Ah, fair enough. I use Gemini pro. It told me to mess with a bunch of config files. Eric was just like, yeah no, don't do that
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9 minutes ago
bn --help
expatriotic is me
9 minutes ago
Gemini says now I run:
source ~/.bashrc
mkdir -p ~/.config/bitcoin
nano ~/.config/bitcoin/bn.cfg
[database]
directory = /home/satoshi/libbitcoin-data
[node]
network = mainnet
mkdir ~/libbitcoin-data
screen -S node
bn
evoskuil
8 minutes ago
Ignore gemini
expatriotic is me
8 minutes ago
Will do.
evoskuil
8 minutes ago
bn --settings shows all of the current config file settings. you don't need to set any of them.
2:22
bn --hardware (or bn -d) shows the build hardware optimizations.
2:23
bn --config path allows you to specify a config file to run with. (edited)
2:23
A bunch of the others are just for development diagnostics.
2:24
But you can try it out by just running bn with nothing else.
2:25
These are runtime options you can type at the console with the node running:
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Toggle: [a]pplication
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Toggle: [n]ews
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Toggle: [s]ession
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Toggle: [p]rotocol
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Toggle: [x]proxy
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Toggle: [r]emote
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Toggle: [f]ault
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Toggle: [q]uitting
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Toggle: [o]bjects
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Toggle: [v]erbose
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Option: [b]ackup the store
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Option: [c]lose the node
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Option: [e]rrors in store
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Option: [g]o network communication
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Option: [h]old network communication
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Option: [i]nfo about store
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Option: [m]enu of options and toggles
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Option: [t]est built-in case
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Option: [w]ork distribution
2025-10-11T19:24:23Z.0 Option: [z]eroize disk full error
2:25
You can bring that up when it's running by hitting m <enter>.
2:26
toggles are logging enable/disable, options are other things.
2:29
What do you get from bn -d?"
