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Bitcoind Systemd script
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bitcoind.service
[Unit]
Description=Bitcoin's distributed currency daemon
After=network.target
[Service]
User=pi
Group=pi
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/lib/bitcoind/bitcoind.pid
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/bitcoind -daemon
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/bitcoin-cli stop
KillMode=process
Restart=on-failure
TimeoutSec=120
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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Can use Type=simple and no -daemon along with -nodebuglogfile to have it use journald, saving that disk access, and also not needing bitcoin-cli stop.

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