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Title: Seeding blockchain via headless VPS Post by: jago25_98 on December 13, 2011, 06:44:01 PM I'd like to host the blockchain via Bittorrent, seed it from my VPS and announce on http://openbittorrent.com/
But how do I create a .torrent from rtorrent? It's easy to do on the desktop but wasn't so clear from the commandline. I used: Code: btmakemetafile udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80 ./namecoinDatabase Links: rtorrent: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ Transmission howto create torrent (desktop): http://wiki.foresightlinux.org/wiki/display/docs/How+to+create+a+Torrent+file How to do it from Windows: http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-create-a-torrent/ The linux Bitcoin & python doesn't seem to be available from the Bittorrent website anymore ( http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/BitTorrent-4.0.2.tar.gz etc is 404) so I used Bittornado edit... working on it... I guess now I have to start rtorrent and add that .torrent file? p.s. if you're thinking of doing this I suggest don't host it on the same machine as one with a live wallet. Is it working for you? edit: Already hosted here :p http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/blockchain/ There should be some checks and measures and more easy for new users to import a blockchain, and md5sum checking too. |