Help the bitcoin network by being a node.

[rarkenin]

The bandwidth graph has what units? Kilobits/sec? Kilobytes/sec? Something else?

[Coelacanth]

This is good. How many connections do you see?

[madpoet]

So I figured what the heck, I'll try this out for a while.  I waste more than that on a day's worth of coffee.  Way more

I followed the Ubuntu 13.10 instructions and they seemed to work like a champ... this is what I show now:

{
    "version" : 80500,
{
    "version" : 80500,
    "protocolversion" : 70001,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 10838,
    "timeoffset" : -1,
    "connections" : 8,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 1.00000000,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1385752126,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

So not REALLY understanding what I am doing besides lending a hand, does that look alright?

[IH-Antonio]

I'm already trying to help with 5 nodes! Great post

[auzaar]

This will be good and you can do it for free by using aws free tier, just did that took 10 minutes

$ bitcoind getinfo
{
    "version" : 80500,
    "protocolversion" : 70001,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 31723,
    "timeoffset" : 0,
    "connections" : 8,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 1.00000000,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1385783742,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

[matosha]

Run my own little site off cloud. Has joulecoin and krugercoin on it. Bitcoin takes a huge amount of space so ill have to up my hosting for it. But ya... ita definitely gona happen.

[tiaguitah]

little bump, for the new and old coiners :p

[Coelacanth]

Just launched a droplet from DigitalOcean with bitcoind. +1 node for bitcoin.

p.s : for various options to run with bitcoind follow this wiki page
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin.

[laowai80]

Looks like hosting providers will have to stock up on hard drives soon

[Morblias]

How would I go about setting something up to monitor bitcoind and if it stops restart it? For some reason my bitcoind stopped last night and I had to manually start it up. I am kind of a linux noob 

[dserrano5]

How would I go about setting something up to monitor bitcoind and if it stops restart it? For some reason my bitcoind stopped last night and I had to manually start it up. I am kind of a linux noob 

https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=5911.0 (old but probably still useful)

[Mike Hearn]

Yes, even with 512mb of RAM a node can still be very useful. Thanks for running some!

To get a feel for who/what is using your node, you can try

Code:

./bitcoind getpeerinfo|grep subver|sort|uniq -c|sort -n
      1         "subver" : "/BTCETHZ:0.8.99/",
      1         "subver" : "/BitCoinJ:0.10.3/Bitcoin Wallet:3.28/",
      1         "subver" : "/BitCoinJ:0.9/MultiBit:0.5.12/",
      1         "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.99/",
      2         "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.0/",
      3         "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.3/",
      3         "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.4/",
      4         "subver" : "",
      4         "subver" : "/BitCoinJ:0.9/MultiBit:0.5.13/",
     10         "subver" : "/BitCoinJ:0.10.1/MultiBit:0.5.14/",
     11         "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6/",
     22         "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.1/",
     24         "subver" : "/BitCoinJ:0.10.2/MultiBit:0.5.15/",
     82         "subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.5/",

So my node is mostly connected to other BitcoinD nodes, but there's a lot of multibits there too. Old MultiBits have bugs, those users should upgrade

If you do run a bitcoind, please keep it up to date! Running the latest versions keeps things healthy.

[yenom]

Little tip, start it with

Code:

screen bitcoind

You can then exit the session and leave it running.

Just created a droplet myself. tried it on CentOS first but had trouble so tried Ubuntu and it worked first time.

Code:

{
    "version" : 80500,
    "protocolversion" : 70001,
    "walletversion" : 60000,
    "balance" : 0.00000000,
    "blocks" : 108023,
    "timeoffset" : -1,
    "connections" : 8,
    "proxy" : "",
    "difficulty" : 25997.87992881,
    "testnet" : false,
    "keypoololdest" : 1386955780,
    "keypoolsize" : 101,
    "paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
    "errors" : ""
}

[RodeoX]

Thank you for running a node! I have a piece of crap Linux box at home that basically only runs a bitcoin node and TOR. It's not very exciting to look at, but I feel good contributing directly to these networks.

[zimmah]

but by having bitcoin-qt on your computer you're a node as well right?

[gweedo]

but by having bitcoin-qt on your computer you're a node as well right?

Technically yes, but what these people are doing is having servers that are a lot more open than you would do on your computer.

[Gabi]

but by having bitcoin-qt on your computer you're a node as well right?

Yes, even more useful if you keep it on 24/24

[Kupsi]

but by having bitcoin-qt on your computer you're a node as well right?

Yes, even more useful if you keep it on 24/24

...and accept incoming connections.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79808.0

[Morblias]

Don't forget to open port 8333.

Most ordinary folks should NOT be running a full node. We need full nodes that are always on, have more than 8 connections (if you have only 8 then you are part of the problem, not part of the solution), and have a high-bandwidth connection to the Internet.
So: if you've got an extra virtual machine with enough memory in a data center, then yes, please, run a full node.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1scd4z/im_running_a_full_node_and_so_should_you/cdw3lrh?context=3

[casadebitcoin]

Little tip, start it with

Code:

screen bitcoind

You can then exit the session and leave it running.

Code:

nohup

is probably the better command.

As a relative N00B does "bitcoind daemon" achive similar to nohup? I just setup bitcoind and am noticing that once I loose my SSH the bitcoind stops.

So I just started with cranking up bitcoind daemon but am not 100% sure if it keeps chugging after I close SSH.

If nohup is the way to go is the command nohup bitcoind or bitcoind nohup or drill into some directory - fyi I have bitcoind running at root since I dont use this VPS or this bitcoind for anything other than helping out seeding....