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More bitcoin node self-hosting pain #AskNostr
Spoke too early... I ran Bitcoin Core QT, and all's good. I even set up Sparrow, Wasabi, Bisq, etc. and they all hook up to locally on the right port it and work fine. I have rebooted the system several times and nothing gets fucked in the process, so I'm happy.
Problem is, first, for some reason despite having selected the option on the GUI, this thing just won't run on startup. I have to manually open it every time. Annoying.
Anyway, now I'm trying to run this thing as a service to see if I can set up Electrum and eventually Mempool, and it's a hot mess.
First, after much figuring out just how to even run any of this on Terminal, because for some reason all the commands are different (I guess Snap's fault?), I can manually start "bitcoin-core.daemon", which shows up as "bitcoind" in the process list, so nice.
Problem is, it has ignored the previously set data and block folders and it seems to have begun a separate initial download, because I found the corresponding folders and files (including 25 Gb of blocks already) on my internal disk.
If I start QT as usual, it's using the correct ones, no new synch required.
I am now paralyzed scared shitless that if I point the daemon to the correct folders that qt is using, it will nuke them and restart the excruciating initial download again...
Spoke too early... I ran Bitcoin Core QT, and all's good. I even set up Sparrow, Wasabi, Bisq, etc. and they all hook up to locally on the right port it and work fine. I have rebooted the system several times and nothing gets fucked in the process, so I'm happy.
Problem is, first, for some reason despite having selected the option on the GUI, this thing just won't run on startup. I have to manually open it every time. Annoying.
Anyway, now I'm trying to run this thing as a service to see if I can set up Electrum and eventually Mempool, and it's a hot mess.
First, after much figuring out just how to even run any of this on Terminal, because for some reason all the commands are different (I guess Snap's fault?), I can manually start "bitcoin-core.daemon", which shows up as "bitcoind" in the process list, so nice.
Problem is, it has ignored the previously set data and block folders and it seems to have begun a separate initial download, because I found the corresponding folders and files (including 25 Gb of blocks already) on my internal disk.
If I start QT as usual, it's using the correct ones, no new synch required.
I am now paralyzed scared shitless that if I point the daemon to the correct folders that qt is using, it will nuke them and restart the excruciating initial download again...
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