my goal is to set up a full bitcoin node. This is my third try, please help.
Bitcoin core version: 24.0.1
Hardware spec: MacBook Pro late 2011 i5 4cpu, 4GB ram, 500GB HDD,
Software: fully formatted with OS linux ubuntu LTS 22.04 minimal installation.
Internet: 500MB wifi download conecction. 150MB upload.
I also set up in ./bitcoin with nano, a bitcoin.conf with settings :
- server=1
- txindex=1
- daemon=1
- rpcport=8332
- rpcbind=0.0.0.0
- rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
- rpcallowip=10.0.0.0/8
- rpcallowip=172.0.0.0/8
- rpcallowip=192.0.0.0/8
- zmqpubrawblock=tcp://0.0.0.0:28332
- zmqpubrawtx=tcp://0.0.0.0:28333
- zmqpubhashblock=tcp://0.0.0.0:28334
- whitelist=127.0.0.1
- rpcauth=bitcoin:[output of rpcauth.py]
So, when I use bitcoind to start bitcoin core, I do not know why it just randomly stops downloading the blockchain at certain blocks and the window terminal closes itself. This issue started around blocks of 2015-09. Also, I should say that sometimes it takes less than a minute and sometimes could be running for 30 mins or more and then shutdown again.
After this, I am opening a new tab, then I use bicoind, bitcoin-cli stop and then again bitcoind to run it back up again. (I do this because I dont know if I need to start and close it right before running it again).
As I can't be every minute running all the time the core download, I would like to ask for help due to, I would like to identify the issue in order to just wait it to download and not be every minute running it:
- It is my hardware?
- It is the peer conection?
- My OS, my btc core version...?
- Etc...