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To run bitcoin core testnet on Ubuntu 16.04
After having installed Bitcoin core on your machine, run the following command to start synchronising the testnet blockchain
bitcoind -testnet -daemon
The synchronisation starts as a daemon and runs ...
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How to compile Bitcoin-Qt as an .exe on Ubuntu?
.exe files are for windows only. Linux systems do not use the same file extension or file type as windows. I assume you just want to create a Linux binary that can be used on all systems without ...
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Configure esplora to point to the bitcoind servers ip address
esplora is just the web ui frontend, you also need to setup the (forked) electrs backend for indexing and for providing the HTTP API that esplora queries.
electrs can index the bitcoin block chain ...
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To run bitcoin core testnet on Ubuntu 16.04
getinfo is now deprecated. Use getblockchaininfo instead:
bitcoin-cli -testnet getblockchaininfo
I don't have 50 reputation to comment. Otherwise, I would've added this as a comment.
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Why is my bitcoind daemon not listening on RPC port at 8332?
Two thoughts:
The wildcard syntax is not supported anymore. Instead of 192.168.*.*, use 192.168.0.0/16. Instead of 192.168.1.*, use 192.168.1.0/24.
As an additional debugging step, try running ...
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How to check Bitcoind is mining?
Answers to your respective questions:
Since 0.12, bitcoind supports cookie file authentication. This means that on startup of bitcoind, a file with a random key in it is created. Anyone who can ...
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Where is the configuration file?
The configuration file is definitely in $HOME/.bitcoin/. If you cannot see it, the most likely explanation is that you have not created it. Just use your favorite text editor to do so. As far as I can ...
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Can't reach remote bitcoin rpc server
Please keep in mind that exposing your node's RPC interface to the entire internet is considered to be unsafe. RPCs are not encrypted so anything that you send to your node will be in cleartext for ...
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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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bitcoind no such file or directory when trying to execute on Ubuntu for Raspberry Pi 4
Edit: you’re using the wrong architecture bitcoind binary, gnueabihf means armv7 hard float, which is 32-bit. There are 3 possibilities:
Download the correct Bitcoin binary for arm64 architecture (...
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How to compile Bitcoin-Qt as an .exe on Ubuntu?
Since this is the first result that pops up on google when searching "bitcoin windows depends build" and the user asked how to build the .exe (but was actually looking for static build instructions on ...
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What causes the wallet functions to be disabled?
In Bitcoin Core 0.11 pruning is experimental, and incompatible with the wallet.
So turning on the prune= option automatically disables the wallet function.
In 0.12 the wallet will work with pruning (...
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Bitcoin regtest mining
You can build your miner with a bash command:
$ while true; do bitcoin-cli -regtest generate 1; sleep 300; done
You'l get a block every 5'. If you want a better simulation of mainnet you could use a ...
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Can't reach remote bitcoin rpc server
If anyone got problem with reaching bitcoin-rpc server located on vps, the best way in my opinion would be port redirecting over shh. By this command:
ssh [user]@[host] -p [port] -L 18332:127.0.0.1:...
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GPU mining slows down my ubuntu
Mining on a cpu at all is a bad idea, it can and will wear the cpu down, and is ridiculously slow compared to a gpu. Also mining with an Nvidia card isn't the smartest thing either as they are much ...
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How to check Bitcoind block chain download progress level
I wanted a nicer output.
Based off @o0'. answer ...
BC_CURRENT=`./bitcoin-cli getblockcount 2>&1`; BC_HEIGHT=`wget -O - http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount 2>/dev/null`; perl -E "say ...
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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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How to check Bitcoind block chain download progress level
here a bash script for see the live progress
create a file nano [nom fichier] and copy the code below
run script with bash [nom fichier]
stop script by type on your keyboard
Script :
sleepTime=4 #...
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How to check Bitcoind block chain download progress level
tail -f .bitcoin/debug.log
You will see the progress % in the end of every line.
2019-05-21T15:53:22Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000000007463022a75f47fbce4832d885cccfddc66b9ae6d332888f825d height=...
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Bitcoin regtest mining
I am answering my own question for those who run into the same situation and for the sake of knowledge sharing.
YES you can mine on a regtest network. The difficulty of mining on regtest is extremely ...
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How to Bitcoin Core daemon start automatically each time your reboot your computer.?
The init scripts can be found here: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/contrib/init.
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bitcoind 23.0 crashed mysteriously after 2 hours, what do I do next?
I think I found a likely cause of the crashes. I saw some suspicious log messages:
[ 6067.607405] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 155782528 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class ...
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How to check Bitcoind block chain download progress level
If you have bitcoin cli installed. The below command will help.
echo `bitcoin-cli getblockcount 2>&1`/`wget -O - http://blockchain.info/q/getblockcount 2>/dev/null`
Sample output
365320/...
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No menu in Ubuntu bitcoin-qt
This solved it on Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get remove appmenu-qt5
and the menu was visible when bitcoin-qt (bitcoin-0.13.0rc1, compiled from source) restarted.
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Running a command line bitcoin CPU miner on ubuntu for slush's pool
After spinning-up my Raspberry Pi and registering an account at slushpool I've had success with the following process:
sudo apt-get install automake autoconf pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev ...
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GPU mining slows down my ubuntu
Just purchase a second computer specifically for Monero mining, and don't even run the GUI (Unity). If your mining efforts aren't profitable enough to warrant a dedicated computer, then you probably ...
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How to compile Bitcoin-Qt as an .exe on Ubuntu?
An alternative solution would be to build a tarball archive like the one you can download from the Bitcoin Core website.
To do that you have to follow the release process, as explained in:
https://...
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Can't run Bitcoin Core 0.13.1
the ppa for ubuntu is https://launchpad.net/~bitcoin/+archive/ubuntu/bitcoin it shows the support of ubuntu 0.13.1
so you need to run
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
sudo apt-get update
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How to install Electrum wallet in an offline Linux computer?
I needed a special command to use local storage, which at last worked:
sudo pip install Electrum-2.7.12.tar.gz --no-index --find-links `pwd`
UPDATE: Whenever I've had to do this for the second time, ...
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Can I move my wallet.dat from Ubuntu to Mac OS?
If you are using release binaries, yes. You must make sure to shut down Bitcoin Core cleanly before moving the file over, though.
If you're using self-compiled versions, this is only possible if both ...
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