Topic: [BitcoinTalk Node Tutorial #5] Hosting a Monero node on the same machine - page 2. (Read 306 times)

It would be interesting to add a few details in terms of requirements (computing and storage) to the top of the guide.

I remember fondly the days when people downloaded Bitcoin Core, back when it was the default wallet to run on your daily driver laptop, coming back a few days later to 'full hard drive' notifications from their operating system..

Especially, when someone is already running Bitcoin Core on the same machine and maybe even chose their SSD to fit a certain number of years worth of Bitcoin blockchain on it.

I just remembered that I forgot to write about allowing incoming connections on 18080 and 18089 on my node's firewall. I will add it at the beginning of my tutorial. Take into consideration that I have used 18089 but the default for the RPC commands is 18080. Anyway, thanks for the comment and the reminder.

Great job with this tutorial apogio.

Is important to mention that you can run bitcoin and monero on the same raspberry pi because the nodes run on a different port, some altcoins uses the same port than bitcoin and that can give use some problems but we can modify those ports in the config file and that should fix the problem.

And for those who want to test this tutorial but don't have a R.Pi then feel free to try in your PC. you can download the source for any os here:

https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/#cli

Links to other tutorials from the series:
[BitcoinTalk Node Tutorial #1] Running Bitcoin Core on Raspbian Lite (GUI-less) https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-node-tutorial-1-running-bitcoin-core-on-raspbian-lite-gui-less-5476754
[BitcoinTalk Node Tutorial #2] Installing Electrs from source https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-node-tutorial-2-installing-electrs-from-source-5477339
[BitcoinTalk Node Tutorial #3] Sparrow terminal / infinite Whirlpool mixes https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-node-tutorial-3-sparrow-terminal-infinite-whirlpool-mixes-5470024
[BitcoinTalk Node Tutorial #4] Connecting BISQ to our node https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-node-tutorial-4-connecting-bisq-to-our-node-5478756

Size required on disk:

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Hosting a Monero node on the same machine

As I have mentioned in various places in this forum, I am a huge fun of Monero. So, without further delay, let's run a monero node on our Raspberry Pi.

Configuring Firewall to allow incoming connections on ports 18080 & 18089

I am using ufw for this tutorial. So the command should be:


Downloading & Installing Monero binaries

We will download the binaries in our Downloads folder and we will install them.


Now, all the binaries are install in our /usr/local/bin directory.

Let's check if they work using the command


It should print an output that displays the available options for monerod binary.

Configuring Monero node

We are almost ready to roll, but we need to create the configuration file for our node. We will create it in our external SSD, in the path /media/apogio/BTC/monero.


Now let's paste the following data inside the file:


The last 2 lines will be removed after the initial blockchain synchronization.

Let's start our node by running the following:


Now monero runs on the background, downloading the blockchain. We can easily check the status by running:


It will return something like the following example:


That's it, we are now running a monero node.

Connecting Monero GUI wallet to our node

The final step is to connect a wallet to our node. Of course we could use the monero-wallet-cli binary, but for our tutorial we will connect the Monero GUI wallet to our node.

After downloading the appropriate version for our OS, we will need to choose the "Advanced mode".



Create a new wallet:



Then head over to the node settings and simply add the IP where the node is hosted and the port.