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Ubuntu Linux -- How do I start bitcoind as a service to run automatically?
There's an upstart script for Ubuntu in the Bitcoin Core source tree. Using that is the most correct way.
However, I just login as the user account I want to run Bitcoin Core daemon, start a ...
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What is the key differences between bitcoin-qt, bitcoin-cli, bitcoind, bitcoin rpc, and daemon?
All of those things are part of the same program, Bitcoin Core.
bitcoin-qt: The GUI version of Bitcoin Core. Most users will use this as it provides a nice Graphical User Interface that uses the Qt ...
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Bitcoin-cli how to get balance of a wallet on different node?
You cannot because Bitcoin Core does not store such information. Bitcoin Core does not store all information for all addresses, it only stores information for its own addresses and the lower level ...
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Is bitcoin-qt using bitcoind? or bitcoind is already built in the bitcoin-qt wallet?
Bitcoin-qt does not run bitcoind as a daemon. If you check the running processes after you launch bitcoin-qt, you will not see bitcoind being launched.
They both utilize the same "Bitcoin Core" ...
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Reserve the connection for local wallets
Bitcoin Core allows you to bind a separate listening socket with specific white listing properties. It has enhanced transaction relaying for use as a gateway and an immunity to banning for bad ...
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rpc json outside localhost
The listen option is for the P2P network connection, not the RPC service.
The option you want is rpcallowip=<ip>. To allow all IP addresses to connect to your node's RPC port, you can use ...
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How to resolve Bitcoin Daemon Warning of last 100 blocks have unexpected version message?
There is no need to resolve anything - some miners create arbitrary versions to attempt to speed up the mining process, as it gives them an additional field in the block block header to alter without ...
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How do you run one daemon for multiple users?
bitcoin-cli attempts to read the credentials from $HOME/.bitcoin. Since user2 will have a different home directory, bitcoin-cli will not able to find the credentials.
You can either symlink .bitcoin ...
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Bitcoind list all transactions from all accounts with listtransactions cli command
I would like to receive the transactions of all accounts on my daemon,
including the default account.
$ bitcoin-cli listtransactions "*" 9999999
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Litecoind answers "getnewaddress" RPC request with "Method not found"
The answer is to recompile the Litecoin daemon, making sure to call the configure script with the --enable-wallet option:
./configure --enable-wallet
From there, make and make-install will give you ...
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Is there an RPC command that checks for hardforks
There is no way to explicitly know that your node is on a minority-hashrate fork because to do so would mean awareness of all the new rules that makes the majority-hashrate fork valid, and then ...
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What is the key differences between bitcoin-qt, bitcoin-cli, bitcoind, bitcoin rpc, and daemon?
All belongs to same application (bitcoin-core) You can download it from bitcoin.org
bitcoin-qt
Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework for developers using C++. It's is used for UI in ...
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Ubuntu Linux -- How do I start bitcoind as a service to run automatically?
I finally end up with this setting for my raspberry
nano /etc/systemd/system/bitcoind.service
content of the file bitcoind.service
[Unit]
Description=bitcoin
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=...
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Bitcoin daemon sends "Empty reply from server" when in test net
I leave it here. Because i spent about two days on it :-o
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/10218
Authentication is not optional. Configuring it yourself is optional, but bitcoind never ...
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How can I run Bitcoind -server in "light mode"?
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/49273/13941
bitcoind now supports pruning (i.e. not keeping the entire blockchain).
However, this is different from SPV, since it still fully validates all ...
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Mastercoin API - what to use?
I think the most easy way to do this would be through Omniwallet API.
mastercoin-tools is deprecated and should not be used.
If you want the better security achieved by running a local instance, use ...
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How i can delete last block from blockchain? altcoin
You can't delete a block, just mine a new block on top of the previous block, creating a fork. Just reference the parent block as the parent of your new block, and if you mine more on top of your new ...
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Windows 7 : Unable to start bitcoin server using daemon in regtest : bitcoind -regtest -daemon
In the command line on windows you must type just bitcoind -regtest whitout -daemon
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Why do I have to update my node version if I am up to date?
Your node is not up to date: the latest release of Bitcoin Core is 0.19.1 which is a newer release than 0.19.0.1.
You appear to be using a RaspiBolt. The RaspiBolt project's FAQ addresses your ...
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Why does bitcoin sync inventories?
Pre 0.10 versions synced inventories as it was the way they composed a list of blocks that they then recursively request from the peer. It provides multiple benefits over just asking for all blocks ...
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Bitcoind live wallet backup (by copying wallet.dat)
In some cases, bitcoin-qt/bitcoind may regularly (and even gratuitously) flush the wallet [1], so it's possible that wallet.dat could be in an inconsistent state at the time you make your own copy.
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How can I have Bitcoind.exe use the core data from Bitcoin-QT on my D drive. Using Windows 10
There are a few ways to do it one of which is modifying the shortcut as you've mentioned.
The easiest way is to create a bitcoin.conf file in %APPDATA%\Bitcoin. That's the default directory bitcoind ...
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Security implications of bitcoin.conf location
I do not see the "necessary" relevance to bitcoin here. File access security is better discussed in unix relevant stackexchange. Still I'd like to share my view with the little bit of bitcoind ...
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Bitcoin-cli how to get balance of a wallet on different node?
You can download a database dump from blockchair.com at https://gz.blockchair.com/bitcoin/addresses/
The database is updated daily and is contains a balance of satoshis for every address on the ...
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Help needed with upgrading bitcoin ABC
Yes, you need to upgrade. You have version 0.16.2, and the 32MB block support was added in 0.17.0. The latest release version is 0.17.2.
Your apt-get commands will only work if you originally ...
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Bitcoin cash testnet core crash
Since it works without your wallet file, it is likely that your wallet has some sort of corruption which is causing Bitcoin ABC to error on start. Try starting Bitcoin ABC with -salvagewallet and see ...
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Bitcoin-cli - error: couldn't connect to server: unknown (code -1)
Did you confirm that your user trying ti use bitcoin-cli has ownership permissions on the .bitcoin directory? That was what gave me trouble. To fix, I ran:
sudo chown username:username /directory/...
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Automatically restart bitcoind on crash
I'm running a RaspberryPi Bitcoin node. Since I discovered that the node had sometimes crashed due to overload, I put an hourly starting command into crontab:
@hourly <completePath>/bitcoind -...
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Fixing libtool for -rpath problems
That's not an error.
Continue by running make, optimally with -j set to the number of cores you have on your system.
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How to tell when bitcoin has really stopped running
On linux:
ps aux | grep bitcoind
Or even:
watch ps aux | grep bitcoind
But to answer your question slightly differently I'd suggest keeping existing bitcoind running. Then your new node add a ...
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