Quote from: nc50lc on Today at 05:25:43 AM

Quote from: bittyuser on September 29, 2024, 11:00:34 PM

Btw how to avoid Tor for faster download? Do I need to comment out the network portion of my bitcoin.conf and stop tor.service from running? I really wanna get this download faster.

It isn't the issue but if you really want to test, you can add these to your bitcoin.conf file or use as command line arg:

Code:

onlynet=ipv4
onlynet=ipv6
listenonion=0

"onlynet=ipv4" and "onlynet=ipv6" limits your node's outbound connection to those networks, and..
"listenonion=0" disables inbound connections via Tor.

Of course, don't forget to restart Bitcoin Core after changing the settings for it to apply.

This is how my bitcoin.conf looks like:

Code:

# Network
onlynet=ipv4
# onlynet-ipv6
listen=1
listenonion=0
#proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
#bind=127.0.0.1

# Raspberry Pi optimizations
maxconnections=40
maxuploadtarget=5000

# Initial block download optimizations
dbcache=2000
blocksonly=1

I observer the downloads and verification is slightly better. Also I stopped tor.service. Not sure if that played a part.