This worked beautifully. Thanks!

Thanks for letting me know of that function. However I don't believe I'll be using it, as the whole point of running a node is to simply contribute a bit. If it gets considerably larger I'll either upgrade the size of the disk or just stop running it & delete the blocks.

I run Bitcoin-QT on an Ubuntu that's installed to a small SSD, & the blocks folder is on a larger HDD.

It's blocks folder is over 145GB & I'd like to be able to reduce that somehow. At first I looked into there being a way to compress individual folders like Windows can on NTFS, but brief Googling told me that's not a thing in linux.

Any tricks to do this?

Awesome, that worked. Thanks.

I've installed it via the following ppa, which I was under the impression was the 'standard' way to do so.

http://ppa.launchpad.net/bitcoin/bitcoin/ubuntu/

Is there a better, 'best practice', or official method aside from this?

AFAIK it's the official one: Bitcoin Core version v0.14.1.0-g964a185 (64-bit)

I'm on Linux Mint 18.1 with Bitcoin Core version v0.14.1.0-g964a185 (64-bit).

I'm unable to check the "Network > Map port using UPnP" checkbox because it's grayed out. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/dusmd

Don't know if its relevant, but I am able to in Litecoin Core.

Please help.

Closed due to lack of interest

Bounty closed- verified working!  :-)

I guess I should really know if it works, it probably does. Will pay someone 0.027BTC to connect a couple miners to it & test it out. Of course I'll need to see them connected to verify you're not just taking my money. Thanks in advance for your help.

When I try to advertise here, I get an 'account suspended' error when it comes time to pay.

https://imgur.com/L6eK5Sh

Where else should I be advertising? I have a new mining pool, https://crypt0.space

For anyone else wondering, this is how I got it to work. The following is my /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf doing a reverse proxy.

<VirtualHost *:443>
        ServerName domain.tld
        ProxyPass / http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xx/
        ProxyPassReverse / http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xx/
        RedirectMatch ^/$ https://domain.tld/
        SSLEngine on
        SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/path-to/domain.crt
        SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/path-to/domain.key
   LogLevel info ssl:warn
   ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
   CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

I just finished working on launching my own pool:

https://crypt0.space/

I don't even know if it works yet, to be honest- I'm assuming it does, it's a strong FOSS based backend.

Anyway, it would be nice to see some activity on it, so if you'd like to help me build hashrate I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

-c

Hi,

I'd like to know how I can make NOMP use https / ssl for the frontend.

Thanks,

-N

Hi,

I'm new to this & am depending entirely on the instructions that are published on github, which may or may not be complete. In my case something's amiss because although I configured it like they said to, I still get errors [1] at startup.

Relevant config files are as follows:
coin litecoin.json [2]
coin bitcoin.json [3]
pool config litecoin.json [4]
pool config bitcoin.json [5]
main config.json [6]

I verified the .json was able to validate & their syntax comes up as good...

Would someone kindly let me in on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks,

-N

EDIT:
Wound up hiring someone on Fiverr to fix it.



[1]
https://imgur.com/NIK95q8

[2]
http://pastebin.com/iDi7FgFR

[3]
http://pastebin.com/hMM9keVC

[4]
http://pastebin.com/R6mic7dr

[5]
http://pastebin.com/ccGzEzGf

[6]
http://pastebin.com/HdjA0pF7

0.045 BTC Bounty- Help me get my eloipool running right so people can connect & fees are deducted


Hi,

I got bitcoind & eloipool up & running on my VPS, but I have no mining gear with which to test it- bfgminer returns an error about 'no servers to connect to' when I run it from my desktop using the public IP address of the VPS.

Bounty will be paid to anyone who can sort out the configuration such that bitcoin miners can connect to the pool & pool fees are deducted properly.

It could be configured properly now, but I can't tell without connecting to it myself to see. Either way, I'd like you to record the screen or something to prove its working right, so I can pay you knowing I'm not getting scammed.

PM me if interested.

Thanks,

-N

My bitcoind & eloipool are running, but when I do this:

<code>C:/Progra~1/bfgminer-5.3.0-win64/bfgminer.exe --userpass 1DPLoA65tQmkA9RBqgYXuwbFvfbhF24Sjr:password --url stratum+tcp://173.246.106.141:3334,</code>

I get this error:
<code>No servers could be used! Exiting.</code>

What do I have to do to fix it?

Found instructions here:
https://bitcointa.lk/threads/how-to-start-your-own-mining-pool-using-bitcoind-eloipool.272362/

The only error I get now is presumably due to bitcoind not being completely sync'd. Otherwise I think I'm in good shape. TY anyway.

According to the dev who wrote it, the errors I get when trying to run it indicate an old, mismatched python installation. I have 2.7 & 3.x installed & if I try to uninstall 2.7, aptitude wants to delete all sorts of stuff I need.

So my mission right now is to figure out how to make eloipool use the newer version of python in case that helps.