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How would I ever know if my solo miner found a block?
When your mining software (e.g., cgminer, minerd) successfully mines a new block or discovers a share, it should display some information indicating your mining success. You would typically see ...
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Not enough disk space to do initial download for bitcoin core
If you do not want to configure more storage but still want to run a node you may choose to use pruning.
Pruning as documented in the default bitcoind bitcoin.conf:
Reduce storage requirements by ...
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Not enough disk space to do initial download for bitcoin core
Is there a better way to run bitcoin core on a laptop with limited disk space?
If you install the latest version of GUI Bitcoin-qt, as of this time version 25.0., on the welcome screen it asks if you ...
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Not enough disk space to do initial download for bitcoin core
Can I put the datadir on an external hard drive?
Yes
How would that work?
By configuration. Either directly by using a text editor on 'bitcoin.conf' or by using the menus in the GUI (bitcoin-qt)
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401 Unauthorized when try to connect to bitcoin-core using curl
I know how it sounds, but it works now, without any intervention from my side
The only idea I can think of is that the daemon reloads config not immediately but after some time (I did not try full ...
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Bitcoind.service can't start on mounted drive
After a lot of research, I was finally able to make this works. Here were the issues:
The bitcoind program was installed by the root user; therefore,
/usr/local/bin/bitcoind is a file owned by the ...
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Gitian building not working
Gitian has a couple of different virtualization modes, each with their own quirks and issues. It appears that you are using LXC, which in my experience, no longer works.
You could try the same ...
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Why timestamp mandatory on importdescriptors?
As in every open-source project, the answer to "Why isn't feature X implemented?" is simply that nobody has added it. Maybe whoever worked on it didn't consider the option, maybe they found ...
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Bitcoin core: How to get transactions data having block?
how can I get the input/output address using e.g. the same bitcoin-cli
The general answer is:
To get addresses relating to inputs you need to fetch the locking scripts (scriptPubkey) from the ...
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Is golang's implementation of Bitcoin core sufficiently relevant to the original?
Is it relevant enough?
It depends what your goal is. As an educational tool for someone more familiar with Go, sure. For running in production say with a Lightning node managing hundreds of millions ...
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Blockchain pruned node still downloading old blocks
So, after starting the node with pruned configuration, we see that old blocks are still being downloaded because in a matter of 20 minutes we had more than 10 gigabytes used space.
Pruning does not ...
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Missing transactions from full node
The full node you are running likely has the standard mempool size (300 MB) and default settings. At the moment (see e.g. https://mempool.space/), transactions with a fee less than 5.88 sat/vB are ...
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Missing transactions from full node
Bitcoin Core uses a 300 MiB limit for its mempool data structure by default. If enough transactions get submitted to the network, this limit will be reached and Bitcoin Core will start dropping ...
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How to install bitcoin-cli on MacOS?
This will install bitcoind and bitcoin-cli:
$ brew install bitcoin
This is how you install Bitcoin Core (MacOS app with UI):
$ brew install --cask bitcoin-core
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Why is my sync slow even with a dbcache of 16000?
Although you've set a dbcache large enough to contain the entire UTXO set, at some point you've restarted. This means that the cache will begin empty and so UTXOs will need to be fetched from the ...
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How to identify bad peers that are connected to my node
Protocol & data deserialization
When your software is connecting to a peer, you are both sending raw data that respects a specific structure. It is the Bitcoin P2P protocol. So if a peer is ...
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