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Running a full bitcoin node on FreeNAS

Follow these steps to run a full Bitcoin node on your FreeNAS box!

Steps

Create a jail with static ip

Forward port 8333 to your jails static ip

SSH into jail and install bitcoin

pkg update

pkg upgrade

pkg install bitcoin

pkg install bitcoin-daemon

Fetch the start script and default config file

fetch -o /etc/rc.d/bitcoind https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/master/contrib/init/bitcoind.openrc

fetch -o /usr/local/etc/bitcoin.conf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/master/contrib/debian/examples/bitcoin.conf

Update rpcpassword in /usr/local/etc/bitcoin.conf and set txindex=1. You can generate a suitable password with openssl rand -base64 32

Enable bitcoin to run on startup and start it

sysrc bitcoind_enable=YES

service bitcoind start

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