudo aticonfig --lsa GPU 0: This is the HD 7790 GPU 1: ...
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Ubuntu command to download https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/bitcoin/+packages

What command do I use to get the latest bitcoin package under Ubuntu desktop 12.04 LTS? Also, what needs to be done to uninstall previous versions?
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Why is there currently no bitcoin package in Debian?

Why is the bitcoin package currently not in Debian? And how to help get it back in there? It'd make it a lot easier for more people to run a full node with this. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/...
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Configure esplora to point to the bitcoind servers ip address - Part 3

Continuing on from this post: Configure esplora to point to the bitcoind servers ip address - Part 2 Trying to run cargo run --release --bin electrs -- -vvv --daemon-dir ~/.bitcoin, but it kept ...
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How to move only "blocks" and "chainstate" folders on an external USB hard-drive while running Bitcoin Client on connected laptop with Ubuntu?

I have experience with secure-copy and secure-download but how do I move only the Bitcoin Client "blocks" and "chainstate" folders within the home directory of Ubuntu 18.04 to an external USB hard-...
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Does bitcoin 0.16.1 work with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Windows 10?

Does the bitcoin core for ubuntu work with windows 10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) command line? What issues are there if any since its install the ubuntu version under windows 10.
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How to solve error: Incorrect or no genesis block found. Wrong datadir for network?

I am making my own alt-coin, and I have mined the first genesis block hash(after some time), Merkle hash, nnonce and time. I am running on Ubuntu14.04. But when I run ./bitcoind I get this error ...
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Changing wallet password using double quotation marks turn out to be mysterious (Qtum Core)

I installed Qtum core in my Ubuntu 16.04 server and generated my wallet, and encrypted it. For the test purpose, I changed the password using the command like below. I typed below command to change ...
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Errors when running bitcoind at startup

Hi i've built bitcoin core 0.15 from source and am trying to get it to run at startup. I've used the bitcoind.conf file found in the bitcoin core repository https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/...
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Installing bitcoind as a dependency on travis-ci

I'm trying to install bitcoind as a dependency on travis-ci. Here is my .travis.yml file: language: scala scala: - 2.11.7 notifications: on_success: change on_failure: change before_install:...
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Ubuntu 14 LTS with SX tools installation issues

I'm trying to install the SX (http://SX.dyne.org) tools using Ubuntu 14 LTS following the installation instructions (http://sx.dyne.org/introduction.html#installation). I use wget to download the SH ...
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How vulnerable are offline users of bitaddress.org, who don’t use Ubuntu?

By not installing Ubuntu and not removing the hard drive, I suppose I am vulnerable when I open bitaddress.org offline and enter the 64 random hexadecimal characters I have generated without a ...
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Help running cgminer on Ubuntu 14.04 - waiting for USB hotplug devices, and other errors

I'm a total noob regarding bitcoin mining, I've installed cgminer using apt-get install but I can't get it to work. I start it with this command: ./cgminer -o stratum+tcp://www.albamine.net:3333 -u ...
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How much space needed to run Bitcoin daemon in amazon AMI?

How much space needed to run Bitcoin daemon in amazon AMI(ubuntu 12.04), I am currently having 20GB is that enough suppose i want to run multiple coin daemon say 6 coin daemons how much space(approx) ...
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Issue running cgminer from crontab

I trying to script the launch of cgminer based on a crontab. Using a crontab entry that fires up a bash shell script that launches cgminer. Running the script directly launches cgminer flawlessly. ...
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Low hashrate with cgminer 3.7.2 kalroth edition @ ubuntu 13.10 x64 @ R9 290 MSI GAMING EDITION @ 16 gb ram @ core i7 860

I'm trying with (below my sh file): export DISPLAY=:0 export GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT=100 export GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS=1 cd /home/x/cgminer-3.7.2-kalroth/ find *.bin -delete sleep 3 cgminer --scrypt -o ...
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Trouble compiling CopperLark on Ubuntu 12.04

I am having trouble compiling the Copperlark source on Ubuntu 12.04. I run the following command: Код: [Выделить] make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=- which fails on this error: /root/CopperLarkSrc/...
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