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Hannu

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Quote from: Wed on August 28, 2015, 02:22:57 AM

I have a nearly unused server. So I had the idea to run a fullnode on that server (bitcoind) and connect my local bitcoin-qt to that remote node.
Is that possible? If yes what I have to do to getting that working?
Would be great if someone could help me

Thanks!

If you have windows , all you need to install latest bitcoin core.

Ubuntu allso is easy to install bitcoin core.
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rjmacarthy

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Can't you just download the block chain and use JSONRPC to contact your server Bitcoin-cli instance?

How to install:

http://blog.cryptogrind.com/installing-bitcoin-on-ubuntu-command-line/

You can then use PHP or Node.js to contact the wallet over JSONRPC from a locally built application.

I can help you with this if you need.

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Quote from: Wed on August 28, 2015, 05:14:54 PM

Quote from: BurtW on August 28, 2015, 12:19:07 PM

Sounds like you want a lightweight client and then hard code it to access your own personal server. I have not done that but I am sure someone on here has.

That's exactly what I want to do :-)

@knightdk
I have had already the same idea but I think that's no good solution.

The only wallet I know that does this is mSIGNA.

coinpr0n

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With the 'bitcoin-cli' version you can specify 'rpcconnect=...' to a remote server in the bitcoin.conf. I tried with bitcoin-qt but it didn't work. I do not think it's possible without having a network share, synced dropbox(?) or something then using datadir.

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Quote from: BurtW on August 28, 2015, 12:19:07 PM

Sounds like you want a lightweight client and then hard code it to access your own personal server. I have not done that but I am sure someone on here has.

That's exactly what I want to do :-)

@knightdk
I have had already the same idea but I think that's no good solution.

BurtW

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Sounds like you want a lightweight client and then hard code it to access your own personal server. I have not done that but I am sure someone on here has.

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Quote from: Wed on August 28, 2015, 08:47:24 AM

My problem isn't setting up a fullnode. My problem is how can I contact my local bitcoin core with my remote full node (bitcoind) to get rid of my local blockchain.
I dont want to use a lightweight wallet and I dont want to store whole blockchain on my local machine.

I'm not sure if this is possible.

You could set up the data directory on that server as a network share and then set the data directory of your local bitcoin core to be that shared folder. It might run into some problems and I would advise against doing this. Otherwise, there is no way to connect Bitcoin Core to your server without having to download the entire blockchain.

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My problem isn't setting up a fullnode. My problem is how can I contact my local bitcoin core with my remote full node (bitcoind) to get rid of my local blockchain.
I dont want to use a lightweight wallet and I dont want to store whole blockchain on my local machine.

I'm not sure if this is possible.

BurtW

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I read this

https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node

and set up my full node in probably less than 15 minutes.

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I have a nearly unused server. So I had the idea to run a fullnode on that server (bitcoind) and connect my local bitcoin-qt to that remote node.
Is that possible? If yes what I have to do to getting that working?
Would be great if someone could help me

Thanks!

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