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How to upgrade to Bitcoin Knots from Core
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| I was able to accomplish the upgrade from Core v26.0 to Bitcoin Knots 28.1 with the one-line command on Debian GNU/Linux x86-64: | |
| $ sudo rsync --ignore-times rsync://peer.dedyn.io:1873/knots/* /usr/local/bin | |
| All data (blocks, chainstate) were preserved and directly processed by Bitcoin Knots without re-downloading them. | |
| In case of Ubuntu, Bitcoin Knots is easily installed by the PPA: | |
| 1. $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:luke-jr/bitcoinknots | |
| 2. $ sudo apt update | |
| 3. $ sudo apt install bitcoind | |
| (optionally) 4. $ sudo apt install bitcoin-qt | |
| There are installers for MacOS and Windows on the website: "https://bitcoinknots.org/#download". | |
| There are guides for other platforms, e.g. Umbrel, Start9 at: "https://wtfhappenedinfeb2023.com/what-you-can-do-about-it/as-a-noderunner#install-run-knots" and "https://docs.mempool.guide/". | |
| Additionally, I would recommend amending the configuration file bitcoin.conf with the setting "datacarrier=0" in order to reject spam, e.g. | |
| $ cd ~/.bitcoin | |
| $ mv bitcoin.conf bitcoin.conf.bak | |
| $ echo "datacarrier=0" > bitcoin.conf | |
| $ sed 's/datacarrier=.*/datacarrier=0/g' bitcoin.conf.bak >> bitcoin.conf |
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