Basic script to set up a Bitcoin Unlimited full node on an Ubuntu cloud server

bitcoin-unlimited-full-node

# Instructions:
# 1) Set up a VM or server running Ubuntu, and make sure port 8333 is open
# 2) Run this script in a bash environment.

# More complete steps at https://gist.github.com/romanz/17ff716f13a34df49ff4

# Basic installations
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin-unlimited/bu-ppa -y
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install bitcoind bitcoin-qt -y
sudo apt-get clean

# Set up basic restart on reboot, as well as log rotations
echo "@reboot bitcoind -daemon -disablewallet
@daily logrotate $HOME/.bitcoin/utils/logrotate.conf" | crontab -

mkdir ~/.bitcoin/utils --parents
echo "\"$HOME/.bitcoin/debug.log\" {
        daily
        missingok
        rotate 5
        copytruncate
        compress
}" > ~/.bitcoin/utils/logrotate.conf

# Could add bandwidth limiting code here. Not doing that for now

# Now run the bitcoin full node daemon
bitcoind -daemon -disablewallet