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

[kuriboh]

DAY: 6

[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

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

Thanks for giving me the opportunity. Here I am newbie; Please tell me how to submit my reports. Others with rank accounts show reports as photos when they submit, but they don't show pictures when I submit my reports. What can I do now?

[spiker777]

Day 19 and 20:

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 684230,
  "headers": 827675,
  "bestblockhash": "0000000000000000000722bceb2bcfb26170844a7d94af33393a7fe358123277",
  "difficulty": 25046487590083.27,
  "time": 1621452150,
  "mediantime": 1621448177,
  "verificationprogress": 0.6713433496322224,
  "initialblockdownload": true,
  "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000001da127fd979ec4e396fb87a7",
  "size_on_disk": 92343793171,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 619312,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 99999547392,
  "warnings": ""
}

Progress: 67%

[NotATether]

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

Code:

Day 4:
sunnybwoy

Day 6:
kuriboh

Day 8:
Woodie

Day 14:
bayu7adi

Day 15+:
oktana (awaiting 99% verification)
spiker777 (awaiting 99% verification)

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 bayu7adi for completing the challenge!

Thanks for giving me the opportunity. Here I am newbie; Please tell me how to submit my reports. Others with rank accounts show reports as photos when they submit, but they don't show pictures when I submit my reports. What can I do now?

You can upload the screenshot to talkimg.com and link to it here.

[Woodie]

Done Done Done


Day 9

Progress: 100.00% sync

[Negotiation]

Day 1

Progress: 00.00% sync



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Hi, @NotATether I'm trying this, need any customization or change settings?

[oktana]

DAY 17!

Phew! This was a wild one. Unfortunately, I can’t tell the exact weight of this because I pruned it (I wish I knew better). But it was about 536 GB (from data usage) which cost me around $55 because I used mobile data as WiFi hasn’t been available. It definitely feels good to have done this.

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 827700,
  "headers": 827705,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000000000002d158c986d6e764d4c7c9bf5c6a341e229402726728d5",
  "difficulty": 70343519904866.8,
  "time": 1706390977,
  "mediantime": 1706388707,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999829686926974,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000677940e0ca157c2d0dbdc9c4",
  "size_on_disk": 498243446233,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 455288,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 499999834112,
  "warnings": ""
}

[Gaza13]

Note that this challenge is still open for anybody who meets the requirements in the OP.

Sir, I want to take part in your challenge, but I can't provide a screenshot of the progress from the first time or when I first started it, but I have proof, I posted it on my local forum by providing a screenshot of the progress of around 37.82% on January 19, 2024 at 07 :31:19.

Before posting it on my local thread with progress of 37.82% it took me 3 days, meaning I started progress starting on January 16 2024, and I completed 100% perfect progress on January 25 2024 at 05:07:06. That means in total it took me 9 days for everything to be perfect.

this is my local thread
disini

Please guide me, sir, what steps should I take to be able to take part in this challenge?

[NotATether]

Sir, I want to take part in your challenge, but I can't provide a screenshot of the progress from the first time or when I first started it, but I have proof, I posted it on my local forum by providing a screenshot of the progress of around 37.82% on January 19, 2024 at 07 :31:19.

Before posting it on my local thread with progress of 37.82% it took me 3 days, meaning I started progress starting on January 16 2024, and I completed 100% perfect progress on January 25 2024 at 05:07:06. That means in total it took me 9 days for everything to be perfect.

this is my local thread
disini

Please guide me, sir, what steps should I take to be able to take part in this challenge?

The challenge runes for 14 days, therefore when you enter this challenge your count will start from day 1.

Just like for the rest of the participants.

[N.O]

I have done 1st day or not

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/28/kjSkD.jpeg

[NotATether]

I have done 1st day or not

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/28/kjSkD.jpeg

Yes, just keep posting pictures of your node like this every day until two weeks pass.

[kuriboh]

Day 7:

[DYING_S0UL]

I'm trying this, need any customization or change settings?

You can just leave it on DEFAULT setting. Make sure you are running the node on mainnet. If you are limited by storage you can change the pruning settings. By default it's set at 2GB. If you have lot of storage you may increase it by 10,50,100GB, as you want. For me, I had only 70GB free storage, so I kept it default.

[spiker777]

Day 21 Progress:

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 705922,
  "headers": 827828,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000000000004013e596aaa58a9228dbf8a70931d2ffa7c762a02b1a3",
  "difficulty": 20082460130830.84,
  "time": 1634774365,
  "mediantime": 1634771852,
  "verificationprogress": 0.7090750194110483,
  "initialblockdownload": true,
  "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000002301f68f3340374d2e0e597a",
  "size_on_disk": 92953060786,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 642247,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 99999547392,
  "warnings": ""
}

[Cricktor]

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/28/kjSkD.jpeg

Please, post your images with proper BBcode tags like [img]https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/28/kjSkD.jpeg[/img] then it will be later better visible when your account matures or a non-newbie account cites your image link like this:

[N.O]

Yes, just keep posting pictures of your node like this every day until two weeks pass.

Okay!!!!

I have a question with you @NotATether

If my node synced 100% before 14 days then it will be acceptable or not?

because I see many users node completed in less then 14 days that's why I ask this question

Please, post your images with proper BBcode tags like [img]https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/01/28/kjSkD.jpeg[/img] then it will be later better visible when your account matures or a non-newbie account cites your image link like this:

Ohhh!!!

Thanks for catching my mistake

Next time I remember this @Cricktor

[DYING_S0UL]

Yes, just keep posting pictures of your node like this every day until two weeks pass.

If my node synced 100% before 14 days then it will be acceptable or not?

because I see many users node completed in less then 14 days that's why I ask this question

You have to run it for 14 days and must have 100% sync in order to complete this challenge. It doesn't matter if you can get 100% sync within 1 or 2 days. You have to run it for 14 days no matter what. This is the first condition. The second condition is 100% sync. It doesn't matter if it takes 20,30,40 days to sync. You must fulfill the minimum 99% sync (close to verifying the full blockchain).

[Negotiation]

Day 2:

I'm trying this, need any customization or change settings?

You can just leave it on DEFAULT setting. Make sure you are running the node on mainnet. If you are limited by storage you can change the pruning settings. By default it's set at 2GB. If you have lot of storage you may increase it by 10,50,100GB, as you want. For me, I had only 70GB free storage, so I kept it default.

900GB free my HDD drive, 150GB SSD drive space is free now, storage is not the problem.
thanks.

[DYING_S0UL]

900GB free my HDD drive, 150GB SSD drive space is free now, storage is not the problem.
thanks.

It's recommend to use SSD for downloading and verifying the Bitcoin blockchain. Using HDD will be slower compared to SSD. Another thing, if you download the whole blockchain without pruning, it'll take up to +544 GB of storage, remember that. But if use pruning option. For example, lets imagine you have set it at 50GB, so after it downloads 50GB it will start to remove/erase/discard older blockchain data and add newer blockchain data. As the download progresses, maintaining 50GB, saving storage (If I'm correct).

[LoyceV]

need any customization or change settings?

900GB free my HDD drive, 150GB SSD drive space is free now

That's similar to my setup. If you save the full blocks directory on HDD, your download gets much faster if you symlink your chainstate directory to your SSD.