106 sats \ 2 replies \ @IgnaciobTato 24 May \ on: Stacker Saloon
Some Bitcoin Shortcuts for your Node.
bitcoin-cli getblockcount Quickly verify blockchain tip (last block).
bitcoin-cli getmempoolinfo Information about your local mempool.
bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo A bitcoiner's favorite: sums up all utxos in order to get the current bitcoin supply.
bitcoin-cli -netinfo 4 Shows a live dashboard of your peer connections and the Bitcoin Core version they're on.
bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction <txid> true Shows information about a specific transaction and you can check if it has been included in a block and how many confirmation it has. (easy way to verify your own txs without loading a wallet)
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @DiedOnTitan 25 May
This was useful to me, some observations and questions:
bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo
...Wondering what it would take to get a progress bar on this one.
$ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo
{
  "height": 845024,
  "bestblock": "000000000000000000003717c032ce1934f194b7079ea6182e477fdaaab27413",
  "txouts": 182090311,
  "bogosize": 14002428244,
  "hash_serialized_3": "739f6cf2037b4c8222891be62511f7e7980f64cd1c53bee355222845ebdbba72",
  "total_amount": 19702983.61755659,
  "transactions": 125756341,
  "disk_size": 12190623949
}

$ bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo
{
  "height": 845024,
  "bestblock": "000000000000000000003717c032ce1934f194b7079ea6182e477fdaaab27413",
  "txouts": 182090311,
  "bogosize": 14002428244,
  "hash_serialized_3": "739f6cf2037b4c8222891be62511f7e7980f64cd1c53bee355222845ebdbba72",
  "total_amount": 19702983.61755659,
  "transactions": 125756341,
  "disk_size": 12203595989
}
Ran this twice after a pause of about a minute. Curious, is that delta in disk_size simply a few mempool additions, or something else?
bitcoin-cli -netinfo 4
I see no difference adding an integer at all. Is this expected?
$ bitcoin-cli -netinfo
Bitcoin Core client v26.0.0 - server 70016/Satoshi:26.0.0/

         ipv4    ipv6   total   block
in         52       0      52
out        10       0      10       2
total      62       0      62

Local addresses: n/a

$ bitcoin-cli -netinfo 4
Bitcoin Core client v26.0.0 - server 70016/Satoshi:26.0.0/

         ipv4    ipv6   total   block
in         52       0      52
out        10       0      10       2
total      62       0      62

Local addresses: n/a
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @IgnaciobTato 25 May
Thanks for sharing. I'm still learning as well. Hope a more advance user can answer this.
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