PSA: Add a Full Node for just $19/year!

[cypherdoc]

You can check your RPCUSER/PASS at

Code:

vim ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

You need those to match what is in the btc-update.py script.

you should add that to your tute.  i don't remember it being in there.

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[chek2fire]

What it means if i see this message with bitcoind getinfo?

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Aborted

[cypherdoc]

What it means if i see this message with bitcoind getinfo?

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what():  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
Aborted

i've seen that a coupla times.  do this:

Code:

sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
sudo locale-gen it_IT it_IT.UTF-8
sudo locale-gen xx_xx xx_XX.UTF-8 ...
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

[chek2fire]

I set my timezone to greece. I dont know if that have do a mess. When i setup to reconfigure locale i have that

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "el_GR.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Generating locales...
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  it_IT.ISO-8859-1... up-to-date
  it_IT.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

[cypherdoc]

I set my timezone to greece. I dont know if that have do a mess. When i setup to reconfigure locale i have that

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "el_GR.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Generating locales...
  en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
  en_US.UTF-8... done
  it_IT.ISO-8859-1... up-to-date
  it_IT.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

i'm not sure i understand the problem.

you're able to connect using vnstat and your node is being seen on bitnodes. 

the rpc gui isn't working yet but that can take some time.  but make sure you enter the rpcuser and rpcpassword into the *.py file from the *.conf file Morblias reference above.

[chek2fire]

Ok i have fix the problem
I run a

sudo update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8


after reboot and then a reconfigure of locales and now with the command bitcoind getinfo i see my first full bitcoin node that running

[chek2fire]

Ok last question is what i have to edit here

access = AuthServiceProxy("http://RPCUSER:PRCPASSWORD@127.0.0.1:8332")

in the ip adress. do i have to type my server adress and port that is 8333?
And what i have to type in that line

ff.write("<h1>Bitcoin Node: 192.227.137.5:8333<br \></h1>")

and there do i have to type the same?

[cypherdoc]

Ok last question is what i have to edit here

access = AuthServiceProxy("http://RPCUSER:PRCPASSWORD@127.0.0.1:8332")

in the ip adress. do i have to type my server adress and port that is 8333?
And what i have to type in that line

ff.write("<h1>Bitcoin Node: 192.227.137.5:8333<br \></h1>")

and there do i have to type the same?

those are what you change.

[AdamSC1]

Does anyone know if this pricing is locked in year over year? If so I'm going to have to set up a ton of these!

Cheers,
Adam

[chek2fire]

Ok finally i have setup my first bitcoin node. Thx for the nice guide guys. Here is my adress

http://69.12.86.115/

[phillipsjk]

Does anyone know if this pricing is locked in year over year? If so I'm going to have to set up a ton of these!

Cheers,
Adam

There is some risk concentrating them all in the same data-center.

I have idle long-term plans to set up a Bitcoin node in Iceland, which I believe to be relatively Bitcoin friendly. Would be valuable if Bitcoin is ever banned at home.

[PeterReid]

Thats a great price!

[chek2fire]

With vnstat i see that server has 35gb in two days. I think the limit of the server is about 1 terra. Is there any way to upgrade this when the server go out of space?


http://69.12.86.115/vnstat/

[Morblias]

With vnstat i see that server has 35gb in two days. I think the limit of the server is about 1 terra. Is there any way to upgrade this when the server go out of space?


http://69.12.86.115/vnstat/

The first couple days will have a really high bandwidth due to it downloading the entire blockchain, but after that is caught up you won't use much bandwidth. This is by month (April started the 14th) on one of my nodes: http://192.3.30.206/vnstat/index.php?if=venet0&graph=large&style=light&page=m I think I used that one as a ssh tunnel a few days also, so the bandwidth for just a node will be a lot lower.

[chek2fire]

Ok thx! and gz for the great work! Now i am looking for a vps greek server because i see that here in greece we dont have enough bitcoin nodes. The prices, fees are high here in greece for that serrvers but i think i will find something. Thx again

[silversurfer1958]

You can buy cheap computers for $20, maybe even use Raspberry Pi with a Hard drive as nodes.
Why can;t we have Sw to use up old Equipment to run as nodes,
I suppose we can, but how do we do it, using up spare  bandwidth of our main PC.

Blocks are surely just hashed transactions, IE data.
Why can't a node only download, for example, only blocks that begin with 'A' as the first Alphabetic Char.
That would chop the Blockchain up into 26 Pieces.
52 if we use uppercase and lowercase.
And if we made it two Chars, it would chop the blockchain up 52 x 52 which is. 2704 so our 20Gb Blockchain is now a few Mb.

I suppose the reason why this wont work is because, If my node only has Blocks beginning 'AH' (for example ) the transaction we wish to verify may need to be verified against transactions contained in other blocks beginning 'VW' (for example) and so I can't verify that transaction because my node doesn't store those blocks.     
So, I've chopped up the blockchain into much more manageable and decentralised portions,
but now I don't know where all the data is I need to verify my new transaction.

Is there a solution to this ?

[DeathAndTaxes]

Why can't a node only download, for example, only blocks that begin with 'A' as the first Alphabetic Char.
...
Is there a solution to this ?

No.  What you describe is a very crude DHT but even a proper DHT doesn't provide for independent verification.  The purpose of full nodes is to acts as INDEPENDENT verifiers they can't do that if they aren't independent.  If you just want to reduce your personal resource requirements use a lite client (SPV).

[chek2fire]

I have try to setup and my cloud server but i dont know that is working. I have done everything in the guide but i dont think i have setup my server. In vnstat i dont see any bitcoin traffic

http://69.12.86.115/vnstat/

how can i see that bitcoin node is runing? And what i have to set in  RPCUSER, RPCPASSWORD, IP Address to /usr/local/bin/btc-update.py? My server password and adress or something else? Thx for any advice

edit: ok i see trafic now in vnstat i have change the eth0 with venet0 but i cant see bitcoin node interface. I have look with top and bitcoind is runnign and here when i write my adress

https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/

i see a green quote with 69.12.86.115:8333 /Satoshi:0.8.1/ but i dont know what that means

I've just connected to your node and I am downloading the blockchain from you (and only you) - you are a node.

this is good or bad?

[Morblias]

It's good. Means your node is working and others can connect to you.

[dancupid]

I have try to setup and my cloud server but i dont know that is working. I have done everything in the guide but i dont think i have setup my server. In vnstat i dont see any bitcoin traffic

http://69.12.86.115/vnstat/

how can i see that bitcoin node is runing? And what i have to set in  RPCUSER, RPCPASSWORD, IP Address to /usr/local/bin/btc-update.py? My server password and adress or something else? Thx for any advice

edit: ok i see trafic now in vnstat i have change the eth0 with venet0 but i cant see bitcoin node interface. I have look with top and bitcoind is runnign and here when i write my adress

https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/

i see a green quote with 69.12.86.115:8333 /Satoshi:0.8.1/ but i dont know what that means

I've just connected to your node and I am downloading the blockchain from you (and only you) - you are a node.

this is good or bad?

It's good! - thanks for supporting the network.