bitcoin

Observations on initial block download and fullnode requirements, 2022 to 2025

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Tor is enabled, but I thought it can download via both clearnet and Tor.

Here are my bitcoin.conf settings.  Let me know if there's anything I should change:

```
# RaspiBolt: bitcoind configuration
# /home/bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

# Bitcoin daemon
server=1
txindex=1

# Allow creation of legacy wallets (required for JoinMarket)
deprecatedrpc=create_bdb

# Network
listen=1
listenonion=1
proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
bind=127.0.0.1

# Activate v2 P2P
v2transport=1

# Connections
rpcauth=<replace with your own auth line generated by rpcauth.py>
zmqpubrawblock=tcp://127.0.0.1:28332
zmqpubrawtx=tcp://127.0.0.1:28333
whitelist=download@127.0.0.1          # for Electrs

# Raspberry Pi optimizations
maxconnections=40
maxuploadtarget=5000

# Initial block download optimizations
dbcache=4000
blocksonly=1
```