Ordinals
Love them or hate them, ordinals are making lot of new people running full nodes.
I made a quick guide for Windows and Linux.
Install bitcoin core software in Windows.
Go to https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-24.0.1/ and install https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-24.0.1/bitcoin-24.0.1-win64-setup.exe
Check for newer versions on https://bitcoincore.org/bin/
At the time this guide was created 24.0.1 was the latest.
Install bitcoin-24.0.1-win64-setup.exe
In the windows search bar type
%APPDATA%
In the windows explorer you should see a folder Bitcoin. It there is none, create one.
Open that folder and create a file named bitcoin.conf with a text editor like notepad.
And copy paste the following:txindex=1
server=1
rpcbind=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=8332
rest=1
dbcache=16384
maxmempool=900
rpccookiefile=.cookie
Save the file and exit the text editor.
After creating the Bitcoin folder you can access it directly on windows search typing
%APPDATA%/BitcoinRun the bitcoin-qt software to start your node.
Or use the following commands to start and stop the node on the command line
bitcoind and bitcoin-cli stopIf you don't have enought storage space on the
Drive C: or what to use another hard drive. Just add this to bitcoin.confdatadir=D:\BitcoinAnd create the folder
D:\BitcoinThis is in a example. The folder
D:\Bitcoin will contain all the folders and files related to the bitcoin node. This folder will be used instead of the default one, %APPDATA%/BitcoinAnd put your
bitcoin.conf in D:\Bitcointoo.To start, stop and interact with the node since you are not using the default settings you need to add the parameter
-conf=D:\Bitcoin\bitcoin.confbitcoind -conf=D:\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf to start the node and bitcoin-cli -conf=D:\Bitcoin\bitcoin.conf stop to stop it.Install bitcoin core software in Linux.
$ mkdir ~/BITCOIN ; cd ~/BITCOIN/$ wget https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-24.0.1/bitcoin-24.0.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz $ wget https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-24.0.1/SHA256SUMS$ wget https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-24.0.1/SHA256SUMS.asc$ sha256sum --ignore-missing --check SHA256SUMS
bitcoin-24.0.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz: OK$ tar zpvfx bitcoin-24.0.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz$ ln -s bitcoin-24.0.1 bitcoin$ cd ; mkdir ~/bin/ ; cd ~/bin/$ ln -s ~/BITCOIN/bitcoin/bin/bitcoin-qt$ ln -s ~/BITCOIN/bitcoin/bin/bitcoind$ ln -s ~/BITCOIN/bitcoin/bin/bitcoin-cliEdit bitcoin.conf for ord software interaction.
Use CRTL + X do save and exit nano after adding this lines to bitcoin.conf
$ nano ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
txindex=1
server=1
rpcbind=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=8332
rest=1
dbcache=16384
maxmempool=900
daemon=1
rpccookiefile=.cookie
In Linux you can also add a parameter to setup a different folder than the default folder
datadir=/storage/bitcoin/
Or you can just use symlinks to the default folder. I use this last option.Start node.
$ bitcoind
Stop node.
$ bitcoin-cli stop
Ord software
And if are using ord software https://github.com/casey/ord since you aren't using the default settings of the bitcoin node. You also need to add the following parameter
--bitcoin-data-dir=D:\Bitcoin to the ord command.Like this:
ord --bitcoin-data-dir=D:\Bitcoin indexord --bitcoin-data-dir=D:\Bitcoin wallet createord --bitcoin-data-dir=D:\Bitcoin wallet balance