Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 Released

[achow101]

In Window > Information it only shows me the directory where the blockchain is downloaded, but the wallet.dat file is not there. I haven't found a Bitcoin folder in the /user/Appdata/Roaming folder where the wallet.dat is usually stored. It seems strange to me as I searched for wallet.dat in the whole C drive and only wallet.dat of Electrum is in /user/Appdata/Roaming. Bitcoin core doesn't show up.

Wallets are stored in the datadir (i.e. where the blockchain is downloaded) unless you specified it to go somewhere else with -walletdir. It should be in <datadir>/wallets. You can also look at the debug.log file. There should be a line that looks like

Code:

2020-01-07T19:00:30Z BerkeleyEnvironment::Open: LogDir=<datadir>/wallets/database ErrorFile=<datadir>/wallets/db.log

The path to the directory containing your wallet file will be everything before /database and /db.log

[tuanbct]

I realized that I chose another drive to store the blockchain and the wallet.dat is also in there Thank you for your help!

Hi everyone,

In the latest version of Bitcoin Core ver. 0.20 there seems to be no Bitcoin folder in the C:\Users\ABC\AppData\Roaming - hence wallet.dat is not stored in there.



Does anyone have experience with this and knows where it's now stored please?

It didn't change. Defaults like these don't just change, especially if there was nothing wrong with them.

You probably chose a different datadir. Go to Window > Information and it will list the datadir path in that window.

[Raja Singa]

I realized that I chose another drive to store the blockchain and the wallet.dat is also in there Thank you for your help!

Hi everyone,

In the latest version of Bitcoin Core ver. 0.20 there seems to be no Bitcoin folder in the C:\Users\ABC\AppData\Roaming - hence wallet.dat is not stored in there.



Does anyone have experience with this and knows where it's now stored please?

It didn't change. Defaults like these don't just change, especially if there was nothing wrong with them.

You probably chose a different datadir. Go to Window > Information and it will list the datadir path in that window.

I think it's better to save in Drive D or E. Don't save the system, so when the PC is installed there is no need to re-synchronize.  I think this will save your time and internet data. I'm synchronizing my wallet, and it hasn't finished until now.
Because if I synchronize my Bitcoin wallet, I have to stop all other work. Because the internet source is drained for wallet sync. This is an impressive struggle for the core wallet.

[o_solo_miner]

What about the issue with solo mining on core 0.20.0 as listed here:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/19182

At the moment no one can solo mine if he wan't to.

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EDIT:

It is related to the removed coinbase flags, wich cause this problem in cgminer as well as ckpool.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/9aedabe67eedfee9c94c6a50962f11348eb99bca

so, a new cgminer/ckpool version wich address this is necessary if core 0.20.0 will be used.

I did not tested bfg-miner, but leave that to lukejr.

thanks for your attention

[dicasimportantes]

Does my computer support? It is only DualCore

[vapourminer]

Does my computer support? It is only DualCore

yes. a single core will do actually. even raspberry pis can run core, and i believe a lot of old notebooks are used for local casual nodes as they use less power than desktops, but more than a rpi of course. just need about 500 gb storage if you want the full blockchain (recommended), less if you run pruned.

this seems a bit out of date but read here:
https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#what-is-a-full-node

[achow101]

0.20.1 has been released