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Detect when it is safe to 'stop' the Bitcoin Core Daemon, bitcoind
When bitcoind re-verifies blocks, it is not redownloading them. It is just loading them from disk and making sure that the databases are consistent. Bitcoind will always re-verify a small number of ...
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json parsing error with createrawtransaction with bitcoin-cli in regtest
Using quotes and escaping like this should work on Windows:
createrawtransaction "[{\"txid\":\"7b2d65b85487a891a3e0a9c541975fa7e681e571ea18982da49402e594ca2af1\",\"vout\&...
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What could be the reason that my node syncs so slowly during Header Synchronization?
Without knowing your bitcoin.conf settings and debug.log, it is difficult to say. Generally speaking, however, here are a few things:
365GB is not enough space, so you'll have to run in pruned mode ...
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How install electrum for other users on Windows?
Per Electrum's github, this issue appears to be Windows-specific and is caused by pyinstaller (an upstream dependency) running under the admin context. This means that the installer will only create ...
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BitcoinCore 25.1 won't launch (Windows 10.0.19045)
Found the culprit : an older bitcoin.conf file in Appdata that I missed somehow.
Edit: Thanks for pointing me to the right solution, Antoine !
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How can I update lnd to 0.17 on Windows?
Yes, simply stop LND, replace lnd.exe and lncli.exe with the new files and start it again. As described in the release notes, there is a database migration that needs to run once after the update, so ...
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Detect when it is safe to 'stop' the Bitcoin Core Daemon, bitcoind
This is pretty silly, but I wanted to document the issue for future visitors. The problem was in the shutdown portion of my script where it waits 30 seconds for the bitcoind process to shutdown ...
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Why might my db be locked on starting bitcoin-qt after a clean shutdown and reboot?
Use Microsoft's Handle tool to see what files are open, and add the details to your question (You can limit the output to a specific folder or keyword such as 'bitcoin' by running the tool like this:
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Bitcoin Core running in a Linux Docker container under Windows doesn't recognise an already downloaded blockchain copied from Windows Bitcoin Core
Doh! I had the mapping for the directory wrong in the docker file. It has now started up and is verifying the blocks.
I would delete the question, but knowing this works may be useful to someone.
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