Yes exactly!

Yes indeed I can create users to allow people to play with but more risky.


My idea is that I rented recently a quite good server and I can run bitcoin with good configs like coinstats, txindex and I can add other indexes, and I think it can be good to share it with the community. In the idea to provide a pretty good endpoint RPC with good features and understand how to provide such kind of services.
Like a first node providing experimentation for the community. But I know that it's dangerous and need to fill some requirements.

Ok thank you! Just to be sure to understand, as I put rpcbind=0.0.0.0:8332 127.0.0.1:8332 address will not be accessible anymore right? Or yes it's still working as usually because 0.0.0.0 maps 127.0.0.1.
Sorry it's more a general network question than bitcoin focused...

Do you know if I can find somewhere a nginx config example dedicated to Bitcoin RPC which is locking wallets access but allow rest and some basics rpc call everything in https?

I'm still figuring out, but I have a port with https TLS certificate for the server. Such that it can be authenticated regarding TLS but I still don't know how to activate it ^^'

Hello,

Thanks for your answer. Nginx acts as a reverse proxy? Cool, so I just have to configure nginx about 8332 port communication?

Any thoughts about Runes protocol in this topic? rodarmor.com/blog/runes
Halving is arriving in ~2k blocks and fees can be way higher than any brc20 previous wave. Do we have the same angry people?

Hey,

How long are we staying with newbie status 

Is it after a certain time, or number of posts or reply? 

Hello,

I recently take a quite big server where I'm running Bitcoind with txindex=1 and I think it can be interesting for people to have access to this.

In order to make it accessible I activated rpcbindaddress=0.0.0.0. For now I whitelisted two IPs but my idea is to put accessible to everyone. But it seems to be very dangerous according to every documentations and help.


I put here my conf  and I'm very interested to understand how to give endpoints accessible by anyone to have Bitcoin info. I removed some unused options.
I own the server and can modify everything.

Hope to understand all of this and don't make too many mistakes in order to do this.

##
## bitcoin.conf configuration file.
## Generated by contrib/devtools/gen-bitcoin-conf.sh.
##
## Lines beginning with # are comments.
## All possible configuration options are provided. To use, copy this file
## to your data directory (default or specified by -datadir), uncomment
## options you would like to change, and save the file.
##


### Options


# Execute command when an alert is raised (%s in cmd is replaced by
# message)
#alertnotify=<cmd>

# For backwards compatibility, treat an unused bitcoin.conf file in the
# datadir as a warning, not an error.
#allowignoredconf=1

# If this block is in the chain assume that it and its ancestors are valid
# and potentially skip their script verification (0 to verify all,
# default:
# 000000000000000000026811d149d4d261995ec5b3f64f439a0a10e1a464af9a,
# testnet:
# 000000000001323071f38f21ea5aae529ece491eadaccce506a59bcc2d968917,
# signet:
# 0000000870f15246ba23c16e370a7ffb1fc8a3dcf8cb4492882ed4b0e3d4cd26)
#assumevalid=<hex>

# Maintain an index of compact filters by block (default: 0, values:
# basic). If <type> is not supplied or if <type> = 1, indexes for
# all known types are enabled.
#blockfilterindex=<type>

# Execute command when the best block changes (%s in cmd is replaced by
# block hash)
#blocknotify=<cmd>

# Extra transactions to keep in memory for compact block reconstructions
# (default: 100)
#blockreconstructionextratxn=<n>

# Specify directory to hold blocks subdirectory for *.dat files (default:
# <datadir>)
#blocksdir=<dir>

# Whether to reject transactions from network peers. Disables automatic
# broadcast and rebroadcast of transactions, unless the source peer
# has the 'forcerelay' permission. RPC transactions are not
# affected. (default: 0)
#blocksonly=1

# Maintain coinstats index used by the gettxoutsetinfo RPC (default: 0)
coinstatsindex=1

# Maintain a full transaction index, used by the getrawtransaction rpc
# call (default: 0)
txindex=1

# Print version and exit
#version=1


### Connection options


# Add a node to connect to and attempt to keep the connection open (see
# the addnode RPC help for more info). This option can be specified
# multiple times to add multiple nodes; connections are limited to
# 8 at a time and are counted separately from the -maxconnections
# limit.
#addnode=<ip>

# Specify asn mapping used for bucketing of the peers (default:
# ip_asn.map). Relative paths will be prefixed by the net-specific
# datadir location.
#asmap=<file>

# Default duration (in seconds) of manually configured bans (default:
# 86400)
#bantime=<n>

# Bind to given address and always listen on it (default: 0.0.0.0). Use
# [host]:port notation for IPv6. Append =onion to tag any incoming
# connections to that address and port as incoming Tor connections
# (default: 127.0.0.1:8334=onion, testnet: 127.0.0.1:18334=onion,
# signet: 127.0.0.1:38334=onion, regtest: 127.0.0.1:18445=onion)
#bind=<addr>[:<port>][=onion]

# If set, then this host is configured for CJDNS (connecting to fc00::/8
# addresses would lead us to the CJDNS network, see doc/cjdns.md)
# (default: 0)
#cjdnsreachable=1

# Connect only to the specified node; -noconnect disables automatic
# connections (the rules for this peer are the same as for
# -addnode). This option can be specified multiple times to connect
# to multiple nodes.
#connect=<ip>

# Discover own IP addresses (default: 1 when listening and no -externalip
# or -proxy)
#discover=1

# Allow DNS lookups for -addnode, -seednode and -connect (default: 1)
#dns=1

# Query for peer addresses via DNS lookup, if low on addresses (default: 1
# unless -connect used or -maxconnections=0)
#dnsseed=1

# Specify your own public address
externalip=94.16.123.98

# Allow fixed seeds if DNS seeds don't provide peers (default: 1)
#fixedseeds=1

# Always query for peer addresses via DNS lookup (default: 0)
#forcednsseed=1

# Whether to accept inbound I2P connections (default: 1). Ignored if
# -i2psam is not set. Listening for inbound I2P connections is done
# through the SAM proxy, not by binding to a local address and
# port.
#i2pacceptincoming=1

# I2P SAM proxy to reach I2P peers and accept I2P connections (default:
# none)
#i2psam=<ip:port>

# Accept connections from outside (default: 1 if no -proxy, -connect or
# -maxconnections=0)
listen=1

# Automatically create Tor onion service (default: 1)
#listenonion=1

# Maintain at most <n> automatic connections to peers (default: 125). This
# limit does not apply to connections manually added via -addnode
# or the addnode RPC, which have a separate limit of 8.
#maxconnections=<n>

# Maximum per-connection receive buffer, <n>*1000 bytes (default: 5000)
#maxreceivebuffer=<n>

# Maximum per-connection memory usage for the send buffer, <n>*1000 bytes
# (default: 1000)
#maxsendbuffer=<n>

# Maximum allowed median peer time offset adjustment. Local perspective of
# time may be influenced by outbound peers forward or backward by
# this amount (default: 4200 seconds).
#maxtimeadjustment=1

# Tries to keep outbound traffic under the given target per 24h. Limit
# does not apply to peers with 'download' permission or blocks
# created within past week. 0 = no limit (default: 0M). Optional
# suffix units [k|K|m|M|g|G|t|T] (default: M). Lowercase is 1000
# base while uppercase is 1024 base
#maxuploadtarget=<n>

# Use NAT-PMP to map the listening port (default: 0)
#natpmp=1

# Enable all P2P network activity (default: 1). Can be changed by the
# setnetworkactive RPC command
networkactive=1

# Use separate SOCKS5 proxy to reach peers via Tor onion services, set
# -noonion to disable (default: -proxy). May be a local file path
# prefixed with 'unix:'.
#onion=<ip:port|path>

# Make automatic outbound connections only to network <net> (ipv4, ipv6,
# onion, i2p, cjdns). Inbound and manual connections are not
# affected by this option. It can be specified multiple times to
# allow multiple networks.
#onlynet=<net>

# Serve compact block filters to peers per BIP 157 (default: 0)
#peerblockfilters=1

# Support filtering of blocks and transaction with bloom filters (default:
# 0)
#peerbloomfilters=1

# Listen for connections on <port>. Nodes not using the default ports
# (default: 8333, testnet: 18333, signet: 38333, regtest: 18444)
# are unlikely to get incoming connections. Not relevant for I2P
# (see doc/i2p.md).
#port=<port>

# Connect through SOCKS5 proxy, set -noproxy to disable (default:
# disabled). May be a local file path prefixed with 'unix:' if the
# proxy supports it.
#proxy=<ip:port|path>

# Randomize credentials for every proxy connection. This enables Tor
# stream isolation (default: 1)
#proxyrandomize=1

# Connect to a node to retrieve peer addresses, and disconnect. This
# option can be specified multiple times to connect to multiple
# nodes.
#seednode=<ip>

# Specify socket connection timeout in milliseconds. If an initial attempt
# to connect is unsuccessful after this amount of time, drop it
# (minimum: 1, default: 5000)
#timeout=<n>

# Tor control host and port to use if onion listening enabled (default:
# 127.0.0.1:9051). If no port is specified, the default port of
# 9051 will be used.
#torcontrol=<ip>:<port>

# Tor control port password (default: empty)
#torpassword=<pass>

# Use UPnP to map the listening port (default: 1 when listening and no
# -proxy)
#upnp=1

# Support v2 transport (default: 1)
#v2transport=1

# Bind to the given address and add permission flags to the peers
# connecting to it. Use [host]:port notation for IPv6. Allowed
# permissions: bloomfilter (allow requesting BIP37 filtered blocks
# and transactions), noban (do not ban for misbehavior; implies
# download), forcerelay (relay transactions that are already in the
# mempool; implies relay), relay (relay even in -blocksonly mode,
# and unlimited transaction announcements), mempool (allow
# requesting BIP35 mempool contents), download (allow getheaders
# during IBD, no disconnect after maxuploadtarget limit), addr
# (responses to GETADDR avoid hitting the cache and contain random
# records with the most up-to-date info). Specify multiple
# permissions separated by commas (default:
# download,noban,mempool,relay). Can be specified multiple times.
#whitebind=<[permissions@]addr>

# Add permission flags to the peers using the given IP address (e.g.
# 1.2.3.4) or CIDR-notated network (e.g. 1.2.3.0/24). Uses the same
# permissions as -whitebind. Additional flags "in" and "out"
# control whether permissions apply to incoming connections and/or
# manual (default: incoming only). Can be specified multiple times.
#whitelist=<[permissions@]IP address or network>


### Wallet options


# What type of addresses to use ("legacy", "p2sh-segwit", "bech32", or
# "bech32m", default: "bech32")
#addresstype=1

# Group outputs by address, selecting many (possibly all) or none, instead
# of selecting on a per-output basis. Privacy is improved as
# addresses are mostly swept with fewer transactions and outputs
# are aggregated in clean change addresses. It may result in higher
# fees due to less optimal coin selection caused by this added
# limitation and possibly a larger-than-necessary number of inputs
# being used. Always enabled for wallets with "avoid_reuse"
# enabled, otherwise default: 0.
#avoidpartialspends=1

# What type of change to use ("legacy", "p2sh-segwit", "bech32", or
# "bech32m"). Default is "legacy" when -addresstype=legacy, else it
# is an implementation detail.
#changetype=1

# The maximum feerate (in BTC/kvB) at which transaction building may use
# more inputs than strictly necessary so that the wallet's UTXO
# pool can be reduced (default: 0.0001).
#consolidatefeerate=<amt>

# Do not load the wallet and disable wallet RPC calls
#disablewallet=1

# The fee rate (in BTC/kvB) that indicates your tolerance for discarding
# change by adding it to the fee (default: 0.0001). Note: An output
# is discarded if it is dust at this rate, but we will always
# discard up to the dust relay fee and a discard fee above that is
# limited by the fee estimate for the longest target
#discardfee=<amt>

# A fee rate (in BTC/kvB) that will be used when fee estimation has
# insufficient data. 0 to entirely disable the fallbackfee feature.
# (default: 0.00)
#fallbackfee=<amt>

# Set key pool size to <n> (default: 1000). Warning: Smaller sizes may
# increase the risk of losing funds when restoring from an old
# backup, if none of the addresses in the original keypool have
# been used.
#keypool=<n>

# Spend up to this amount in additional (absolute) fees (in BTC) if it
# allows the use of partial spend avoidance (default: 0.00)
#maxapsfee=<n>

# Fee rates (in BTC/kvB) smaller than this are considered zero fee for
# transaction creation (default: 0.00001)
#mintxfee=<amt>

# Fee rate (in BTC/kvB) to add to transactions you send (default: 0.00)
#paytxfee=<amt>

# External signing tool, see doc/external-signer.md
#signer=<cmd>

# Spend unconfirmed change when sending transactions (default: 1)
#spendzeroconfchange=1

# If paytxfee is not set, include enough fee so transactions begin
# confirmation on average within n blocks (default: 6)
#txconfirmtarget=<n>

# Specify wallet path to load at startup. Can be used multiple times to
# load multiple wallets. Path is to a directory containing wallet
# data and log files. If the path is not absolute, it is
# interpreted relative to <walletdir>. This only loads existing
# wallets and does not create new ones. For backwards compatibility
# this also accepts names of existing top-level data files in
# <walletdir>.
#wallet=<path>

# Make the wallet broadcast transactions (default: 1)
#walletbroadcast=1

# Specify directory to hold wallets (default: <datadir>/wallets if it
# exists, otherwise <datadir>)
#walletdir=<dir>

# Execute command when a wallet transaction changes. %s in cmd is replaced
# by TxID, %w is replaced by wallet name, %b is replaced by the
# hash of the block including the transaction (set to 'unconfirmed'
# if the transaction is not included) and %h is replaced by the
# block height (-1 if not included). %w is not currently
# implemented on windows. On systems where %w is supported, it
# should NOT be quoted because this would break shell escaping used
# to invoke the command.
#walletnotify=<cmd>

# Send transactions with full-RBF opt-in enabled (RPC only, default: 1)
walletrbf=1



### Node relay options


# Equivalent bytes per sigop in transactions for relay and mining
# (default: 20)
#bytespersigop=1

# Relay and mine data carrier transactions (default: 1)
#datacarrier=1

# Relay and mine transactions whose data-carrying raw scriptPubKey is of
# this size or less (default: 83)
#datacarriersize=1

# Accept transaction replace-by-fee without requiring replaceability
# signaling (default: 0)
mempoolfullrbf=1

# Fees (in BTC/kvB) smaller than this are considered zero fee for
# relaying, mining and transaction creation (default: 0.00001)
#minrelaytxfee=<amt>

# Relay non-P2SH multisig (default: 1)
#permitbaremultisig=1

# Add 'forcerelay' permission to whitelisted peers with default
# permissions. This will relay transactions even if the
# transactions were already in the mempool. (default: 0)
#whitelistforcerelay=1

# Add 'relay' permission to whitelisted peers with default permissions.
# This will accept relayed transactions even when not relaying
# transactions (default: 1)
#whitelistrelay=1


### Block creation options


# Set maximum BIP141 block weight (default: 3996000)
#blockmaxweight=<n>

# Set lowest fee rate (in BTC/kvB) for transactions to be included in
# block creation. (default: 0.00001)
#blockmintxfee=<amt>


### RPC server options


# Accept public REST requests (default: 0)
rest=1

# Allow JSON-RPC connections from specified source. Valid values for <ip>
# are a single IP (e.g. 1.2.3.4), a network/netmask (e.g.
# 1.2.3.4/255.255.255.0), a network/CIDR (e.g. 1.2.3.4/24), all
# ipv4 (0.0.0.0/0), or all ipv6 (::/0). This option can be
# specified multiple times
rpcallowip=MY_IP_1
rpcallowip=MY_IP_2

# Username and HMAC-SHA-256 hashed password for JSON-RPC connections. The
# field <userpw> comes in the format: <USERNAME>:<SALT>$<HASH>. A
# canonical python script is included in share/rpcauth. The client
# then connects normally using the
# rpcuser=<USERNAME>/rpcpassword=<PASSWORD> pair of arguments. This
# option can be specified multiple times
rpcauth=USER:0949c0b552d208e24608d4896e706422$15b778b47156bc76545a262452a6475db8d78a8a3639c2d044ee2a6a73675ea7

# Bind to given address to listen for JSON-RPC connections. Do not expose
# the RPC server to untrusted networks such as the public internet!
# This option is ignored unless -rpcallowip is also passed. Port is
# optional and overrides -rpcport. Use [host]:port notation for
# IPv6. This option can be specified multiple times (default:
# 127.0.0.1 and ::1 i.e., localhost)
rpcbind=0.0.0.0:8332

# Location of the auth cookie. Relative paths will be prefixed by a
# net-specific datadir location. (default: data dir)
#rpccookiefile=<loc>

# Password for JSON-RPC connections
#rpcpassword=<pw>

# Listen for JSON-RPC connections on <port> (default: 8332, testnet:
# 18332, signet: 38332, regtest: 18443)
#rpcport=<port>

# Set the number of threads to service RPC calls (default: 4)
rpcthreads=1000

# Username for JSON-RPC connections
#rpcuser=<user>

# Set a whitelist to filter incoming RPC calls for a specific user. The
# field <whitelist> comes in the format: <USERNAME>:<rpc 1>,<rpc
# 2>,...,<rpc n>. If multiple whitelists are set for a given user,
# they are set-intersected. See -rpcwhitelistdefault documentation
# for information on default whitelist behavior.
#rpcwhitelist=<whitelist>

# Sets default behavior for rpc whitelisting. Unless rpcwhitelistdefault
# is set to 0, if any -rpcwhitelist is set, the rpc server acts as
# if all rpc users are subject to empty-unless-otherwise-specified
# whitelists. If rpcwhitelistdefault is set to 1 and no
# -rpcwhitelist is set, rpc server acts as if all rpc users are
# subject to empty whitelists.
#rpcwhitelistdefault=1

# Accept command line and JSON-RPC commands
server=1

Thank you for all your answers. What I did is come back to the original path and modify the config file to make it working. Now wallets are loaded with the flag -walletdir=.../testnet3/wallets.

I still don't know why it doesn't work before but now it works. I'm still strugling with bitcoin-cli because he doesn't want to read config file in PATH. Rather than bitcoind is running correctly into this path...


I hope to find the problem soon. Thanks again everyone for your answer.

Yes there are.
Each wallet.dat are into its folder:

wallets/FirstTestWallet:
wallet.dat

wallets/FirstTestnetWallet:
wallet.dat

wallets/TestOPReturnWallet:
wallet.dat

wallets/ord:
wallet.dat

wallets/test_cli:
wallet.dat         wallet.dat-journal


And there are into testnet3/wallets and testnet3/tesnet3/wallets

My point is really this. The structure seems to be the same as on the mainnet where I can load them (mainnet wallets not testnet ones)

The file settings.json is replicated into /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3 and /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3.

The settings.json file contains:


{
    "_warning_": "This file is automatically generated and updated by Bitcoin Core. Please do not edit this file while the node is running, as any changes might be ignored or overwritten."
}



I reproduce the last log above.

Let me know if you need anything else to have more info.



2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Bitcoin Core version v27.99.0-015ac13dcc96 (release build)
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Script verification uses 7 additional threads
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using the 'x86_shani(1way,2way)' SHA256 implementation
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using RdSeed as an additional entropy source
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using RdRand as an additional entropy source
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Default data directory /Users/galois/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using data directory /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file: /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/bitcoin.conf
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file arg: [test] printtoconsole="1"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file arg: [test] rpcallowip="127.0.0.1"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file arg: [test] rpcbind="127.0.0.1"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file arg: [test] rpcport="18332"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Config file arg: [test] testnet="1"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Command-line arg: datadir="/Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Command-line arg: testnet=""
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Command-line arg: txindex="1"
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using at most 125 automatic connections (285 file descriptors available)
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using 16 MiB out of 16 MiB requested for signature cache, able to store 524288 elements
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using 16 MiB out of 16 MiB requested for script execution cache, able to store 524288 elements
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z scheduler thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Binding RPC on address 127.0.0.1 port 18332
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using random cookie authentication.
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Generated RPC authentication cookie /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/.cookie
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Starting HTTP server with 4 worker threads
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using wallet directory /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/wallets
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z init message: Verifying wallet(s)…
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using /16 prefix for IP bucketing
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z init message: Loading P2P addresses…
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Loaded 22415 addresses from peers.dat  71ms
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z init message: Loading banlist…
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z SetNetworkActive: true
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Script verification uses 7 additional threads
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Cache configuration:
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z * Using 2.0 MiB for block index database
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z * Using 56.0 MiB for transaction index database
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z * Using 8.0 MiB for chain state database
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z * Using 384.0 MiB for in-memory UTXO set (plus up to 286.1 MiB of unused mempool space)
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z init message: Loading block index…
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Assuming ancestors of block 000000000001323071f38f21ea5aae529ece491eadaccce506a59bcc2d968917 have valid signatures.
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Setting nMinimumChainWork=000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000c59b14e264ba6c15db9
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Opening LevelDB in /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/blocks/index
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-03-21T12:25:10Z Using obfuscation key for /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/blocks/index: 0000000000000000
2024-03-21T12:25:18Z LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file = 243
2024-03-21T12:25:18Z LoadBlockIndexDB: last block file info: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=377, size=77285114, heights=2582462...2582883, time=2024-03-18...2024-03-21)
2024-03-21T12:25:18Z Checking all blk files are present...
2024-03-21T12:25:23Z Initializing chainstate Chainstate [ibd] @ height -1 (null)
2024-03-21T12:25:23Z Opening LevelDB in /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/chainstate
2024-03-21T12:25:23Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-03-21T12:25:23Z Using obfuscation key for /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/chainstate: 15c231132368eddf
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Loaded best chain: hashBestChain=0000000001413dd752ecefeb8cd5d84fe3fb2fc8b5f9f6fc5ee3e927d63ee3e3 height=2582883 date=2024-03-21T09:53:33Z progress=0.999821
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Opening LevelDB in /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/chainstate
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Using obfuscation key for /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/chainstate: 15c231132368eddf
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z [Chainstate [ibd] @ height 2582883 (0000000001413dd752ecefeb8cd5d84fe3fb2fc8b5f9f6fc5ee3e927d63ee3e3)] resized coinsdb cache to 8.0 MiB
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z [Chainstate [ibd] @ height 2582883 (0000000001413dd752ecefeb8cd5d84fe3fb2fc8b5f9f6fc5ee3e927d63ee3e3)] resized coinstip cache to 384.0 MiB
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z init message: Verifying blocks…
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verifying last 6 blocks at level 3
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 0%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 16%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 33%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 50%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 66%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 83%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification progress: 99%
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Verification: No coin database inconsistencies in last 6 blocks (3224 transactions)
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z  block index           14582ms
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Opening LevelDB in /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/indexes/txindex
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Opened LevelDB successfully
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Using obfuscation key for /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/indexes/txindex: 0000000000000000
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Setting NODE_NETWORK on non-prune mode
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z block tree size = 2582900
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z nBestHeight = 2582883
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z initload thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z txindex thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z torcontrol thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z txindex is enabled at height 2582883
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z txindex thread exit
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Loading 0 mempool transactions from disk...
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Imported mempool transactions from disk: 0 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 expired, 0 already there, 0 waiting for initial broadcast
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z AddLocal([2a02:a03f:65fc:3900:d3:ed27:d3be:fce4]:18333,1)
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z initload thread exit
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Discover: IPv6 en0: 2a02:a03f:65fc:3900:d3:ed27:d3be:fce4
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z AddLocal([2a02:a03f:65fc:3900:3128:fcaf:af7e:67bf]:18333,1)
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Discover: IPv6 en0: 2a02:a03f:65fc:3900:3128:fcaf:af7e:67bf
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Bound to 127.0.0.1:18334
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Bound to [::]:18333
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Bound to 0.0.0.0:18333
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Loaded 2 addresses from "anchors.dat"
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z 2 block-relay-only anchors will be tried for connections.
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z init message: Starting network threads…
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z net thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z msghand thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z init message: Done loading
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z dnsseed thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z addcon thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z opencon thread start
2024-03-21T12:25:24Z Waiting 300 seconds before querying DNS seeds.
2024-03-21T12:25:26Z New block-relay-only v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=0
2024-03-21T12:25:26Z New block-relay-only v1 peer connected: version: 70015, blocks=2582896, peer=1
2024-03-21T12:25:26Z Leaving InitialBlockDownload (latching to false)
2024-03-21T12:25:27Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=2
2024-03-21T12:25:41Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000001d479ec743b442d19ca113a8bb515657375e5bc73bb427589b58 height=2582884 version=0x24000000 log2_work=75.721318 tx=74493222 date='2024-03-21T10:13:35Z' progress=0.999844 cache=1.4MiB(10376txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:41Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000005f611289a6a6b9c25e48a88c6345971a66f93597b021e6c02305a height=2582885 version=0x20006000 log2_work=75.721318 tx=74494054 date='2024-03-21T10:33:36Z' progress=0.999868 cache=1.7MiB(12475txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:41Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000014aa6098952b4f6305d22f403ffe1c367f1aced9595049ba87 height=2582886 version=0x20006000 log2_work=75.721327 tx=74494316 date='2024-03-21T10:34:33Z' progress=0.999869 cache=1.7MiB(12646txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000281c1641f68b6c2434b5e82b31a910e76f99f5d95d9b136e91 height=2582887 version=0x27000000 log2_work=75.721337 tx=74494894 date='2024-03-21T10:45:18Z' progress=0.999882 cache=1.8MiB(13913txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000794b75c5810e374fd09dd9a4a57c9acabd448906ad8af05eb height=2582888 version=0x2d108000 log2_work=75.721347 tx=74495471 date='2024-03-21T10:53:25Z' progress=0.999891 cache=2.1MiB(14848txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=3
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=4
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000188c9c97985ec2f55f5f6bec62d64c6398c8f5febdddc48ac3 height=2582889 version=0x20400000 log2_work=75.721356 tx=74495570 date='2024-03-21T11:08:55Z' progress=0.999909 cache=2.1MiB(14996txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:42Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000001fca621083c80470ee09dafbd8c004d3ac6c2137a04d0e14e height=2582890 version=0x20800000 log2_work=75.721366 tx=74495576 date='2024-03-21T11:09:41Z' progress=0.999910 cache=2.1MiB(15003txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:43Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000015113b2f8571b60a0083f78cb63dfb58a8a97ed7fb2b01f21a6d56 height=2582891 version=0x20000000 log2_work=75.721366 tx=74497178 date='2024-03-21T11:29:42Z' progress=0.999934 cache=2.4MiB(18049txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:43Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000a32bf07228860ccfbbc151604895d80b0c6421fd8c80d5aed height=2582892 version=0x20600000 log2_work=75.721376 tx=74497691 date='2024-03-21T11:36:27Z' progress=0.999942 cache=2.6MiB(19052txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:44Z UpdateTip: new best=0000000022c6cf5f7d952fcef00187b65f602f7dd19437addbb0be705329b5f5 height=2582893 version=0x20000000 log2_work=75.721376 tx=74498416 date='2024-03-21T11:56:29Z' progress=0.999966 cache=2.7MiB(20552txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:44Z UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000245745b0c766f31eefb68659815497e00b7e9b1cd055b68800 height=2582894 version=0x20200000 log2_work=75.721385 tx=74498439 date='2024-03-21T11:58:16Z' progress=0.999968 cache=2.7MiB(20576txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:44Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000000ecac067910bd15815af4eec6c548104da35e3ceade9c5427c height=2582895 version=0x264a8000 log2_work=75.721395 tx=74498931 date='2024-03-21T12:03:26Z' progress=0.999974 cache=2.9MiB(21240txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:44Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=5
2024-03-21T12:25:44Z UpdateTip: new best=000000000000001938c3292b75d0135886a215b123ee409e80bde56e13e50e5c height=2582896 version=0x20800000 log2_work=75.721404 tx=74499797 date='2024-03-21T12:17:47Z' progress=0.999991 cache=3.0MiB(23166txo)
2024-03-21T12:25:46Z P2P peers available. Skipped DNS seeding.
2024-03-21T12:25:46Z dnsseed thread exit
2024-03-21T12:26:00Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70015, blocks=2582896, peer=6
2024-03-21T12:26:01Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=7
2024-03-21T12:26:02Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=8
2024-03-21T12:26:02Z New outbound-full-relay v1 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=9
2024-03-21T12:29:27Z New block-relay-only v2 peer connected: version: 70016, blocks=2582896, peer=10

It seems like the problem is the settings.json file. It is automatically generated by Bitcoin Core and in testnet no wallets are produced but in mainnet I have all wallets. 

Ok, thanks for the first flag!

But for the loadwallets why? I never used it and everything worked well testnet as well as mainnet.
Is it only the dual dash you think?

Ok thanks for your answer. It works for the RPC command.

But I still don't see my wallets loaded I don't understand why:


2024-03-20T14:20:00Z Using wallet directory /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/wallets
2024-03-20T14:20:00Z init message: Verifying wallet(s)…
2024-03-20T14:20:00Z Using /16 prefix for IP bucketing
2024-03-20T14:20:00Z init message: Loading P2P addresses…
2024-03-20T14:20:00Z Loaded 6497 addresses from peers.dat  19ms



$ bitcoin-cli -testnet -datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3 listwallets   
[
]



Don't have any ideas about why.

Hello everyone,

I post a message here cause I'm bothering to struggle too much with my bitcoind testnet and need some help to understand what's happening.

Before everything was working good. I updated the last version Bitcoin Core version v27.99.0-015ac13dcc96 and now a lot of issues with my testnet node...

So where to begin?

I'm on MacOS (LTS) and I'm using an external hard disk to store everything.

PATH=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin

I first struggled with config cause my `bitcoind` can't apply [test] section I don't know why. So, I'm using ./testnet3/bitcoin.conf.


# Testnet bitcoin.conf
printtoconsole=1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
testnet=1
[test]
rpcport=18332
rpcbind=127.0.0.1


I'm running the node with: bitcoind -datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3 -txindex=1 -testnet

I copied blocks and indexes into ./testnet3/testnet3 ^^' cause apparently if ./testnet3 is the datadir it will create a testnet3 nested folder.

The cookie file is into ./testnet3, but when I launch bitcoin-cli it told me:

$ bitcoin-cli -testnet -conf=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/bitcoin.conf help                     
error: Could not locate RPC credentials. No authentication cookie could be found, and RPC password is not set.  See -rpcpassword and -stdinrpcpass.  Configuration file: (/Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/bitcoin.conf)


This is the first problem quite important.

BUT a second problem: my wallets stored into ./testnet3/wallets AND ./testnet3/testnet3/wallets are not opened by the node:

2024-03-20T11:55:06Z Using wallet directory /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/testnet3/wallets
2024-03-20T11:55:06Z init message: Verifying wallet(s)…
2024-03-20T11:55:06Z Using /16 prefix for IP bucketing

 
It verifies wallets but nothing after...

If I launch the node in mainnet, from PATH (./) wallets are well opened. I don't uderstand why, what happen and no idea about how to solve it.

I can give any additional required details about this to try to solve it ^^'

Thank you in advance for your consideration

Hello,

As the first message on this post, I need some tBTC for a project. We can buy for some sats but we need something like 3-4 tBTC.

If you know anyone interested feel free to comment here and we can chat about it.


Thanks,

GaloisField

Ok ! With command line args it works.

But it could be cooler to just have the config file to setup and not re write a long cli args to put each time.

So, it's not necessary but cool for the next ^^

The absolute path doesn't work with error :
./bin/bitcoind -conf=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/bitcoin.conf -walletdir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/wallets -txindex=1 -testnet

Assertion failed: (base.is_absolute()), function AbsPathJoin, file fs.cpp, line 37.
[1]    28624 abort      ./bin/bitcoind   -txindex=1 -testnet


A problem is also that in my main config we can see that I set /Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/wallets/main as walletdir path but when I run bitcoind, it's still set with walletdir : /Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/wallets and so it doesn't find any wallet.

Also, when I'm trying to run bitcoind from the fodler testnet3 with :
./bin/bitcoind -conf=bitcoin.conf -walletdir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/wallets -txindex=1 -testnet

I have this in the launch :

2023-12-21T16:07:06Z Config file: /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
2023-12-21T16:07:06Z Config file arg: blocksdir="/Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/blocks"
2023-12-21T16:07:06Z Config file arg: conf="/Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"
2023-12-21T16:07:06Z Config file arg: datadir="/Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin"
2023-12-21T16:07:06Z Config file arg: settings="/Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/settings.json"
2023-12-21T16:07:06Z Config file arg: walletdir="/Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/wallets"


Which is not what is specified in the bitcoin.conf file into testnet3 :

[test]
conf=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/bitcoin.conf
datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3
blocksdir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/blocks
walletdir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/wallets
addnode=testnet.blixtwallet.com
settings=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/settings.json


I don't understand why the node is not syncing on the right conf file...

Hello,

I have a weird issue with my configuration. I tried many things and nothing really works well.

For now if the following can works it could be good.

Context : I've got MacOS last version and my hard drive 1Tb connected. I'm running everything from the path '/Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin'.

Objectives : Run my node is testnet and in mainnet with different configs properly with `bitcoind`. Everything related to the node should be into the hard drive (obviously, I don't have enough space on my computer haha).

Config file :
# Listen for connections on this port (default: 8333):
port=8332

# Network-related settings:
# Bind to given address and whitelist peers connecting to it:
bind=127.0.0.1

# JSON-RPC options:
# Server for JSON-RPC connections (default: 127.0.0.1)
#rpcbind=127.0.0.1  
# Username for JSON-RPC connections
#rpcuser=rpc_bitcoin
# Password for JSON-RPC connections
#rpcpassword=rpc_bitcoin

# Miscellaneous options:
# Size of the "memory pool" for transactions awaiting confirmation (default: 300MB)
#maxmempool=300

# File containing masternodes IPs and rewards private key
#masternode=

# Reduce storage requirements by only storing most recent N blocks (default: 288)
#prune=550

[main]
datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin
blocksdir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/blocks
walletdir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/wallets/main
conf=bitcoin.conf
spendzeroconfchange=1
txindex=1
rpcworkqueue=128
settings=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/settings.json

[test]
testnet=1
datadir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3
blocksdir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/blocks
walletdir=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/wallets/test
addnode=testnet.blixtwallet.com
settings=/Volumes/Crucial\ X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/testnet3/settings.json


Folder structure :
| - bitcoin.conf
|
| bin -- bitcoind
|
| blocks -- | blocks
               -- | index
               -- | tesnet3 -- blocks
|
| indexes -- | txindex
|
| wallets -- | main -- MyMainWallets
            -- | test -- MyTestsWallets
|
| testnet3 -- bitcoin.conf (for some tests but bitcoind couldn't read it. I don't know why cause all rights are openned)
               -- | bin -- bitcoind and others
               -- | blocks -- *.dat
                            -- | index -- *.log
               -- | wallets -- MyTestsWallets
               -- | indexes -- | txindex


Command run :
- For mainnet : ./bin/bitcoind -conf=bitcoin.conf -txindex=1. With this command the problem now is : Using wallet directory /Volumes/Crucial X8/bitcoin/Bitcoin/wallets which should be with wallets/main for mainnet.
- For testnet : The same with the flag -testnet. And here I got the error : Error: Config setting for -walletdir only applied on test network when in [test] section. But as we can see in config file it's well setup for each network. And the fact that mainnet doesn't read properly the wallet dir path seems to show a problem.

I don't know how can I solve this misleading configuration. I tried to do everything in testnet3 folder, but I already built a part of the testnet in the main folder. So I'm wondering if it's possible to make work my configuration.

Maybe you can have some ideas. I don't know.

I can move it if it's not in the right place ^^

Ok ! Yes totally you're right !

Thanks a lot for all your help !!!🙏🙏🙏