Greetings, I am downloading Bitcoin Core on to my Raspberry Pi with Umbrel. My question is, are there settings I should change that would help the download speed? I see other people saying it takes days to download, mine is measured in weeks and months. It's been probably 6 weeks and I am at 80%. Should I turn off Clarinet or Tor? What are the risks? This last 20% will probably take another month as it slowing down I suppose with bigger block sizes. It's frustrating. Thanks for any help in advance. BTW, I'm not a programmer and not super advanced, I'm mid.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @tenshi 28 Sep
It took me 6 days with 11th gen i5 with 8gb ram, but my internet is garbage. Maybe the Pi can't handle it with all the spam. Mechanic has been talking about this.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 27 Sep
What version RPi? What version Bitcoin Core? What version Umbrel? Is it Umbrel OS, or Umbrel services running on a linux OS?
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 27 Sep
It depends on the speed of your internet connection.
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74 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 27 Sep
Internet speed is a factor, but in this case it's not. When you say there's a month to go, it's a month of the blockchain, not the time left to download.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Slestak_Jack OP 27 Sep
No. It will take another month to finish downloading the last 20%.
My internet speed is close to gig speed btw.
This is the 2nd time I've done this. My mistake was that the first time I pruned the node which would then not work for many of the Lightning add ons. It took about 3 months to download last time. Could it be that my memory device has very slow write capabilities?
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 27 Sep
Are you using an HDD or SSD?
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19 sats \ 0 replies \ @Slestak_Jack OP 27 Sep
I'm pretty sure it's SSD. Bought it a couple years ago. It's a Seagate portable 1TB.
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