Hi, yes it is indeed an old system, but enough to act as a full node. Not mining though lol
Aware of ; and sleep.
Thanks
achow101 and seoincorporation for the clarifications.
I tried to give you both sMerits but I don't have any

I had kept the system off for some time to conduct a test.
I just ran and I am 147 blocks behind.

I tried to load my wallet and I got the prompt back within a second. The command just ran as it should, no delays.
Not sure whether it is because earlier my node was lagging behind a lot.

There were no 'rescanning' messages seen, atleast not now.

Pardon my ignorance but what does 'the wallet just needs to be in sync with the node' mean?
Isn't that the same as having the blocks current, because the wallet actually fetches info from my node.

Thanks.

Broken LLM enters the room..
I think what he meant was that he thought he didn't mine any but turns out his computer did, or that's what he thinks atleast..  And now he thinks he has some discovered some text/strings that he has found on his old safely stored computer that he thinks he can sign and get the coins. That's what I gather from his post. Or maybe my first line.

Do you mean the delay can only be minimized / eliminated if the node is always current and fully synced? If I stop bitcoin daemon and come back after a week, the wallet loading will take more than expected?

Thank you for your response.

Well, nothing. I know it is expected. I am saying the delay because of loadwallet is a hindrance since I want to run the walletpassphrase command.



I ran a benchmark again as per your enquiry.

The  setKeyPool.size() message appears exactly around the timestamp when I get my prompt back. So when the system is rebooted, it takes around 8 to 9 minutes. This time I did a bitcoin-cli stop and re-ran the daemon and the attempt to load the wallet took 4.5 minutes. That's when the prompt was returned back and the setKeyPool.size() message was echoed back.

I had already done that. I used bitcoin-cli, but will try zypwallet as per your recommendation.


Yes I am aware and was looking for an option for that since I have already the raw transaction.
So mempool.space  is what I tried after I tried quicknode.com but they ( quicknode.com ) are so shameless - they wanted my credit card number and wanted to conduct KYC for using testnet!

I will try this https://www.coinsdo.com/en/free-rpc-nodes
Publicly usable RPC nodes are rare! I  think there should be an option to disallow / filter / locking up certain commands like looking up the private key - then maybe people might let others use their endpoints.

I have this strange problem and would like to know if any of you too has or had encountered the same:
When I fire in console A:


The bitcoind (Daemon console) running on console B says
 [walletname] Wallet completed loading in            2368ms

BUT
The command which I fired on console A does not return back immediately. It makes me wait for easily around 8 to 9 minutes before giving me my prompt back. I need to run
the command as well after that. But it takes a lot of time and makes me wait. Pressing Ctrl+C renders the loadwallet attempt useless and I have to stop the daemon and restart it and again fire the loadwallet command. The wallet has only 8-10 BTC addresses still it returns back the CLI prompt very slowly. OI am using the latest btc daemon and tools. Any advise how to solve this?

Hi I have tried --help. That was the first thing I did. It does not display anything. I have clean installed it on a *nix box - not portable version and I got it working using CLI. I still feel bitcoin-cli is a faster option. Wish there was a way to use electrum's RPC testnet  URL with bitcon-cli. Thanks

I am using the portable version, not sure why it does not provide me with cmdline option - only gives a console through the GUI.

Okay found this - https://mempool.space/testnet/docs/api/rest#post-transaction
More full RPC open nodes are welcome - Thanks.

Is it possible to send testnet coins to someone without running a testnet full node yourself BUT using bitcoin-cli?
I am wondering if there are any public RPC nodes (open) that would let me broadcast a transaction / send coins.
I tried some urls from electrum's list and 1ml.com but no luck. Is what I need possible? I need a command-line solution that I can use from my shell. I have an address with coins and the private key. Thanks.

I might have kept it larger than what the files were pruned at so maybe that's why  I was getting an inconsistency error.
BTW LoyceV,  I am using Greg Tonoski's link since yours is empty

What was the the prune= set to when you pruned it?

What do you mean? What illegal activity are you accusing me of? I asked the OP to DM me. You can ask OP about our DMs. Stop flexing your rights when you do not know what's happening.  Easy to call people scammers.. for all we know you are the biggest one!

Send me a PM.

Poloniex did an exit scam right before they were being bought by CIRCLE in 2019. They put up a notice stating that from some X month in the future, KYC would become mandatory for everyone and non-compliant users would not be able to trade any further but would be able to withdraw at least. Like me, thousands of  users decided to wait and just stop trading when the date arrived and safely at least withdraw.. Poloniex changed their tune entirely suddenly and even *edited that announcement* They entirely removed that statement that they would allow withdrawals.

That day many realised that even regulated exchanges are not safe. Even the ones that tried KYC were not able to get through. Lots of users had not used their real names during registration - how does Poloniex expect a user to get a passport that states he is John EffsyourwifeDickman ??



More here https://cointelegraph.com/news/poloniex-is-officially-in-trouble-after-ignoring-hoards-of-complaining-customers


Polo is a thief.. Usee any and every chance to DDoS them!! They are thieves!!

Thank you for your response, but the query is not regarding privacy of coins or during transfer.




Lol, there are exchanges on darknet that are outright claiming to be only for criminals. Also, I never said  all darknet exchanges are created to help criminals, but all darknet exchanges - or any exchange for that matter if it does not conduct KYC IS automatically assumed to be aiding criminal enterprises by law enforcements of most countries. Not sure in which conuntry you live in, but an unregulated exchange - buried deep under onion rings or out in your face IS considered to be an illegal shop if it does not conduct KYC.

My query was not about what they do but how they get customers.

This crashed my brain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution

So tried a video here and it disintegrated my brain matter -  https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability/modeling-distributions-of-data/more-on-normal-distributions/v/introduction-to-the-normal-distribution

If you have a better, crisp, simplified explanation of what Gaussian distribution is please post it. Thank you.

Back then in 2009 - 2010 I had lots at my disposal. I was using servers to create rainbow tables to crack password hashes. It was not laziness. I took interest when bitcoin was in the news in 2009 first, could not get the miner started, maybe the windows release did not run on my XP64 system. Then bitcoin was out of the news cycle. So didn't look back at it until 2011. Really sucks for those who were awake, aware and still cold not solve a single block!!
Even with 50 BTC - one block most of us would have been satisfied, provided the coins were still unspent and keys were still accessible now.

I heard it somewhere that the only thing worse than not having is to have it and then lose it. So I guess we all who never had it are possibly in a better zone. One of the top 10 regrets of our lives.

Thank you everyone for your inputs.