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

[Woodie]

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Day 14

Progress: 100.00% sync

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[LoyceV]

how can I speed up this progress any suggestion?

Find the bottleneck, improve that. If you're getting only 0.08% per hour at the oldest blocks, chances are it will get even slower later.

From my own experience what makes this process faster:

• Run it in pruned mode

Pruning doesn't make the IBD faster.

Try restarting Bitcoin core.

Restarting does not make the IBD faster.

[Elissa~sH]

Day 4:

[N.O]

My Day: 6 Progress..... 42.52%

[Woodie]

From my own experience what makes this process faster:

• Run it in pruned mode

Pruning doesn't make the IBD faster.

I am pretty sure pruning is meant to help save disk space or run a node on limited disk space...

and probably the syncing gets faster with the use of a downloaded pruned blockchain as you did with your earlier project of the RDP/VPS

when moving from 2gb ram to a 4, 16gb ram machine etc which is how I got to this conclusion but thanks for pointing it out  

**NB: Not an expert on this topic, but experienced & researched info**

[NotATether]

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

Code:

Day 1:
Zwei
Hanadawa

Day 3:
Adiljutt156

Day 4:
Elissa~sH

Day 6:
N.O
Negotiation

Day 10:
sunnybwoy

Day 12:
kuriboh (please post your day 12 progress report)

Day 14:
Woodie

Day 15+:
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 Woodie for completing the challenge!

I've downloaded Bitcoin Core. Sorry I didn't screenshot the progress. Can I start today? And are there any mistakes I need to fix in this challenge?

Your screenshot is fine, you can submit screenshots or command-line output, but if you chose to submit command-line (terminal) output, it must be the contents of bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo. I do not accept debug.log output.

[kuriboh]

Day 12:

[Adiljutt156]

From my own experience what makes this process faster:

• Good internet connection
• Storage type being used i.e SSD>HDD
• Decent amount of ram, and anything above 8gb ram should work well
• Run it in pruned mode
• Run it 24/7 to make up for any lost time

Thanks Woodie for this info

If I compare your guidance I have a good internet connection and also I have SSD storage type but have low ram only 4 GB. Run in Pruned mode is also right and last thing I run this node maximum 10 to 12 hours

Anyways, one day it will complete and synced 100%

You don't need to use your phone camera for this task mate...

could you try using a screenshot software for a cleaner and clearer picture and capture the full window of the Bitcoin node, btw snipping tool is free on Windows..good luck  

Thanks for also this now I am using this tool for taking picture next time


Day 4:

[LoyceV]

I have a good internet connection and also I have SSD storage type but have low ram only 4 GB.

If at all possible: buy more RAM. RAM is quite cheap, and if your mainboard supports it, upgrading to 8 or 16 GB is going to make a very large difference. Not only for Bitcoin Core, but it will most likely improve your entire computer experience.
If you read back a few pages, you'll see my experience with 8 GB RAM. That's already not enough to fit chainstate, and lead to writing several TB of data to my disk. With 4 GB, it's going to get very slow later on. Check how large your chainstate directory is now. It's going to be 11 GB at the end.

[Hanadawa]

DAY 2

Your screenshot is fine, you can submit screenshots or command-line output, but if you chose to submit command-line (terminal) output, it must be the contents of bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo. I do not accept debug.log output.

Thank you very much sir! I will choose screenshots to show my progress. Please correct me if I made a mistake.

[spiker777]

Day 24 Progress:

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 783496,
  "headers": 828608,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000000000003788c556139dc81a75095d272ed00179316cfcce9f6d9",
  "difficulty": 46843400286276.55,
  "time": 1680367880,
  "mediantime": 1680365616,
  "verificationprogress": 0.8526057576369666,
  "initialblockdownload": true,
  "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000044512f40631add3a54914a21",
  "size_on_disk": 92366807699,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 721586,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 99999547392,
  "warnings": ""
}

[Zwei]

DAY 2

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 451420,
  "headers": 469055,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000000000106a56aafbb33c93f5c94c979bce54df4c8281c88383b6e",
  "difficulty": 392963262344.3704,
  "time": 1486154660,
  "mediantime": 1486152298,
  "verificationprogress": 0.2010503460791424,
  "initialblockdownload": true,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000003cb28e2e6843b2b625c8de",
  "size_on_disk": 133155476735,
  "pruned": false,
  "warnings": ""
}

[sunnybwoy]

Day 11

[rojan]

Day 1

[Elissa~sH]

Day 5:

[Negotiation]

Day 7:

[kuriboh]

Day 13:

[N.O]

My Day: 7 Progress..... 52.08%

[Adiljutt156]

If at all possible: buy more RAM. RAM is quite cheap, and if your mainboard supports it, upgrading to 8 or 16 GB is going to make a very large difference. Not only for Bitcoin Core, but it will most likely improve your entire computer experience.
If you read back a few pages, you'll see my experience with 8 GB RAM. That's already not enough to fit chainstate, and lead to writing several TB of data to my disk. With 4 GB, it's going to get very slow later on. Check how large your chainstate directory is now. It's going to be 11 GB at the end.

Thanks LoyceV I am trying to increase RAM storage 8GB to 16GB and currently I have only 4 GB that's why my entire computer and also Bitcoin Core progressive procedure is slow now little bit increase 0.08% to 0.63% due to deleting some unnecessary file and application from computer.


Day 5

[NotATether]

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

Code:

Day 1:
rojan

Day 2:
Zwei
Hanadawa

Day 5:
Elissa~sH
Adiljutt156

Day 7:
N.O
Negotiation

Day 11:
sunnybwoy

Day 13:
kuriboh

Day 15+:
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.