🔥 Whale.io [CHALLENGE] Run A Bitcoin Node: 14 Days To 14 Merits

[bitcoin_mining]

Day: 14
{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 893198,
  "headers": 893198,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000000000000951a25542e8661be2786c7b99e6a86dfe82cea886914",
  "difficulty": 123234387977050.9,
  "time": 1745117519,
  "mediantime": 1745113382,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999962835878378,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000bd371c0b8ed529c717d40c7e",
  "size_on_disk": 1900950756,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 892176,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 1999634432,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}
Successfully complete

[Tmoonz]

Day:14
{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 876556,
  "headers": 876556,
  "bestblockhash": "0000000000000000000225c96a32025d22cc95d67896110fb4d0dba654557b7f",
  "difficulty": 10863363754567.2,
  "time": 1745746222,
  "mediantime": 1745730771,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999995183668761,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000a1e2b8d7187ae249bf18345c",
  "size_on_disk": 1879222037,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 867543,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 1999645532,
  "warnings": ""
}
Challenge completed

[Mahiyammahi]

Day 7 :

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 894074,
  "headers": 894074,
  "bestblockhash": "000000000000000000020e376e6297ab7b31ffc97df66334394a60d43abca750",
  "difficulty": 123234387977050.9,
  "time": 1745679712,
  "mediantime": 1745677369,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999944983655321,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000beb6a484f8c68ec48d391956",
  "size_on_disk": 19961803514,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 883354,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 19999490048,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}

[BitBakerr1]

Day: 5

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 183068,
  "headers": 893755,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000009c150cb3d775a9d7bd7a2c12be01cff0dbd44d63a2635b89f34",
  "bits": "1a0a8b5f",
  "target": "0000000000000a8b5f0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "difficulty": 1591074.961847305,
  "time": 1338869540,
  "mediantime": 1338866085,
  "verificationprogress": 0.003163622021605537,
  "initialblockdownload": true,
  "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000012af18a425babd861e",
  "size_on_disk": 1839432180,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 0,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 1999634432,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}

[Litzki1990]

Day: 14
{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 893645,
  "headers": 893645,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000000000000daefe8759230c297b0b44ea8c22bef26187336d6b9c2",
  "difficulty": 123234387977050.9,
  "time": 1745415994,
  "mediantime": 1745411915,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999984722499439,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000bdfad106e1d2f87d0775337c",
  "size_on_disk": 1911903654,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 892784,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 1999634432,
  "warnings": ""
}
Completed.

[Hardyrobust]

Day 3

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 3669,
  "headers": 894091,
  "bestblockhash": "000000002bdb1378541fe953948bfc3d57a9729ae391bd9cf5502e9e0131d92c",
  "difficulty": 1,
  "time": 1234213495,
  "mediantime": 1234210499,
  "verificationprogress": 3.085253831059058e-06,
  "initialblockdownload": true,
  "chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000e560e560e56",
  "size_on_disk": 1013397,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 0,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 1999634432,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}

[alegotardo]

Day 13

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 894098,
  "headers": 894098,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000000000001ba71cc63909cf63ad8b9186e803c57306738692b0c97",
  "bits": "170248b6",
  "target": "0000000000000000000248b60000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "difficulty": 123234387977050.9,
  "time": 1745699059,
  "mediantime": 1745696062,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999951171808036,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000bec1268148d42f57c50ac586",
  "size_on_disk": 926380774,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 893631,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 999292928,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}

[mikel_012]

Day 11:

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 894117,
  "headers": 894117,
  "bestblockhash": "000000000000000000004a075645dc6277439b8d06db8249fcfa9ff23940206d",
  "difficulty": 123234387977050.9,
  "time": 1745714246,
  "mediantime": 1745707989,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999971955076632,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000bec97813b2def921a690c32c",
  "size_on_disk": 1899242910,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 893171,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 1999634432,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}

[Cossyblack]

DAY: 15   
{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 183486,
  "headers": 893756,
  "bestblockhash": "0000000000000189d4ead2bbb1cfb72993fb7ba59cc9de805ce568c2fd9dd835",
  "bits": "1a0a98d6",
  "target": "0000000000000a98d60000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "difficulty": 1583177.847444009,
  "time": 1339112712,
  "mediantime": 1339107991,
  "verificationprogress": 0.003238355150094527,
  "initialblockdownload": true,
  "chainwork": "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000012d6b93691ce9d475d",
  "size_on_disk": 1863681124,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 0,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 1999634432,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}

[Hardyrobust]

Day 4

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 10611,
  "headers": 894142,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000d4b5beb64a1036fa000a93a8163cee50331072436e28d826212502cb",
  "difficulty": 1,
  "time": 1239487535,
  "mediantime": 1239483813,
  "verificationprogress": 8.863665699140468e-06,
  "initialblockdownload": true,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000297429742974",
  "size_on_disk": 2951943,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 0,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 1999634432,
  "warnings": [
  ]

[NotATether]

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

Code:

Day 3:
letteredhub

Day 4:
Hardyrobust

Day 5:
Yablee0
BitBakerr1
Nightwatchmare

Day 7:
Mahiyammahi

Day 11:
Pablo-wood
mikel_012

Day 12:
Sipurba

Day 13:
alegotardo

Day 14:
Tmoonz
Barikui1 (awaiting 99% synced)
Lembo69 (awaiting 99% synced)
bitcoin_mining
Litzki1990

Day 15+:
Cgrexp
Zackz5000
KyoFi
Cossyblack (awaiting 99% synced)

Legend:

†Indicates a bitcoin node failure or some other reason which I have been made aware of. Members who are absent for too long will be removed without notice and will have to start over if they want to rejoin.

*Indicates a person who has not submitted a report for a long time. Please do so immediately to avoid getting removed without notice.

#Indicates a person whose report was not processed because it is incorrect. Usually this is because you misnumbered your days. Please fix your report as soon as possible.

Report generation is semi-automated now, so 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.

Please do not quote this post when you type your status reports. It makes compiling this list slightly harder.

If you don't meet the minimum rank requirements, your post will be ignored.

Congratulations to the following users for completing the challenge!

Cgrexp
Zackz5000
KyoFi
bitcoin_mining
Litzki1990
Tmoonz

Check out the new Lightning Network Quest -  earn merits and sats for running a Lightning node.

[Sipurba]

Day 13

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 894178,
  "headers": 894178,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000000000000f50cc8e3b491da8bca6b97f77a44938de668c5ea2515",
  "difficulty": 123234387977050.9,
  "time": 1745758903,
  "mediantime": 1745753414,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999964695445543,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000bee42d1fa9019bed29c5ae26",
  "size_on_disk": 3905269835,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 892113,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 3999268864,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}

[Mahiyammahi]

Day 8 :

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 894191,
  "headers": 894191,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000000000001e32ba2227d88e84d25142d6f6f9828ee5adde895c584",
  "difficulty": 123234387977050.9,
  "time": 1745769738,
  "mediantime": 1745764723,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999998354028049,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000bee9de32ff08fd923d5740c0",
  "size_on_disk": 19887661164,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 883526,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 19999490048,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}

[alegotardo]

Day 14

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 894204,
  "headers": 894204,
  "bestblockhash": "00000000000000000001b67c31aa7564aba9e514f4dc9ec4daf4f9d064db89b1",
  "bits": "170248b6",
  "target": "0000000000000000000248b60000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
  "difficulty": 123234387977050.9,
  "time": 1745776608,
  "mediantime": 1745773000,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999980334339816,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000beef8f4655105f3750e8d35a",
  "size_on_disk": 833697848,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 893868,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 999292928,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}

[BitBakerr1]

Day: 6
   
{
"chain": "main",
"blocks": 160611,
"headers": 893754,
"bestblockhash": "0000000000000e1d23b64372a66160bd89c4cba0a6c6a2d6c9c2db37fbd29a08",
"difficulty": 1159929.497224385,
"time": 1325695068,
"mediantime": 1325693934,
"verificationprogress": 0.00177410972232342,
"initialblockdownload": true,
"chainwork": "00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000af9462b181b240b14",
"size_on_disk": 989214653,
"pruned": true,
"pruneheight": 0,
"automatic_pruning": true,
"prune_target_size": 1999634432,
"warnings": [
]
}

[NotATether]

ANNOUNCEMENT

Friends, as you all know, the Bitcoin Node Challenge is a very popular place for members who want to run a node to receive their first merits. To date, over 170 users have successfully synced a Bitcoin node, thereby strengthening the network. Many Jr. Members, Members, and Full Member ranks were created in the process.

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that merit abusers are inside this thread, and after further investigation, some users have defrauded the challenge by running nodes for a second time. Additionally, some of these users have deleted their old reports in an attempt to conceal this information from me. These users are:

Littlemini (1) (2)
Litzki1990 (1) (2)
Unity for Humanity (1) (2)
bitcoin_mining (1) (2)

I am disappointed in the conduct of these users, and it leaves me no other choice but to banish them from all present and future competitions I run. This decision was not taken lightly, and other managers are encouraged to check this activity for themselves and use their own discretion before accepting these users. Any alt accounts of these users, if found, will also be expelled.

This flagrant abuse of merit will not be tolerated.

For everyone else, the challenge continues as normal. An automated program is now in place that will detect any attempts to enroll twice.

Happy Node Running,
-NotATether

PS. This decision is final and cannot be appealed.

[mikel_012]

Day 12:

Code:

{
  "chain": "main",
  "blocks": 894284,
  "headers": 894284,
  "bestblockhash": "000000000000000000018c09b4accd0a999e8e656b05b33ccaf38451ec910dd2",
  "difficulty": 123234387977050.9,
  "time": 1745821214,
  "mediantime": 1745816346,
  "verificationprogress": 0.9999936672145407,
  "initialblockdownload": false,
  "chainwork": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000bf1295e4b53dcbccb5a3bbfa",
  "size_on_disk": 1901871757,
  "pruned": true,
  "pruneheight": 893366,
  "automatic_pruning": true,
  "prune_target_size": 1999634432,
  "warnings": [
  ]
}

[bitcoin_mining]

ANNOUNCEMENT

Friends, as you all know, the Bitcoin Node Challenge is a very popular place for members who want to run a node to receive their first merits. To date, over 170 users have successfully synced a Bitcoin node, thereby strengthening the network. Many Jr. Members, Members, and Full Member ranks were created in the process.

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that merit abusers are inside this thread, and after further investigation, some users have defrauded the challenge by running nodes for a second time. Additionally, some of these users have deleted their old reports in an attempt to conceal this information from me. These users are:

Littlemini (1) (2)
Litzki1990 (1) (2)
Unity for Humanity (1) (2)
bitcoin_mining (1) (2)

I am disappointed in the conduct of these users, and it leaves me no other choice but to banish them from all present and future competitions I run. This decision was not taken lightly, and other managers are encouraged to check this activity for themselves and use their own discretion before accepting these users. Any alt accounts of these users, if found, will also be expelled.

This flagrant abuse of merit will not be tolerated.

For everyone else, the challenge continues as normal. An automated program is now in place that will detect any attempts to enroll twice.

Happy Node Running,
-NotATether

PS. This decision is final and cannot be appealed.

Before running the challenge, you should have confirmed that users will be red tagged if they do it multiple times. I did what I did in front of everyone and I submitted a report here for 14 consecutive days. Since I have submitted the report for 14 consecutive days, you should have warned me about this during these 14 days and not given me any merit. If I had done this after you had banned me, you could have given me a red tag but I did not get any warning and you gave me a red tag after giving me merit. I request you that since I was not aware of the matter or there was no such matter presented on the first page, I would expect another opportunity from you.

To incentivize people to run a node, the wonderful folks at BC.Game are sponsoring a merit challenge. Run Bitcoin Core on your computer for 14 days, to receive 14 merits from me!

Challenge Rules:

• This challenge is open for anyone with <1000 merit, subject to the requirements below.
• You must have at least 30 activity and 50 posts to participate.
• "Brand New" rank accounts are not allowed to particpate.
• You need to download Bitcoin Core (latest version is strongly recommended) and run bitcoind, the bitcoin daemon, for at least 14 days.
  
• The node must be running on mainnet, which is the default setting. Alternative blockchains like testnet are not allowed.
• Every 24 hours, you need to run bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo and paste the output here in code-blocks like below. This is to prove that you are actually running a node.
  
  
  Code:

  {
    "chain" : "str",
    "blocks" : n,
    "headers" : n,
    "bestblockhash" : "str",
    "difficulty" : n,
    "mediantime" : n,
    "verificationprogress" : n,
    "initialblockdownload" : true|false,
    "chainwork" : "hex",
    "size_on_disk" : n,
    "pruned" : true|false,
    "pruneheight" : n,
    "automatic_pruning" : true|false,
    "prune_target_size" : n,
    "softforks" : {
      "xxxx" : {
        "type" : "str",
        "bip9" : {
          "status" : "str",
          "bit" : n,
          "start_time" : xxx,
          "timeout" : xxx,
          "since" : n,
          "statistics" : {
            "period" : n,
            "threshold" : n,
            "elapsed" : n,
            "count" : n,
            "possible" : true|false
          }
        },
        "height" : n,
        "active" : true|false
      },
      ...
    },
    "warnings" : "str"
  }
  
  

  
  If running the GUI version of Core, you MUST use the console to run gtblockchaininfo:
   
  1. Open Bitcoin Core or run bitcoin-qt.
  2. Go to Window > Console or press Ctrl - T.
  3. In the console, type getblockchaininfo and copy the output to your Bitcointalk post. The text you need to copy is the white (or black) text under the word "getblockchaininfo":
  
  
  
  Please do not copy any of the other text in the window. Only the output.
  
  Screenshots are no longer accepted as of now. Please do not post a screenshot - I'll just ignore it/tell you to copy the text output.
  
  
• It is alright if you forget to do a 24-hour update but don't give me just one or two updates and expect a reward for that.
• "Merit begging" posts will be deleted.
• You may run with any other configuration options as you like, such as pruning.
• Nodes that have synced at least 99% of the blockchain (verificationprogress field in the output) will be given 14 merits. You will not get any merits unless your chain is near-fully synced.
• Do not enroll alt accounts.
• To join, start a bitcoin node and paste the output of bitcoin-cli getblockchain info here. That will be considered the first day.
• If your account gets banned by the administration, you will be removed from the challenge.
• Warning: If you are caught Photoshopping or otherwise falsifying your report, you will be removed immediately and I will give you a negative tag.
  
• Failure to post a report within 30 days may lead to your removal from this challenge. Please communicate all delays/absentia to me to avoid being removed.

.
FAQ:

Can I join this challenge even if I am already running a node?

Yes, subject to the conditions above.

Help! I don't have enough disk space to download the blockchain!

Open a file browser, go to Bitcoin's data directory, create or edit a file named bitcoin.conf and add the following contents:

Code:

# Prune blockchain to 20,000MB (you may use a different value)
prune=20000

Then restart Bitcoin Core.

My node crashed! Do I have to start over?

Yes, but the progress day will be preserved.

How can I make Bitcoin Core sync faster?

If you have 16GB of spare RAM or larger, open the bitcoin.conf file and add the following line:

Code:

dbcache=16384  # 16GB

Then restart Bitcoin Core. You should notice much less disk activity.

Bitcoin Core is showing a small window with a message that says "Replaying blocks".

You must wait for it to finish. It is fixing up its block database from an abrupt shutdown. This screen does not count towards your progress.

Do I need to create a wallet with my username on it before I can participate?

No, you don't!


I reserve the right to modify the rules or end this challenge at any time, with immediate effect, for whatever reason.

Good luck, and happy node running!

Where is it written here that a member cannot run this challenge more than once, or where is it written here that a member will be given a red tag if he runs this challenge more than once. I think if it was mentioned like this or if someone knew like this then someone would not have taken such a big risk to their account for just 14 merits. I should have been warned about this before sending the merits.

[NotATether]

Before running the challenge, you should have confirmed that users will be red tagged if they do it multiple times.

Sorry but that is not an excuse. You may find such a rule here:

• Do not enroll alt accounts.

To enroll yourself twice is an even worse version of this. Someone trying to cheat with alt accounts is at least attempting to use different accounts. Had I noticed your attempting to join a second time, you would not have been accepted in the first place.

[bitcoin_mining]

Before running the challenge, you should have confirmed that users will be red tagged if they do it multiple times.

Sorry but that is not an excuse. You may find such a rule here:

• Do not enroll alt accounts.

To enroll yourself twice is an even worse version of this. Someone trying to cheat with alt accounts is at least attempting to use different accounts. Had I noticed your attempting to join a second time, you would not have been accepted in the first place.

I'm telling you that too, it wasn't explicitly stated, and I've been filing reports here regularly like everyone else. If someone had warned me, I would have stopped right away. 
Now that I did this without realizing it, please give me a chance and look at it with forgiveness.