Hi Y'all,

I think the main point has been missed, it may be that regular home computers can no longer run a full bitcoin node. So much for a public, democratic, none elitist,  de-centralised distribution scheme!

My Machine has pretty powerful duel core 64 bit CPU;

  Model Name:   MacBook Air
  Model Identifier:   MacBookAir5,2
  Processor Name:   Intel Core i5
  Processor Speed:   1,8 GHz
  Number of Processors:   1
  Total Number of Cores:   2
  L2 Cache (per Core):   256 KB
  L3 Cache:   3 MB
  Memory:   4 GB

When Satoshi Nakamoto started Bitcoin he mined his first coins (lots of them) on a home PC, I think it should be still possible to run a full node on my machine.

There are no capacity issues with CPU / RAM / Network bandwidth @ 65Mps.

I tried Bitcoind twice on my Raspberry PI2 and failed. I tried Bitcoin-QT twice on my laptop and failed, once using a 64GB SD card and once with an external USB3 SDD.

On a healthy laptop surly I should be able to download and install the wallet software and let it synchronise. I don't mind it takes a few days running 24/7 but to fail after many weeks, still being 13 weeks from current is unacceptable.

I sent my crash report to apple and GitHub...

G*

Hi y'all,

Thanks so much for your suggestions and observations. My problem is bigger now, after weeks of downloading and verifying I have a check sum error in my data base;

2016-02-05 15:56:26 Keys: 101 plaintext, 0 encrypted, 101 w/ metadata, 101 total
2016-02-05 15:56:26  wallet                   10ms
2016-02-05 15:56:26 init message: Activating best chain...
2016-02-05 15:57:49 UpdateTip: new best=00000000000000000d710f3876a7b235aab173042cfe77ff7d0d1972bc279465  height=382098  log2_work=83.560277  tx=91028107  date=2015-11-05 01:57:40 progress=0.917517  cache=42.9MiB(4399tx)
2016-02-05 15:58:49 LevelDB read failure: Corruption: block checksum mismatch
2016-02-05 15:58:49 Corruption: block checksum mismatch
2016-02-05 15:58:56 Error reading from database: Database corrupted
2016-02-05 21:20:12

So 57GB later, I'm drifting down shit creek without a paddle!

DiskUtil checks out 100%, SDD is OK.

I have been trying to run a full node on a Raspberry PI2, this SDD/blockchain was going to boot strap it as it would not load the whole blockchain native on an HCSD card.

I'm beginning to wonder if this tech is stable, scalable and intended for domestic HW?

very disillusioned...

G*

Hello,

Using Bitcoin-QT 11.2 (64 bit) on a Macbook air (I3 quad  core 1.8Ghz / 4GM RAM). I have got to week 19 (block 374185) and Bitcoin-QT appears to only want to synchronise 1 week per day now! I have already been running none stop for over two weeks to get this far. I looks like there are sometimes 1 peer in and 8 out, my block chain is 52.9 GB, The CPU is around 15% on Bitcoin-QT? Any advice on how to speed this up will be much appreciated.

Hey,

I have been syncing for 5 days now and I'm still only at 30GB. Looks like I now get 3 GB a day? The whole blockchain is 60GB and growing...

I run Bitcoin Core version v0.11.0 (64-bit) on OS X 10.10.5

My CPU's are cold, there's very little memory pressure...

Process name    CPU% CPU Time         Threads
Bitcoin Core   38,2   12:44:25,86   22   

My network traffic has huge periods of inactivity, I tried -addnode with 20 peers from blockchain.info/peers but can't get more than 8 outbound and 1 or 2 inbound connections?

I have say this is unworkable, running a full node is too much hassle. Does any one else have these problems?

Hi Knightdk,

Thanks for your reply. The RPI2 doesn't crash or reboot, the bitcoind daemon crashes every 20 minutes. I read that I actually need 2GB of RAM as a minimum, I think that's my problem with the initial load as the RPI2 only has 1GB. Perhaps once the block chain is loaded it can maintain the updates... I will try a side load and report back.

Hello,

I'm new to the forum and to Bitcoin mining but I have 30 years experience of mainframe computing behind me (MVS/zOS/USS) so I know how things are supposed to happen .

I decided to run a full node on a Raspberry PI2 (Raspian) using Bitcoin core v100100. I understand there is a lot of work to do handling the blockchain now that it is +30GB but I don't understand why the daemon keeps crashing, like every 20 minutes?

I start it like this bitcoind -daemon -disablewallet -dbcache=50, is there something missing here ?

Thanks