[CHALLENGE] Run A Bitcoin Node: 14 Days To 14 Merits

[NotATether]

Progress: (valid as of the creation date of this post)

Code:

Day 2:
Woodie
kuriboh (Your day 4 report is actually for day 3 - see below)

Day 8:
bayu7adi

Day 12:
oktana
Shishir99

Day 14:
SilverCryptoBullet
apogio
spiker777 (awaiting 99% verification)

Day 15+:
DYING_S0UL

If you see any error in the progress report like your name isn't listed correctly, and so on, please let me know so I can fix it.

Congratulations to DYING_S0UL, apogio, and SilverCryptoBullet for completing the challenge!

@kuriboh your progress reports will not be accepted without a screenshot or getblockchaininfo output. Please fix your report and the fixed report you submit will be considered your day 3 report.

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[Shishir99]

Day 13

[Woodie]

Day 3

Progress: 11.42% sync

[bayu7adi]

DAY 9

+20,13%

synced 92% today

[DYING_S0UL]

Congratulations to DYING_S0UL, apogio, and SilverCryptoBullet for completing the challenge!

It was fun actually. To be honest, I think more challenges like this should be brought up. 14 days ago, I didn't even knew how to run a node, or what pruning was, or what Bitcoin core was used for. I had no idea how it worked. But now I can say I learned one or two things by completing this challenge...Best of luck everyone.

Cheers,
DS 

[apogio]

NotATether I also want to thank you for this "challenge". As I said, I have been running nodes long enough. It was a fun challenge and the initiative was great in my opinion.

Many people will learn from this challenge.

I have been trying to think of ways to make sure that all the people who ran the node for 14 days will still run it from now on. I don't know how, except for sending some merit if they show you a screenshot every week. But of course this is just a suggestion.

I don't want to participate in this if you do it because it will look like I ask for this merit, which I don't. But especially for low rank users this is a great idea.

[LoyceV]

I have been trying to think of ways to make sure that all the people who ran the node for 14 days will still run it from now on. I don't know how, except for sending some merit if they show you a screenshot every week. But of course this is just a suggestion.

I can think of many reasons to run Bitcoin Core, but weekly Merit isn't one of them.

[spiker777]

Day 15 Progress:

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 511033,
  "headers": 826884,
  "bestblockhash": "0000000000000000001a3368de477cbeaf8e264d9ce3c6b6fa8a98df3e6ac733",
  "difficulty": 3007383866429.732,
  "time": 1519674907,
  "mediantime": 1519672842,
  "verificationprogress": 0.3154603860976556,
  "initialblockdownload": true,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000012a660427438a93262aa978",
  "size_on_disk": 92940377878,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 422935,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 99999547392,
  "warnings": ""
}

DAY 3: BITCOIN CORE DOWNLOAD = 6.7%

Welcome onboard man. but It would be better if you can past your "GetblockchainInfo" code here also. Or a Screenshot.
You can easily get the code from Console in "windows" drop down menue.

[apogio]

I have been trying to think of ways to make sure that all the people who ran the node for 14 days will still run it from now on. I don't know how, except for sending some merit if they show you a screenshot every week. But of course this is just a suggestion.

I can think of many reasons to run Bitcoin Core, but weekly Merit isn't one of them.

Sure... It's a hard exercise but I guess if people have taken the challenge and have ran Core for 14 days, that they will not stop it now just because the merit has been sent.

[SilverCryptoBullet]

Congratulations to DYING_S0UL, apogio, and SilverCryptoBullet for completing the challenge!

Thank you for hosting it and rewarding me.

[oktana]

I doubt it has pruned at all because at first I set it to 20GB, then 400GB, and currently 500GB.

Why? You'll have all the drawbacks of pruning (like not being able to rescan or import), without much of the benefits (half a TB less disk consumption).

I wanted to change it but just saw the message that deactivating pruning I will have to download the whole blockchain again.


DAY 13
Barely any progress due to internet challenges and the download seems slower, but I'd see how far I can get today.

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 774171,
  "headers": 826959,
  "bestblockhash": "000000000000000000058a0bef25fc422191eeba0728fb3818e4040d6592d5d0",
  "difficulty": 39350942467772.63,
  "time": 1674991419,
  "mediantime": 1674989527,
  "verificationprogress": 0.8370202679655214,
  "initialblockdownload": true,
  "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000003edffa3e8082e018508ec010",
  "size_on_disk": 443067206829,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 400915,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 499999834112,
  "warnings": ""
}

[LoyceV]

I wanted to change it but just saw the message that deactivating pruning I will have to download the whole blockchain again.

That is the case if the blockchain actually was pruned. Assuming you still have all the blocks, that shouldn't be necessary. I've never tested disabling pruning before it's pruning though.

[oktana]

I wanted to change it but just saw the message that deactivating pruning I will have to download the whole blockchain again.

That is the case if the blockchain actually was pruned. Assuming you still have all the blocks, that shouldn't be necessary. I've never tested disabling pruning before it's pruning though.

That was exactly what I thought. As long as I have all the blocks, I should be able to take it out. Remember I mentioned that I had been adjusting the pruning settings the whole time. Or is it possible that the pruning starts even before the storage is up to the amount you had set?

[LoyceV]

That was exactly what I thought.

Let's find out I've started a new Bitcoin Core sync, pruned to 200 GB. I'll let it run until let's say 2010. Then I'll turn off pruning.

Update: after disabling pruning and restarting Bitcoin Core, it continued the sync where it was. So disabling pruning should work, as long as you still have all blocks. Maybe you can check if you have blk00000.dat in your blocks directory.

[oktana]

That was exactly what I thought.

Let's find out I've started a new Bitcoin Core sync, pruned to 200 GB. I'll let it run until let's say 2010. Then I'll turn off pruning.

Update: after disabling pruning and restarting Bitcoin Core, it continued the sync where it was. So disabling pruning should work, as long as you still have all blocks. Maybe you can check if you have blk00000.dat in your blocks directory.

Damn. It already pruned then. I just checked and the first block is blk00458.dat. But I don’t understand how that is possible because for sure I know that I kept on adjusting it even before it got closed to the pruning I set. This is definitely why it says it’ll cost me redownloading it.

[kuriboh]

Progress: (valid as of the creation date of this post)

Code:

Day 2:
Woodie
kuriboh (Your day 4 report is actually for day 3 - see below)

@kuriboh your progress reports will not be accepted without a screenshot or getblockchaininfo output. Please fix your report and the fixed report you submit will be considered your day 3 report.

No problem; I will give you a screenshot next time.  I left with the screenshot, but it wasn't given because I was far from the laptop.  I'll post a screenshot later, no problem.

[kuriboh]

Day 03:

[Elissa~sH]

I want to do it. Can I do it now? A PC has 1TB HDD. Can I start it now? Please tell me. NotATether

[NotATether]

I want to do it. Can I do it now? A PC has 1TB HDD. Can I start it now? Please tell me. NotATether

Unless otherwise stated in the OP, this challenge is open to everyone and especially newbies.

[Shishir99]

Day 14