run bitcoind without mining #10499

is it possible to run bitcoind as a wallet only? i want to use it with bitcoin-cli it takes all the server specs

Which version of Bitcoin Core are you running? According to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.13.0.md#mining, all versions after 0.13.0 have the internal miner removed. I.e. you should not be able to call the RPC getgenerate

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is it possible to run bitcoind as a wallet only? i want to use it with bitcoin-cli it takes all the server specs

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@muhammednagy: I guess you are looking to run without validation or with "simple verification / client mode". This is currently not possible.

Once you initially start Bitcoin-Core, it does download the complete blockchain ~100GB and verifies (almost) all transactions. This takes time... and can take up to serval days.

You can enable pruning (auto-cut off old blocks) with starting with -prune=550 (or add prune=550 to the bitcoin.conf). This will reduce the disk space to ~3-4GB (instead of 100GB+).

Running just the wallet is not possible.

i'm running 0.14.1-xenial1

what I mean is that it downloads the full node and take most of my server resources

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Which version of Bitcoin Core are you running? According to

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.13.0.md#mining , all versions after 0.13.0 have the internal miner removed. I.e. you should not be able to call the RPC getgenerate

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okay thanks, i will try this

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 5:39 PM Muhammed Nagy muhammed.nagy.one@gmail.com wrote:

i'm running 0.14.1-xenial1

what I mean is that it downloads the full node and take most of my server resources

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 5:33 PM MarcoFalke notifications@github.com wrote:

Which version of Bitcoin Core are you running? According to

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.13.0.md#mining , all versions after 0.13.0 have the internal miner removed. I.e. you should not be able to call the RPC getgenerate

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don't you intend to make client mode?

@muhammednagy: once your have synced the blockchain up to the chain tip, the CPU and disk consumption will go down... There is a client mode proposal: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9483