Topic: Want to play with bitcoin cli, no harddrive space (Read 176 times)
And don't forget to obtain testnet coins, there are many faucets such as Testnet Faucet
Are there any good resources on how to get up and running with the testnet
I believe you just need to run it with the -testnet argument flag.That or add testnet=1 to your bitcoin.conf file.
Either way works, when doing a lot of testing I tend to put in the conf file that way if I start / stop it a lot I can't mess up and forget to put the argument in the command line.
-Dave
Are there any good resources on how to get up and running with the testnet
I believe you just need to run it with the -testnet argument flag. 
How much space do you have? You can always use testnet instead of mainnet.
Commands are the same but the blockchain is a fraction of the size and you can get some testnet coins for free instead of risking real coins while playing with the cli.
-Dave
Commands are the same but the blockchain is a fraction of the size and you can get some testnet coins for free instead of risking real coins while playing with the cli.
-Dave
I have up to 50gb, seems the size of the bitcoin test net is ~14gb.
If they have the same command, this will be a great solution.
Are there any good resources on how to get up and running with the testnet
How much space do you have? You can always use testnet instead of mainnet.
Commands are the same but the blockchain is a fraction of the size and you can get some testnet coins for free instead of risking real coins while playing with the cli.
-Dave
Commands are the same but the blockchain is a fraction of the size and you can get some testnet coins for free instead of risking real coins while playing with the cli.
-Dave
You can add -prune=4000 to your config file and it'll only store 4000 megabytes worth of data on your sad as apposed to the traditional ~300gb as the chain stands now... Make sure you backup the drive and are happy to lose it just in case as it's quite an intensive operation.
I would like to add that after enabling prune mode, you won't be able to use -txindex, -rescan and also importwallet.
You can add -prune=4000 to your config file and it'll only store 4000 megabytes worth of data on your sad as apposed to the traditional ~300gb as the chain stands now... Make sure you backup the drive and are happy to lose it just in case as it's quite an intensive operation.
I am following the mastering bitcoin book, want to play with the bitcoin cli but I don't have enough hard drive space to download the entire blockchain. Do I have other options or do I have to get a new ssd.
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